Karanvir Malhotra

Some Lesser Known Facts About Karanvir Malhotra

• In an interview when asked about his 2 a.m. friend, he mentioned his mother.

• During his school years, he was a well-behaved student as his mother was also a teacher in the same school.

  

• If he would not have been an actor, he would have been in the Indian army.

• He comes from an army background. His maternal grandfather retired as a Lt. Col from the Indian Army.

• He is fond of eating sweets.

• He was 19 when he shifted to Melbourne with his family.

• He has also performed at Melbourne’s oldest independent theatre Venue La Mama.

• His first advertisement was with the chocolate brand Cadbury.

  

• His first celebrity crush was Manisha Koirala.

• At the age of 12, he met his cricket idol, M.S. Dhoni.

  

• He has worked at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne as a background staff. It was at IFFM that he met Anil Kapoor, the producer of Selection Days.
  

  Anil Kapoor is the first ever celebrity I ever met in Mumbai. Earlier, once I worked for the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne. My job was to bring the celebrities to the venue. On that event, my first celeb face-off was with Anil sir,”

• To prepare for his role as Amar in the web series The Forgotten Army – Azaadi Ke Liye, he borrowed a DSLR camera from a friend and watched documentaries on Bob Cappa and James Nachtwey to learn the different stances when capturing pictures in conflict zones.

• His character in the web series ‘The Forgotten Army – Azaadi Ke Liye’ was inspired by the experiences of Kabir Khan, the director of the series.