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| Years active | 2015–present |
| Known for | Mismatched |
Taaruk Raina is an Indian actor, singer, songwriter and composer. [1] He is known for his portrayal of Anmol Malhotra in Mismatched .
Taaruk Raina | |
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| Raina in 2023 | |
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| Years active | 2015–present |
| Known for | Mismatched |
Taaruk Raina is an Indian actor, singer, songwriter and composer. [1] He is known for his portrayal of Anmol Malhotra in Mismatched .
Raina has been singing since he was six years old. He grew up listening to a lot of rock music, rap, heavy metal, and ghazals, and used to sing in his school choir as well. [2] Lacking technical knowledge about music, he began learning via YouTube. After some years, he started performing gigs at bars and weddings. [3] [4]
In 2015, began working as Aditya Chopra's assistant at Yash Raj Films for Befikre . [5]
He then performed in theatre plays, notably as the lead character in an Indian adaptation of Disney’s Aladdin , [6] where he had to act in front of a live audience and sing iconic numbers. [2]
In 2018, he made his film debut in High Jack as Parth. The following year, in 2019, he appeared in ZEE5's Dhumrapaan and Kaand. [7]
In February 2020, he starred in MX Player's relationship-drama Pawan & Pooja as Pawan opposite Natasha Bharadwaj. [8] [9] In June 2020, he also featured in the short film Purple. [10] Since November 2020, he has been portraying Anmol Malhotra in the Netflix teenage romantic drama Mismatched , where he acted as well as composed two songs for the show. [11] He was next seen in Sony Music India's song "Sukoon", featuring himself opposite Aisha Ahmed. [12]
In 2021, he appeared in the Netflix mini-series Aryan & Meera as Aryan opposite Zayn Marie Khan. [13]
In 2022, he featured in two web shows, ZEE5's The Broken News , and Amazon Prime Video's Jugaadistan . [14] In the same year, he also portrayed Rishi Kapoor's son Vinayak Sharma in Sharmaji Namkeen . [15] [16]
In January 2023, Raina released his first independent single, "Narazi". [17] In May 2023, he was a part of Audible's podcast series called Desi Down Under, [18] along with Adarsh Gourav and Prajakta Koli, directed by Mantra, [19] where the story is set in Sydney about three 20-year-olds from Mangalore who go to Australia to learn surf-lifesaving skills at Coogee Beach. [20]
He will next be seen in Danish Renzu's musical drama Songs of Paradise . [21]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
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| 2015 | Befikre | — | Assistant director | [5] |
| 2018 | High Jack | Parth | [22] | |
| 2019 | Dhumrapaan | Owen | [23] | |
| Kaand | Unnamed | Teleplay | [24] | |
| 2020 | Purple | Neil | Short film | [10] |
| 2022 | Sharmaji Namkeen | Vinayak "Vincy" Sharma | [25] | |
| TBA | Songs of Paradise † | TBA | [21] |
| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Pawan & Pooja | Pawan Srivastav | [26] |
| 2020–present | Mismatched | Anmol Malhotra | [27] |
| 2021 | Aryan & Meera | Aryan Khanna | [28] |
| 2022 | The Broken News | Anuj Saxena | [29] |
| Jugaadistan | Lucky Kohli | [14] |
| Year | Title | Role | Language | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Desi Down Under | Rahul | English | [30] |
| Year | Title | Film/Series | Co-singer | Music | Lyrics | Ref. |
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| 2018 | "Happy Ending Song" (Version 1) | High Jack | Sumedha Karmahe | Rajat Tiwari | Akarsh Khurana | [31] |
| "Happy Ending Song" (Version 2) | Manasi Mulherkar | |||||
| 2020 | "Sukoon" | Single | — | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania, Bruno Gonçalves Mota | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | [12] |
| "Main Chala" | Mismatched (season 1) | Chaitanya Sharma alias SlowCheeta | Himself | Shwetang Shankar | [32] | |
| 2022 | "Kho Gaye" | Mismatched (season 2) | — | Himself | [33] | |
| 2023 | "Narazi" | Single | — | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | [34] | |
| "Kaise Banu" | — | [35] | ||||
| "Kalleyan" | Akasa Singh | Himself, Akasa Singh | [36] | |||
| 2024 | "Lost and Found" | — | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | [37] | ||
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