Aparshakti Khurana’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Aparshakti Khurana is an Indian actor, radio jockey and a television host. He is the younger brother of actor Ayushmann Khurrana.

Khurana’s first Bollywood project came with the sports biopic Dangal (2016), which emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian films of all time and earned him several awards and nominations. He rose to prominence with starring supporting roles in the romantic comedies Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017) and Luka Chuppi (2019) and the comedy-drama Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi (2018). Khurana went on to gain critical acclaim for playing a supporting role in the top-grossing horror comedy Stree (2018), for which he earned a Filmfare nomination in the Best Supporting Actor category.

Early life and background

Khurana was born on 18 November 1987 in Chandigarh to Anita and P. Khurrana. He completed his schooling and graduation in law from Chandigarh. He was also the sports captain at school and captained the Haryana U-19 cricket team. His brother Ayushmann Khurrana is a popular Bollywood actor.

Film career

Early work and breakthrough (2016—2018)

Khurana made his acting debut with Nitesh Tiwari’s biographical sports drama Dangal (2016), about the story of Mahavir Singh Phogat, an Indian amateur pehlwani wrestler, who trains his two daughters Geeta and Babita to become India’s world class top-female wrestlers. Aamir Khan was cast as Mahavir, while Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra featured as the two daughters, and Khurana played Omkar, Mahavir’s nephew. The film garnered favourable reactions from critics and was highly anticipated. Dangal eventually proved to be the highest-grossing Indian film with grossings of over ₹20 billion (US$290 million) in global ticket sales, becoming Khurana’s highest-grossing release ever and earning him praise along with a Screen Award for Best Male Debut and a nomination under the same category at the Filmfare Awards.

The Shashank Khaitan directed-romantic comedy Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017) was Khurana’s next film release. Co-starring alongside Alia Bhatt and Varun Dhawan, the film narrated the story of an independent young woman (Bhatt) from rural India who refuses to conform to patriarchal expectations from her chauvinistic fiancè (Dhawan). Khurana was cast as Bhushan Mishra, Bhatt’s brother-in-law. Badrinath Ki Dulhania proved to be one of the top-grossing productions of the year, grossing over ₹2 billion (US$29 million) worldwide.

In 2018, Khurana appeared in three films, the first of which was Mudassar Aziz’s Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi (a sequel to the 2016 film Happy Bhag Jayegi), a comedy about two girls who both are named Happy. A critical and commercial failure, it co-starred Sonakshi Sinha and Diana Penty, with Khurana playing the supporting part of Aman Wadhwa, the eloped fiancè of Happy 2 (Sinha). His next role was in Amar Kaushik’s directorial debut Stree, a horror comedy co-starring Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, and Pankaj Tripathi. Stree emerged as a major commercial success with a worldwide gross revenue of ₹1.80 billion (US$26 million), and his performance earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination at Filmfare. Khurana’s final release of 2018 was the Netflix film Rajma Chawal. Directed by Leena Yadav, it co-starred Rishi Kapoor, Anirudh Talwar, and Amyra Dastur.

Luka Chuppi and other roles (2019—present)

In 2019, Khurana took on another supporting role in Laxman Utekar’s romantic comedy Luka Chuppi, co-starring Kartik Aaryan, Kriti Sanon, and Pankaj Tripathi. Set in Gujarat, Luka Chuppi was about the story of a live-in-relationship between a headstrong woman (Rashmi, played by Sanon) and a television reporter (Guddu, played by Aaryan). The film received positive reviews from critics and turned out to be a commercial success, grossing over ₹1 billion (US$14 million) worldwide.

Upcoming projects

As of March 2019, Khurana has two upcoming projects. He is filming Remo D’Souza’s coming-of-age dance film Street Dancer (a sequel to the 2015 dance film ABCD 2), which will feature an ensemble cast including Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Nora Fatehi, Punit Pathak, and Prabhu Deva; and will release on 24 January 2020. Khurana has also completed Prashant Singh’s romantic comedy Jabariya Jodi, which co-stars Sidharth Malhotra and Parineeti Chopra and is slated to release on 2 August 2019.

Personal life

Khurana was born in Chandigarh. His father P Khurrana is an astrologer and an author on the subject of astrology, whereas his mother Anita is a house wife and she is of half-Burmese descent and an M.A. in Hindi. He married Aakriti Ahuja (whom he met at a dance class in Chandigarh) on 7 September 2014. Ahuja is an MBA graduate from Indian School of Business and the founder of LaFeria Events.

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Awards and nominations

Television

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