Sonali Raut

 is a contestant on Bigg Boss 8 (Hindi). She is well known for participating in Dance Ki Takkar 1 and later made her Bollywood debut in the film The Xpose.

Biography
Raut was born on 23 December 1990. She is the younger sister of the model Ujjwala Raut. Her father is a retired deputy Commissioner of Police.

Career
In 2010, Raut won a modeling assignment in the annual Kingfisher Calendar, which features models in swimsuits. In 2014, Raut starred in the Bollywood film The Xposé, playing the role of a movie star who is murdered. In an interview, she described Bollywood as "not very welcoming". She dropped a commitment to be in a film entitled 99% Useless Fellows, angering the Kannada film director S. K. Basheed, to act as a contestant in the Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss.

She became one of the contestants on Bigg Boss 8 and was evicted after a surprise vote decision, but was later brought back by the Bigg Boss. She was evicted again, along with Puneet Issar, after 105 days.