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Shiney Ahuja (born 15 May 1973) is an Indian actor in Bollywood films. He won the Filmfare Best Male Debut Award for Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi in 2006 and then followed with several hit films like Gangster, Woh Lamhe, Life in a Metro, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, and Welcome Back.[2]

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Shiney Ahuja
Ahuja in 2012
Born	(1973-05-15) 15 May 1973 (age 49) New Delhi, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	St. Xavier's School, Ranchi
Alma mater	Hansraj College, Delhi University
Occupation	Actor Model
Years active	2005–2015
Spouse	Anupam Pandey ​ (m. 1997)​ [1]
Children	1

Early life

Ahuja was born on 15 May 1973 in New Delhi into a Sindhi Hindu family.[3] Ahuja's father was in Indian Army. He studied at St. Xavier's School, Ranchi, Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan[4] and attended Hansraj College, Delhi University. Later, he joined the theatre group "TAG" where he met Barry John. Shortly thereafter, he joined John's acting school in Delhi.^{[citation needed]}

Career

After completing college, Shiney secured his first commercial ad for Pepsi. This instantly brought him into consideration by the top ad agencies. Flooded with offers, Ahuja worked in over 40 ad films in that year, including Cadburys and Citibank. He also featured in the music video 'Pyar ho Gaya' for the British-Asian band "Stereo Nation."^{[citation needed]}

In the same year, Sudhir Mishra was auditioning for a film by Pritish Nandy Communications, Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi. Sudhir saw Shiney in the Pepsi commercial and called him to audition for Kay Kay's character – Sidharth Tyabji. Upon Shiney's request, Mishra also auditioned him for the role of Vikram Malhotra. Shiney was selected from over 200 aspirants for the role of Vikram Malhotra and made his acting debut in the film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi.^{[citation needed]}

The film went on to win critical acclaim, and was screened at as many as 12 film festivals over 6 months. These included film festivals at Turkey, Estonia, River to River (Florence), Berlin, Edinburgh, Washington, Dallas, India (Goa), Bite The Mango festival (Bradford, UK), the Commonwealth festival (Manchester), and the Pacific Rim festival (California). The film was released commercially in 2005 with minimal publicity but a national footprint across India. Ahuja swept away several best actor (debut) awards given for the year.^{[citation needed]}

Thereafter, he played the lead role in Mahesh Bhatt's Gangster, a popular commercial movie genre and Woh Lamhe opposite Kangana Ranaut. Other films followed including Life in a Metro, Bhool Bhulaiyaa. Two of his films, Ek Accident with co-star Soha Ali Khan and Har Pal with Preity Zinta are yet to be released.^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, Shiney was cast in Anees Bazmee's Welcome Back co-starring John Abraham, Shruti Hassan, Anil Kapoor, Nana Patekar, Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia and Paresh Rawal.[5][6]

Legal history

In June 2009, Ahuja was arrested on charges of raping, detaining, and threatening his 19-year-old domestic servant. He was booked under Section 376 (rape), and Section 506 (threat to kill) of the Indian Penal Code.[7] During the trial, his maid (the victim) recanted on her testimony and told the Court that she was never raped. However, the judge believed that the maid falsely testified under pressure and, in 2011, Ahuja was sentenced to seven years of prison.[8]

This case was the inspiration for the writing of the legal drama film Section 375. The film was written by Manish Gupta, Ahuja's friend who had interacted with all parties of the case during the time of the arrest.[9][10]

Filmography

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Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Movies	Role	Other notes
2005	Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi	Vikram Malhotra	Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut
2005	Karam	ACP Wagh Pratap Singh
2005	Sins	Williams
2005	Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow
2006	Gangster	Daya Shankar	Stardust Award for Superstar of Tomorrow – Male
2006	Fanaa	Suraj Ahuja	Friendly appearance
2006	Woh Lamhe	Aditya Garewal
2006	Zindaggi Rocks	Dr. Suraj Rihan
2007	Life in a... Metro	Akash
2007	Bhool Bhulaiya	Siddharth Chaturvedi
2007	Khoya Khoya Chand	Zaffar
2008	Migration		Short film
2008	Hijack	Vikram Madaan
2009	Dheeme Dheeme
2012	Ghost	Vijay Singh
TBA	Har Pal	Rohit
2015	Welcome Back	Honey

Awards

Award	Film	Category	Result
Filmfare Awards	Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi	Best Male Debut	Won
Screen Awards		Best Male Debut	Won
Zee Cine Awards		Best Male Debut	Won
IIFA Awards		Star Debut of the Year - Male	Won
Stardust Awards		Best Male Debut	Won
	Gangster	Superstar of Tomorrow	Won

References

External links

• Shiney Ahuja at IMDb
• Shiney Ahuja at Bollywood Hungama

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