Ankur Bhatia

Ankur Bhatia is an actuary-turned-model-turned-actor. He was born on 24 May, 1982, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. From his childhood, he had a great passion for acting and appearing on the screen. As a part of his academics, he studied Computer Engineering in Indore, India, and flew to USA to study Masters at the University of Connecticut. Soon after his studies, for seven years, he worked as an actuary to well-known financial firms like Deloitte, and Mellon Bank, to name a few. As he settled well in his academics and his career, he wanted to try his hand at acting, and his passion stimulated his desire to pursue it. He did a diploma in acting from the New York Film Academy.

Mira Nair Mira Nair, a veteran Filmmaker, based in New York >> Read More... , who started Mirabai Productions, and who produced some internationally accoladed movies like ‘Mississippi’, The Namesake Click to look into! >> Read More... , Monsoon Wedding, etc. which are based in India, also worked for Grant St. Shaving Co. Ankur Bhatia played a role in this movie. Grant St. Shaving Co. is also an international hit, which received around ten international awards like Cannes, Florence Film Festival, Italy, etc. As usual, Ankur Bhatia played minor roles in the initial stages. He played the role of a street-smart-waiter in Coconut Grove. For this character, he took the Best Actor Commendation Award at the Film Festival at NYU Tisch School of Arts. After seeing one of his short films, Apoorva Lekhi invited him for auditions. Then, he worked for yet another blockbuster movie called ‘ Zanjeer Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, which was directed by Apoorva Lekhi. Apoorva Lekhi directed some blockbusters in Bollywood like ‘Lagaan’, and Mission Istanbul. Zanjeer is the remake of Amitabh Bachchan's 1973 starrer, Zanjeer. Ankur Bhatia played the character of Bosco, who is the right hand of a villain role played by Prakash Raj Prakash Raj, born on 26th of March, 1965, as Praka >> Read More... . Ankur Bhatia opined that it will be a good start for him in India, because the movie was simultaneously releasing in two languages, Hindi and Telugu. Apart from these, he gave auditions for the role of Young Amitabh in ‘Mehrunnisa’. He appeared in the 2013 Tollywood flick ‘ Dillunnodu Click to look into! >> Read More... ’. Unfortunately, it didn't go on to sets till now. As he was moving to the US and India very frequently on some acting work, he permanently shifted to Mumbai recently.

Right now, he is streaming on the Bollywood news boards. He took the role of the husband of Dalbir in the new flick ‘ Sarbjit Click to look into! >> Read More... ’. Sarbjit is a female oriented movie in which Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a popular Indian actress >> Read More... is playing the lead role, Dalbir. It is the film based on the life of Sarabjit Singh.