Tanay Chheda

Tanay Hemant Chheda
Tanay Hemant Chheda
	Chheda in 2011
Born	27 June 1996 (age 28); Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	Choate Rosemary Hall
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2006–2011
Notable work	Don: The Chase Begins Again (2006); Taare Zameen Par (2007); Slumdog Millionaire (2008); My Name Is Khan (2010)

Tanay Hemant Chheda (born 27 June 1996) is a former Indian actor who appeared in Hindi films. He is best known for his child performances in the critically acclaimed films Taare Zameen Par (2007) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), with the latter earning him the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008.

Early life

Chheda was born on 27 June 1996 and is a Gujarati Jain with roots in Mundra, Kutch who was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, where he currently lives.^[2] He attended the Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, United States.^[1]

He was first seen in the movie Don: The Chase Begins Again in 2006. He has the critically acclaimed Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth) in 2007 to his name and the award-sweeping Slumdog Millionaire in 2008.

In Don, he played the role of Deepu, the son of Jasjit (played by Arjun Rampal). In Taare Zameen Par, he played the role of Rajan, a disabled child who is an extremely helpful and supportive friend to the protagonist Ishaan (played by Darsheel Safary). In Slumdog Millionaire, Chheda played the role of Teenage Jamal, in adolescence, for which he has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008. He was also seen as Junior Rizwan in Karan Johar's My Name Is Khan (2010). His last appearance in a feature length film was in a German film Hexe Lilli: Die Reise nach Mandolan in 2011.

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	Don: The Chase Begins Again	Deepak "Deepu" Ahuja	Debut film
2007	Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth)	Rajan Damodaran
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Teenage Jamal
2010	My Name is Khan	Junior Rizwan
2011	Lilly the Witch: The Journey to Mandolan	Musa
2024	Cadets: A Coming-Of-Age Journey of Brotherhood and Honor

^ ^a ^b Abramovitch, Seth; Bushan, Nyay (27 February 2014). "'Slumdog Millionaire' Kids Reunite, Five Years Later: How They're Doing". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
^ Jain, Ankur (28 January 2009). "Young 'Slumdog' hails from Kutch". Ahmedabad: Times of India. Archived from the original on 4 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018.

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