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Harsh Chhaya

movie Actor, Writer, Film Director cake 2 December 1966 (Friday) (Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India)
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Height

5' 8" (173 cm)

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Age

58

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Indian

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Basic Information

Date of Birth: 2 December 1966 (Friday)
Birthplace: Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
Nationality: Indian
Hometown: Bhavnagar, Gujarat

Family & Relationships

Marital Status: Married
Spouse: Sunita Sengupta

Education

Schools: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi
Colleges: A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Education: A Degree in Mass Communication

Lifestyle

Religion: Hinduism

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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).

    Code Name- Geronimo
    Code Name- Geronimo
  • 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).

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

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

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

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

    Harsh Chhaya in Comedy Circus 3
    Harsh Chhaya in 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).

    Byomkesh Gotro
    Byomkesh Gotro
  • 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.

    Khajoor Pe Atke
    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).

    Rangbaaz
    Rangbaaz
  • 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.

    Harsh Chhaya getting Botox
    Harsh Chhaya getting Botox

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