Malini Sharma is an Indian former model, actress, and art director, best known for her role as Malini Malik in the 2002 supernatural horror film Raaz. After a prominent career in the late 1990s as an indie-pop music video icon and television actress, she transitioned to off-camera work before leaving the entertainment industry entirely to focus on raising her family. She subsequently transitioned into sustainable entrepreneurship and founded "The Slow Local", an organic farmstay and slow-living project located in the Sahyadri Hills near Pune.