Shiney Ahuja

Shiney Ahuja was born on May 15, 1975, to Suraj Prakash Ahuja and Seema Ahuja. His father was a Colonel. Shiney did his schooling in Army schools across the country. Ahuja developed his interest in acting at Hansraj College, Delhi University. He further developed his interest in acting by attending National School of Drama. He started his career as a model and then continued in modeling for some time. After completing his college, Ahuja first secured his first commercial ad for Pepsi. After the successful Pepsi ad, he starred in nearly 40 ads. His ad career boosted his chance to enter into Bollywood. His talent was identified by Sudhir Mishra Sudhir Mishra is a Bollywood director and screenwr >> Read More... , the director of Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi. This film has two male lead role characters, i.e., the role of SiddharthTyabji and Vikram Malhotra Vikram Malhotra is a producer, Chief Executive Off >> Read More... . He first auditioned for the role of Siddharth Tyabji.

But later, he convinced the director and took up the role of Vikram Malhotra. The movie eventually went on to get 12 nominations in 6 months, and the movie was critically acclaimed. Ahuja made a right choice by choosing the role of Vikram Malhotra because the character fetched him various awards which include Filmfare Award for Best Debut Male. This movie gave him nation-wide recognition. After that, he acted in a movie called Gangster Click to look into! >> Read More... which was directed by Mahesh Bhatt Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt created a niche for himself >> Read More... . He played an anti-hero in that movie. It again gave him recognition, and he got the Stardust Award for Superstar of Tomorrow. After that, he once again got a role in the movie Life in Metro, which was again critically acclaimed. His last critically acclaimed movie was Khoya Khoya Chand, which fetched him the Kalakar Award for Best Actor.

In the year 2009, he was accused of raping his maid who was 18 years old. He argued that the sex was consensual. The maid retracted the charges and said that the act was consensual. The Trail Court refused to accept the retraction. He furthered appealed to the High Court, and several hearings have been conducted after that. After this controversy, Ahuja didn’t get chance to act in many films.

After few years gap, he returned to Bollywood through the movie Welcome Back Click to look into! >> Read More... where he was paired up with an ensemble cast which included, Anil Kapoor Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumb >> Read More... , Nana Patekar Nana Patekar is a popular Indian actor who was bor >> Read More... , and John Abraham Like some of our sexy stars, John Abraham has had >> Read More... . Though he has acted in very few movies, most of his movies are critically acclaimed for his acting and Shiney is very particular about the roles which he chooses to act.

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Shiney Ahuja was born on the 15^th of May, 1975 in Dehradun, Uttarakhand to Colonel Suraj Prakash Ahuja and Seema Ahuja. Being the son of an officer of the Indian Army, Ahuja received his early education from a number of army schools across country. He was quite the sportsman in school and excelled in a number of sports like volleyball, football and cricket. He went on to receive professional training in cricket in the later years from Mr. Gursharan Singh Bio coming soon... >> Read More... at the National Stadium of Delhi. During his years there, he discovered his passion for theatre and went on to pursue it seriously through college. He joined the theatre group ‘ Tag Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ where he met director Barry John Barry John can be considered to be the “Alchemist” >> Read More... , shortly after which he joined Barry John’s acting school in Delhi.

Shiney was first cast in a ‘Pepsi’ commercial which was the much-needed break he needed to enter into the world of television and cinema. This was followed by as many as 40 ad-films that year including Cadbury’s and Citi Bank. He also appeared in the music video of ‘Pyar ho Gaya’ by the band ‘Stereo Nation’.

He debuted into Bollywood with the movie ‘Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi’ directed by Sudhir Mishra. His exceptional performance in the movie fetched him an IIFA and Filmfare award for Best Actor (Debut) along with three others.

He went on to become one of the most popular actors of the industry and appeared in movies like Anurag Basu's romantic crime drama ‘Gangster’, Mohit Suri's ‘ Woh Lamhe Click to look into! >> Read More... ’, ‘Life in a Metro’ and also the blockbuster thriller-comedy ‘ Bhool Bhulaiyaa Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ etc.,

He had a break from Bollywood following the controversy which led to his imprisonment in the year of 2009. 

However, Ahuja bounced back into the game with the movie Welcome Back (2015) alongside renowned actors like John Abraham, Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and asso >> Read More... , Nana Patekar and Paresh Rawal The Padma Shri award winner who shot to fame with >> Read More... . His movies Ek Accident and Har Pal are yet to hit the box office.

Shiney Ahuja tied the knot in the year 2003. He now lives in Mumbai with his wife Anupam Ahuja and daughter Arshiya Ahuja.