Naveen Kasturia
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Naveen Kasturia | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Alma mater | Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi |
Occupation(s) | Film actor, Assistant director |
Known for | TVF Pitchers |
Naveen Kasturia (born 26 January 1985) is an Indian actor known for his work in TVF drama series - Pitchers.[1] He started his career working as an assistant director on the film Jashnn and then assisted Dibakar Banerjee on Love Sex Aur Dhokha and Shanghai. He also appeared as the lead actor in the critically acclaimed film Sulemani Keeda.
Early life
Naveen was born in Otukpo, a small town in Nigeria. Though his family moved back to India when he was a year old. He was brought up in a joint family in Delhi. He did his schooling from Birla Vidya Niketan and engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) in Delhi. He directed a lot of skits/plays in his school and college days. After graduation, he joined an analytics firm called Inductis in Gurgaon in 2006, where he worked for two years before moving to Mumbai in 2008. In Mumbai, he worked with JP Morgan Chase for a very brief period of time before making a final switch to films.
Career
Naveen continued doing theatre after engineering. In 2007, Naveen and his college friends started a theatre company, Right Click Entertainment, and wrote and directed his first ticketed play Khel Khel Mein, which went housefull. He worked as an assistant director in Jashnn, produced by Vishesh Films.
Naveen got his first television commercial when he went to meet Dibakar Banerjee since he wanted to assist Dibakar Banerjee as an AD, and Banerjee asked him to work in his coke commercial. As of now, Naveen Kasturia has worked in many advertisements for various brands such as Vodafone, Mahindra, Tapzo app, Marathe Jewellers, True Value and so on. Later, he assisted Dibakar Banerjee in LSD and Shanghai, and Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović in an international film called Tigers.
In 2011, Amit Masurkar offered a movie to Kasturia, named Sulemani Keeda. Released in 2014, the movie proved to be a turning point in his career. Naveen did a few more sketches with The Viral Fever before Pitchers happened.
Films and Web
Year | Title | Worked as | Role | Notes |
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2009 | Jashnn | Assistant director | Film | |
2010 | Love Sex Aur Dhokha | Assistant director | Film | |
2012 | Shanghai | Actor & Assistant director | Ranjan | Film |
2013 | Skin Deep | Actor | Sanjay | Short film |
2013 | Chai Sutta Chronicles | Actor | Siddharth | Web series by TVF |
2014 | Tigers | Third Assistant Director | Film | |
2014 | Interior Cafe Night | Actor | Young Boy | Short film |
2014 | Sulemani Keeda | Actor | Dulal | Film |
2014 | Stunt Boy | Actor | Short film | |
2015 | TVF Pitchers | Actor | Naveen Bansal | Web series by TVF |
2015 | Man's World | Actor | Bus passenger | Web series by YFilms |
2015 | Chhoti Khushi | Actor | Elder son | Short film by SonyLIV |
2016 | Loveshhuda | Actor | Kunal | Film |
2016 | Pure-Veg | Actor | Arjun | Short Film |
2016 | Half Ticket | Actor | Ayaan | Short Film |
2017 | Social Series | Actor | Prithvi | Web series by Viu |
2017 | Bose: Dead/Alive | Actor | Darbari Lal | Web series by ALTBalaji |
2018 | Half Ticket 2 | Actor | Ayaan | Short film |
2018 | Hope Aur Hum | Actor | Nitin | Film |
2018 | Maya | Actor | Raunak | Short film |
2018 | Turtle | Actor | Film | |
2018 | The Good Vibes | Actor | Lakshya Tripathi | Web series |
2019 | Malgook Bidro | Actor | Naveen | Short film by Zee5 |
2019 | Fuh se Fantasy | Actor | Sushil | Web series by Voot |
2019 | Thinkistan | Actor | Amit | Web series by MX Player |
2019 | Happily Ever After | Actor | Roneet Bagchi | Web series by The Zoom Studios |
2019 | Parchhayee | Actor | Jimmy | Web series by ZEE5 |
2019 | Waah Zindagi | Actor | Film |
References
- ^ Barkha Kumari (22 October 2015). "From Pitch to Ted Talk". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
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