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VICKY KAUSHAL
THE BIRTHDAY BOY
during his engineering that
he realized that he wanted
to become an actor. He was
always an active part of the
theater during his school
and college days, and joined
an acting workshop under
Kishore Namit Kapoor but
also parallelly completed his
engineering.
Vicky first decided to assist
directors instead of acting
and used to regularly visit
Bollywood director Anurag
Kashyap`s office, after which
he assisted him on ‘Gangs
of Wasseypur’ in 2010 and
‘Gangs of Wasseypur 2’ in
2012. After that, he went on
to do small parts in movies
like ‘Luv Shuv Tey Chicken
Khurana’ in 2012, ‘Bombay
Velvet’ in 2015, and was
Vicky Kaushal was born in the slum area in also seen in the short film ‘Geek Out’. In
Malad, on May 16th 1988 to award-winning the meantime, he continued to be a part of
action director and stunt coordinator Shyam Manav Kaul and Naseeruddin Shah`s theater
Kaushal, who has been associated with groups.
movies like Slumdog Millionaire, 3 Idiots,
and Bajrangi Bhaijaan. His brother, Sunny While Vicky was assisting Kashyap on ‘Gangs
Kaushal, is also a part of the film industry and of Wasseypur’, even Neeraj Ghaywan was
has worked in movies like Gunday and My working with him as an assistant director.
Friend Pinto as an assistant director. When Neeraj decided to make his movie,
‘Masaan’, he called Vicky to audition for a
Vicky studied electronics and part too. ‘Masaan’, co-starring Richa Chadda,
telecommunications engineering at the Rajiv Sanjay Mishra, and Pankaj Tripathi, was
Gandhi Institute of Technology, Mumbai. It released at the Cannes Film Festival and won
was only during one of the industrial visits the FIPRESCI Prize in the Un Certain Regard
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