Taaruk Raina

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Taaruk Raina
Taaruk Raina at the success bash of Mismatched (cropped).jpg
Raina in 2023
Occupations
  • Actor
  • singer
Years active2015–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 .

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Early life

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]

Career

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]

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2015 Befikre —Assistant director [5]
2018 High Jack Parth [22]
2019DhumrapaanOwen [23]
KaandUnnamedTeleplay [24]
2020PurpleNeilShort film [10]
2022 Sharmaji Namkeen Vinayak "Vincy" Sharma [25]
TBA Songs of Paradise †TBA [21]

Web series

YearTitleRoleRef.
2020 Pawan & Pooja Pawan Srivastav [26]
2020–present Mismatched Anmol Malhotra [27]
2021Aryan & MeeraAryan Khanna [28]
2022 The Broken News Anuj Saxena [29]
Jugaadistan Lucky Kohli [14]

Dubbing

YearTitleRoleLanguageRef.
2023Desi Down UnderRahulEnglish [30]

Discography

YearTitleFilm/SeriesCo-singerMusicLyricsRef.
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 MotaHimself, Charan Singh Pathania [12]
"Main Chala" Mismatched (season 1) Chaitanya Sharma alias SlowCheetaHimselfShwetang 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]
"Majboor"—Himself [38]

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