PIX: Anushka Sharma's HOTTEST avatars

She may have started her career as the demure young wife of Shah Rukh Khan in Aditya Chopra's Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi but Anushka Sharma is quite a livewire.

In the last five years, the model-turned-actress has raised the mercury on celluloid and fashion magazines with her bold and beautiful avatars. Next, the super slender 24-year-old is set to flaunt her sweltering personality in back to back releases, Jab Tak Hai Jaan and Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola.

Here's a look at some of Anushka's HOTTEST avatars.

Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola

Anushka plays a bindaas babe in Vishal Bhardwaj's new dramedy co-starring Imran Khan and Pankaj Kapoor. Her personality is aptly established in the first trailer itself when the leggy actress steps out of a lake in nothing more than a nude-shade ganjee and boy shorts.

The swimsuit chronicles continues in another Yashraj offering where the beach sequence gives our lady abundant opportunity to flash her flat-screen tummy and never-ending legs in a bikini blouse and skimpy shorts.

As wedding planner Shruti in Band Baaja Baarat, Anuska doesn't get too many occasions to glam up. But when she does, the rising star wastes no time in slipping into a navel-flaunting number and groove to the hilt.

There! See what we mean? Then again, who's complaining?