Raj Singh Chaudhary
Chaudhary in 2010
Born
Raj Mangal Singh Chaudhary

(1975-07-23) 23 July 1975
Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Alma materB.M.S. College of Engineering,B.M.S. Institute of Technology and Management
Occupations
  • Actor
  • screenwriter
  • film director
Years active2003–present

Raj Mangal Singh Chaudhary is an Indian actor, screenwriter and film director.[1]

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

Year Title Functioned as Notes
Director Writer
2007 No Smoking No Yes
2009 Gulaal No Yes
2019 The Last Chapter Yes Yes Short film
2021 Shaadisthan Yes Yes Hotstar film
2022 Thar Yes Yes Netflix film

Acting credits

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003 Kuch Naa Kaho Ajay Sehgal
2004 Black Friday Mushtaq Tarani
2009 Gulaal Dileep Singh
2010 Ek Anhonee Josheph "Tiger" Rodriguez
The Waiting Room Karan
Antardwand Raghuveer
2018 Plus Minus Jeet Short film

References

  1. ↑ Mukherjee, Roshni (5 May 2009). "There's no stopping Raj". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 Jha, Sumit (27 March 2009). "Anurag is more than Godfather to me". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. 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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