Satyadeep Misra

 Some Lesser Known Facts About Satyadeep Misra

• He was born into a family of bureaucrats.

  

• His early education took place in Uttarakhand.

  

• Satyadeep Misra after completing his formal education appeared for the UPSC Civil Service Examination (CSE) and was allotted the Indian Revenue Service (IRS). However, he later quit the service after ten months of service.

• As an IRS officer, he served in the post of commissioner.

• After leaving service, he relocated to New Delhi, where he began practising corporate law. He even served the Government of India for some time but later left his well-paying job as a lawyer to relocate to Mumbai. He practised law for 12 years.

• He used to work as the India Counsel of the Sun Group.

• While working as a lawyer, he appeared in shows such as The Great Escape and Living in The Edge.

• His first salary as a lawyer was Rs. 8000 which he received while working as a junior associate with a law firm in New Delhi.
• He has also worked at a Britain-based company named All Over The Place!!!!

• He came to Mumbai in 2008 to pursue a career in the Hindi film industry.

• His first acting audition was for a Bingo! Mad Angles commercial. For that ad, he was paid Rs. 15,000.

• In an interview, he revealed that when he came to Mumbai, he had a good bank balance but as time passed, his savings ran out due to which he faced difficulties in repaying the loan that he had taken to get settled in Mumbai.

• In the early days of his career, Misra considered becoming a dog walker to earn extra money.

• He later began working in the advertising industry.

• He made his acting debut with the 2011 film No One Killed Jessica, but before that, he was signed for the film Chillar Party. The film’s release got delayed due to which No One Killed Jessica was released before it.

  

• He landed a role in the 2015 Bollywood film Bombay Velvet after Anurag Kashyap asked him to work in the film while they both were shooting the pilot for a TV show.

  

• He has Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

• Some of his popular films include Turning 30 (2011) as Sahil, Phobia (2016) as Shaan, and Vikram Vedha as SSP Abbas.

  

• A few of his popular web series are Illegal (2020) as Puneet on Voot/Jio Cinemas, Naxalbari (2020) as Pahan on ZEE5, His Storyy (2021) as Kunal on ALTT, and Jehanabad – Of Love & War (2023) as SP Durgesh on SonyLIV.

  

• He is an avid animal lover and owns a few cats and dogs.

  

• He met his second wife, Masaba, on the sets of the web series Masaba Masaba in 2020.

  

• In 2022, he appeared in the Kapil Sharma Show.

  

• In April 2024, Masaba and Satyadeep announced that Masaba was pregnant.

  

• He loves biking and often shares photos and videos of his biking trips on social media. He learned to ride a bike while shooting for Bombay Velvet.

  

• He believes that the reason for not getting many offers to act in the films is the filmmakers’ preconceived notions about his acting capabilities.

• His grandfather served in the British military during the Second World War. He received a Military Cross, a gallantry award, in the war.

  

• Satyadeep Misra consumes alcohol occasionally.