Nakuul Mehta

Nakuul Mehta was born on 17 January 1983 in Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.[1] His father, Pratap Singh Mehta, is a veteran of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, while his great-great grandfather Laxmilal Mehta was the military-in-chief of the Mewar region.[2] He is a descendent of King Prithviraj Chauhan. He also has an elder sister, Prachi.

Mehta completed his Master of Commerce from Mumbai University. He was also trained in dance forms including jazz, hip hop, break, folk, salsa and contemporary. He is a trained ballroom dancer having learned under India's foremost ballroom teacher and Bollywood choreographer Sandip Soparrkar. He represented Maharashtra in the All India Dance Sport Federation in June 2011. He was a silver medalist in the Latin Ballroom Category and is a gold medal winner in the Standard Ballroom category.[3]

Mehta married singer Jankee Parekh on 28 January 2012.[4] The couple announced that they were expecting their first child via a social media post on 7 November 2020.The couple welcomed their first child a baby boy on 3 February 2021.[5]

Mehta made his television debut in 2012 with the role of Aditya Kumar in Star Plus's Pyaar Ka Dard Hai Meetha Meetha Pyaara Pyaara. The show proved to be a critical and commercial success and earned high TRPs, the show gave him a huge boost in the start of his TV career.[6]

He did commercials, music videos, and was associated with theatre for a long time. After juggling this with his modelling career, he made his film debut with a Telungu film, Indian Beauty. Later he played the character of Shekhar in Haal E Dil opposite Amita Pathak.[7] He also appeared in the short film Avant Garde, which was showcased at film festivals across the globe.[8] In 2015, Mehta hosted India's Got Talent 6.[9]

He was then seen in the web-series I Don't Watch TV, published on the platform Arre produced by Timbuktu Films. It is a satire on the Indian television industry and also stars Bollywood film critic Rajeev Masand.[10][11][12]

From 2016 to 2019, Mehta played Shivaay Singh Oberoi opposite Surbhi Chandna in Ishqbaaaz. Mehta also appeared in the show's spin-off, Dil Boley Oberoi. Just like his previous show, it also gained high TRPs and established him as a leading actor in Indian Television Industry. He recently appeared in short film called Ved and Arya in march 2020 , where he played character Ved opposite Sanaya Irani. He recently did an album on 12 poems named Poems For Democracy in collaboration with Ajay Singh and the same was released on Kommune, a platform for artists.

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