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Raj Singh Chaudhary

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Raj Singh Chaudhury
Other namesRaja Chaudhury
Occupationactor
Years active2003–present

Raj Singh Chaudhary is an Indian actor, screenwriter and model best known for his role in the 2009 Hindi-language film, Gulaal. He has appeared in various other films such as Kuch Naa Kaho and Black Friday. Chaudhary is also sometimes credited as Raja Choudhary or Raja Chaudhary.

Early life and career

Chaudhary was born in Darjeeling, India. After pursuing a career in modeling 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 Anurag Kashyap who became his mentor.[1] Kashyap wrote a new screenplay based on Chaudhary's original script for what would eventually become the film Gulaal.[2] 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 is slated to appear in Sushil Rajpal's upcoming film Antardwand and in the Imran Khan-starrer Meridian Lines.[1]

Filmography

Actor

Year Film Role Other notes
2003 Kuch Naa Kaho Ajay Sehgal
2004 Black Friday Mushtaq Tarani
2009 Gulaal Dileep Singh
2010 Waiting Room
Antardwand Releases 27 August 2010
Old Monk Announced
Mayanagri Announced

Writer

Year Film
2007 No Smoking
2004 Black Friday

References

  1. ^ a b Jha, Sumit (27 March 2009). "'Anurag is more than Godfather to me'". Times of India. Retrieved 2009-04-09.
  2. ^ "Raj Singh Chaudhury: Gulaal changed my life". StarBoxOffice.com. 4 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-09.