Tanuj Virwani

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Tanuj Virwani
Tanuj Virwani at LUV U SONIYO event1.jpg
Virwani at an event for Luv U Soniyo , 2013
Born (1986-11-29) 29 November 1986 (age 37)
Occupations
  • Actor
  • model
Years active2013–present
Spouse
Tanya Jacob
(m. 2023)
[1]
Mother Rati Agnihotri

Tanuj Virwani is an Indian actor and model active in the Bollywood industry. He is best known for his role of Vayu Raghavan in the 2017 Amazon Original television series Inside Edge. He has also played integral roles in Alt Balaji's Code M opposite Jennifer Winget and ZEE5's most successful show Poison . He has earlier started opposite Sunny Leone in the racy thriller One Night Stand . Along with being an actor he has shown a keen interest towards direction and writing and has made several socially relevant short films. He was recently seen in second season of popular web series Illegal of Voot Select.

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Career

He is the son of actress Rati Agnihotri. [2] He started his Bollywood career with Luv U Soniyo , a Hindi movie in 2013, directed by Joe Rajan. [3] He next appeared in 2014 film Purani Jeans directed by Tanushri Chatterji Bassu opposite Izabelle Leite and Aditya Seal.

He next appeared in Jasmine Moses D'souza's One Night Stand opposite Sunny Leone, released in May 2016, [4] then in the 2017 Amazon series Inside Edge, [5] followed by an appearance in celebrity reality TV show Box Cricket League. [6]

He ventured onto the digital medium with the Emmy nominated series Inside Edge in 2017. He then followed that up with the ZEE5 original Poison which turned out to be a massive hit. He also costarred on Alt Balaji's Code M opposite Jennifer Winget. He also played Don character in Disney+ Hotstar original The Tattoo murders opposite Meera Chopra. Tanuj also seen in Murder Meri Jaan opposite Barkha Singh its a comedy thriller web series on Disney+ Hotstar in 2021. In the same year, he was paired opposite Rashami Desai to play the negative role of Sahil Sharma in Nivedita Basu's crime thriller Tandoor.

Filmography

Films

YearTitleRoleNotes
2013 Luv U Soniyo Mark Briganza
2014 Purani Jeans Sidharth "Sid" Ray
2016 One Night Stand Urvil Raisingh
2024 Yodha Sameer Khan

Television

YearTitleRoleNotesRef
2018Box Cricket LeagueContestant
2024 MTV Splitsvilla 15 Host

Web series

YearTitleRoleNotesRef.
2017–present Inside Edge Vayu Raghavan
2018JigsawRonnyProducer
Scent of a WomenStranger
RihaDirector, producer
NaashDirector, producer, editor
2019Fuh Se FantasyTahir
Poison Ranveer [7]
2020–2022 Code M Angad Sandhu
2020Urban Incarceration
Illegal - Justice, Out of Order Raghav
Masaba Masaba Manav
Lips Don't LieKaran
2021 The Tattoo Murders Prahar Pratap [8]
Tandoor Sahil Sharma [9] [10]
Murder Meri JaanAditya [11]
Cartel Major Bhau
2024 Murshid Kumar Pratap [12]

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