Naveen Kasturia

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Naveen Kasturia
Born (1984-01-26) 26 January 1984 (age 40)
Otukpo, Benue State, Nigeria
Alma mater Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology
University of Delhi
Occupation Actor
Years active2009-present
Known for TVF Pitchers
Bose: Dead/Alive
TVF Aspirants
Breathe into the shadows

Naveen Kasturia (born 26 January 1985) is an Indian actor known for his work in TVF drama series TVF Pitchers and Aspirants . [1] He also appeared in lead actor in the critically acclaimed film Sulemani Keeda . He received critical acclaim and immense fame for his role of Abhilash in TVF Aspirants .

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He started his career working as an assistant director on the film Jashnn and then assisted Dibakar Banerjee on Love Sex Aur Dhokha and Shanghai . He also appeared in Bose: Dead/Alive and played leading roles in Waah Zindagi , Thinkistan, Happily Ever After and Runaway Lugai.

Early life

Naveen was born in Otukpo, a small town in Nigeria. His family moved back to India when he was a year old. He was brought up in a joint family in Delhi. He did his schooling from Birla Vidya Niketan and engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (now NSUT) in Delhi. [2]

He directed a lot of skits/plays in his school and college days. After graduation, he joined an analytics firm called Inductis in Gurgaon in 2006, where he worked for two years before moving to Mumbai in 2008. In Mumbai, he worked with JP Morgan Chase for a very brief period of time before making a final switch to films.[ citation needed ]

Career

Naveen continued doing theatre after engineering. In 2007, Naveen and his college friends started a theatre company, Right Click Entertainment, and wrote and directed his first ticketed play Khel Khel Mein, which went houseful. He worked as an assistant director in Jashnn, produced by Vishesh Films.[ citation needed ]

Naveen got his first television commercial when he went to meet Dibakar Banerjee since he wanted to assist Dibakar Banerjee as an AD, and Banerjee asked him to work in his coke commercial. As of now, Naveen Kasturia has worked in many advertisements for various brands such as Vodafone, Mahindra, Tapzo app, Marathe Jewellers, True Value and so on. Later, he assisted Dibakar Banerjee in LSD and Shanghai, and Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović in an international film called Tigers.[ citation needed ]

In 2011, Amit Masurkar offered a movie to Kasturia, named Sulemani Keeda. Released in 2014, the movie proved to be a turning point in his career. Naveen did a few more sketches with The Viral Fever before Pitchers happened. [3]

In 2022, he also appeared in a podcast on Spotify, 'Bhaskar Bose: A Hindi Thriller Podcast' (season 3 – 'Bhaskar Bose in a Perfect World' ) playing the role of Bhaskar Bose from a Parallel World. The podcast was created by MNM Talkies.

Filmography

Key
†Denotes films / dramas that are not yet released

Films

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2009 Jashnn Assistant director
2010 Love Sex Aur Dhokha
2012 Shanghai Ranjanalso assistant director
2014 Tigers Assistant director
Sulemani Keeda Dulal [4]
2016 Loveshhuda Kunal
2018 Hope Aur Hum Nitin [5]
Turtle —
2019 Waah Zindagi Ashok ZEE5 film [6]

Web series

YearTitleRolePlatformNotesRef.
2013Chai Sutta ChroniclesSiddharth TVF
2015–present TVF Pitchers Naveen Bansal TVF
ZEE5 		[7]
2015Man's WorldBus passenger YFilms Guest appearance
2017Social SeriesPrithvi Viu
Bose: Dead/Alive Darbari Lal ALTBalaji
2018The Good VibesLakshya Tripathi YouTube
2019Fuh se FantasySushil Voot Episode
ThinkistanAmit MX Player [8]
Happily Ever After Roneet Bagchi Zoom Studios
ParchhayeeJimmy ZEE5
2021Aapkey Kamrey Mein Koi Rahta HaiSubbu MX Player
Pati Patni Aur PangaRomanchak Arora MX Player [9]
2021–present TVF Aspirants Abhilash Sharma TVF
Amazon Prime Video 		[10] [11] [12]
2021Runaway Lugai [13] [14] [15] Rajnikant Sinha MX Player
2021–present Kota Factory Dhruv Netflix [16]
2022 Breathe: Into the Shadows 2 Victor Bahl Amazon Prime Video
TVF Pitchers 2Naveen Bansal ZEE5
2023 SK Sir Ki Class IAS Abhilash Sharma YouTube Guest appearance
TVF Aspirants 2IAS Abhilash Sharma Amazon Prime Video
Sapne vs EveryoneSumit sir

(Music Teacher)

 YouTube
2024Not named †- ZEE5

Short films

YearTitleRoleNotes
2013Skin DeepSanjay
2014Interior Cafe NightYoung Boy
2014Stunt BoyRobin
2015Chhoti KhushiElder son SonyLIV film
2016Pure-VegArjun
2016Half TicketAyaan
2018Half Ticket 2Ayaan
2018MayaRaunak
2018Sone Bhi Do YaaronNaveen Zee5 film
2022Tasalli seRajan
2022Pehli Baar Hum Mile (music video)Naveen Khanna

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