Harsh Chhaya

Some Lesser Known Facts About Harsh Chhaya

• Harsh Chhaya grew up in Gujarat.

• While he was in class 6, he performed in one of the school plays in which he delivered a 40-second dialogue. Since then, he started developing an interest in acting.

• After completing his class 10, he joined a painting class.

• He then joined a theatre group and performed in various theatre plays. A few months later, he started working as an assistant producer with one of his friends from the theatre group.

• A year later, he applied at Jamia University, but, he was rejected. A year later, he reapplied to the college.

• In his 20s, his mother asked him to join a typing class. One of his relatives advised him to start a desktop business. At that time, he used to think that he would buy a Xerox machine and set up his business.

• To make his career in acting, he shifted from Delhi to Mumbai with around Rs 9000.

• He has been featured in various TV commercials.

• Harsh has acted in a few English TV movies such as In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) and Code Name: Geronimo (2012).

  

• He has acted in many Hindi TV serials including Tehkikaat (1994), Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii (2004), Ghar Ek Sapna (2007), Balikha Vadhu (2014), and 24 Season 2 (2016).

  

• In the 1990s, he came into the limelight for playing the role of Krishnakant Trivedi (KT) in the Hindi TV serial Hasratein.

  

• He has acted in various Hindi films like Company (2002), Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007), Fashion (2008), Jolly LLB (2013), and Kill (2024).

  

• He has acted in a few Marathi films like Aevdhese Aabhal (2007) and A Rainy Day (2014).

  

• In 2009, he participated in the Hindi comedy show Comedy Circus 3.

  

• He directed the 2010 English short film A Puzzle.

• He has acted in films of a few other languages. Some of such films are Nobel Chor (2011; Bengali), Har Har Byomkesh (2015; Bengali), Shubh Aarambh (2017; Gujarati), and Byomkesh Gotro (2018; Bengali).

  

• In 2017, he was the narrator of the English TV series Those Who Made It.

• He worked as a writer-director in the 2018 Hindi film Khajoor Pe Atke.

  

• He has penned down the lyrics of the songs of the Hindi film Khajoor Pe Atke (2018). He also lent his voice to the song “Dhokha” from the film.

• Some of his Hindi web series are Rangbaaz (2019), Forbidden Love (2020), Mukhbir – The Story of a Spy (2022), P I Meena (2023), and Gyaarah Gyaarah (2024).

  

• In an interview, he shared that for the Hindi web series Gyaarah Gyaarah, he got Botox injections to look younger as his character in the series was a younger man.