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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.

Naveen Kasturia
Born	(1985-01-26) 26 January 1985 (age 37) Otukpo, Benue State, Nigeria
Alma mater	Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology University of Delhi
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2009-present
Known for	TVF Pitchers Bose: Dead/Alive TVF Aspirants

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. Though 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.

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 housefull. 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.[2]

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

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2009	Jashnn	Assistant director
2010	Love Sex Aur Dhokha
2012	Shanghai	Ranjan	also assistant director
2014	Tigers	Assistant director
2014	Sulemani Keeda	Dulal		[3]
2016	Loveshhuda	Kunal
2018	Hope Aur Hum	Nitin		[4]
2018	Turtle	—
2018	Sone Bhi Do Yaaro	Naveen
2019	Waah Zindagi	Ashok	ZEE5 film	[5]

Web Series

Year	Title	Role	Platform	Notes	Ref.
2013	Chai Sutta Chronicles	Siddharth	TVF	Guest appearance
2015	TVF Pitchers	Naveen Bansal	TVF		[6]
2015	Man's World	Bus passenger	YFilms	Guest appearance
2017	Social Series	Prithvi	Viu
2017	Bose: Dead/Alive	Darbari Lal	ALTBalaji
2018	The Good Vibes	Lakshya Tripathi
2019	Fuh se Fantasy	Sushil	Voot	Episode
2019	Thinkistan	Amit	MX Player		[7]
2019	Happily Ever After	Roneet Bagchi	Zoom Studios
2019	Parchhayee	Jimmy	ZEE5
2021	Aapkey Kamrey Mein Koi Rahta Hai	Subbu	MX Player
2021	Pati Patni Aur Panga	Romanchak Arora	MX Player		[8]
2021	TVF Aspirants	Abhilash Sharma	TVF		[9][10][11]
2021	Runaway Lugai[12][13][14][15]	Rajnikant Sinha	MX Player
2021	Kota Factory Season 2	Dhruv	Netflix		[16]
TBA	Breathe: Into the Shadows 2	TBA	Amazon Prime Video	Completed
	Pitchers 2	Naveen Bansal	TVF	Filming

Short Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Skin Deep	Sanjay
2014	Interior Cafe Night	Young Boy
2014	Stunt Boy
2015	Chhoti Khushi	Elder son	SonyLIV film
2016	Pure-Veg	Arjun
2016	Half Ticket	Ayaan
2018	Half Ticket 2	Ayaan
2018	Maya	Raunak
2019	Malgook Bidro	Naveen	Zee5 film

References

External links

• Naveen Kasturia at IMDb

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