Raj Singh Chaudhary

Raj Singh Chaudhary is an Indian actor, screenwriter and model best known for his lead role in the 2009 Hindi-language film, Gulaal. He has appeared in various other films such as Kuch Naa Kaho and Black Friday and as a lead in Antardwand (2010).[1]

Raj Singh Chaudhary
Born
Darjeeling, India
Occupationactor
Years active2003–present

Early life and career

Chaudhary was born in Darjeeling, India. After pursuing a career in modelling and earning his degree in software engineering from BMS College of Engineering, he opened his own company in Bangalore. When Chaudhary was defrauded by his business partners he took an opportunity to move to Mumbai in order pursue a new career in acting. Chaudhary was inspired to write his own script after seeing the film Satya with its script written by Anurag Kashyap. Drawing on experiences from his college days, he worked on his script which focused on the practice of ragging, the physical and mental abuse of students in educational institutions. After the film in which he was supposed to appear fell through, Chaudhary took his script to director Kashyap who became his mentor.[2] Kashyap wrote a new screenplay based on Chaudhary's original script for what would eventually become the film Gulaal.[3] In addition to his work on Gulaal, Chaudhury also assisted on the set of Black Friday while playing a minor role and wrote the short story on which No Smoking is based. He appeared in the 2003 film Kuch Naa Kaho which starred Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan. He next appeared in Sushil Rajpal's film Antardwand which won the 2007 National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues and was released in 2010; his upcoming project is the Irffan Khan, Abhay Deol starrer Karmaya.[2]

Filmography

Actor
YearFilmRoleDirectorOther notes
2003 Kuch Naa Kaho Ajay Sehgal Rohan Sippy
2004 Black Friday Mushtaq Tarani Anurag Kashyap
2009 Gulaal Dileep Singh Anurag Kashyap Also writer
2010 Ek Anhonee Josheph Dhiraj Kotkar A very good thrilling suspense
2010 The Waiting Room Karan Maneej Premnath
Antardwand Raghuveer Sushil Rajpal National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues
Old Monk Announced

Writer
YearFilm
2009 Gulaal
2007 No Smoking

References
  1. Mukherjee, Roshni (5 May 2009). "There's no stopping Raj". The Times of India.
  2. Jha, Sumit (27 March 2009). "Anurag is more than Godfather to me". The Times of India. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
  3. "Raj Singh Chaudhury: Gulaal changed my life". StarBoxOffice.com. 4 April 2009. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
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