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Viraf Patel (born Viraf Phiroz Patel on 12 June 1980) is an Indian model and television actor. He was a sailor in the merchant navy between 1999 and 2004 and was titled as The Grasim Mr. India 2005. He is best known for his role in the Yashraj Teleseries, Mahi Way as Shiv, Adityaraj Merchant in another Yashraj production-Kismat, as Shreshth in Teri Meri Love Stories opposite Shilpa Anand and most recently as Mrityunjay in BBC's production for Life OK "Ek Boond Ishq". The 2010 Limca Softdrink Campaign[1] established Viraf as a formidable actor/face on the Indian advertising and celluloid space. He made his debut in Theatre with Vikram Kapadia's "Bombay Talkies" in 2012.

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Viraf Phiroz Patel
Portrait of Viraf Patel
Born	(1980-06-12) 12 June 1980 (age 42) Pune, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	DJ, Anchor, Host, TV Endorser, Sailor, Actor, Model
Years active	2005–present
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Spouse	Saloni Khanna ​ (m. 2021)​
Website	virafpatel.com

Personal life

Viraf was born and brought up in a Parsi Zoroastrian family in Pune, Maharashtra, India. Following encouragement from his brothers, he participated in Grasim Mister India Contest by Aditya Birla Group in 2005 and won the title of Grasim Mr India. He has two elder brothers. Viraf got engaged to Saloni Khanna on 20 February 2021[2][3][4] and tied the knot on 6 May 2021.[5][6][7]

Career

Viraf completed 5 years of sailing in the merchant navy, then won the personality pageant ’Grasim Mr. India 2005‘ [8] and has been in front of the camera since. Campaigns, ramp shows & music videos,[9] TV commercials (most notably the Limca 2010 one) & TV anchoring came post that.

Viraf has also been the face of the country's then largest garment retail brand Pantaloon between 2005 ~09. On the ramp, he has walked for the most sought after designers on the most watched platforms like India Fashion week, Lakme Fashion week et al., right until he started work on his TV debut.

He started his acting career in one of India's most successful television mini series, Mahi Way produced by Yashraj in 2010.[10]

He followed it up with another show with the Yashraj banner, called Kismat,[11] as the lead character of, Aditya Raj Merchant in 2011.

Viraf portrayed the role of a business man 'Shreshth' in the BBC telefilm 'Tere Meri Love Stories' opposite Shilpa Anand.

He played the role of Mrityunjay Singh Shekhawat in the life ok drama Ek Boondh Ishq, a BBC worldwide production and his first daily soap. The show ended in October 2014.[12]

In 2015 Viraf started work on Mahesh Bhatt's Naamkarann,[13] for the leading Hindi entertainment TV channel Star Plus, which eventually went on air went on air in Sept 2016.

Viraf was also seen playing a hot boss in the MTV series called BigF in April 2017.

He is also reported to be working on a documentary [14] he is producing and directing himself since 2013, based on daughters of sex workers.[15]

Viraf is working on few scripts and is learning screenwriting from Boman Irani at Spiral Bound[16]

He made his debut [17] on the digital space with 13 Mussoorie on Viu.[18]

Television

Year	Show	Role	Channel	Co-Star
2010	Mahi Way	Shiv Deshraj	Sony Entertainment Television (India)	Pushtiie Shakti
2010	Rishta.com	Arjun Khanna(cameo)	Sony Entertainment Television (India)	Shruti Seth
2011	Kismat [19][20]	Aditya Raj Merchant[21]	Sony Entertainment Television (India)[22]	Khalida Turi
2012	Teri Meri Love Stories	Shreshth Kashyap[23]	Star Plus	Shilpa Anand[24]
2013–2014	Ek Boond Ishq	Mrityunjay Singh Shekhawat[25]	Life OK	Chhavi Pandey
2015	Hunnarbaaz Season 2	Host	DD National
2016-2017	Naamkarann	Ashish Mehta	Star Plus	Barkha Bisht
2017	MTV Big F S2E06 [26]	Samrat S.[27]	MTV	Charu Mehra
2018	Showbiz with Vahbiz E09	Guest	Indian WikiMedia	Freddy Daruwala
2018	13 Mussoorie	Rishi Pant	Viu	Shriya Pilgaonkar[28]
2018	Laal Ishq E38 [29]	Amar	&TV	Debina Bonnerjee
2019	Flip E03 - "Massage" [30]	Navzar	Eros Now[31]	Sandeepa Dhar
2019	Heartbreak Hotel E01 - "Phenomenal" [32]	Vikram	Sony Liv[33]	Saloni Khanna
2019	The Verdict - State vs Nanavati	Prem Bhagwandas Ahuja	ALTBalaji and ZEE5	Elli AvrRam
2020	Taish	Shozi	ZEE5	Pulkit Samrat

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role	Language	Notes
2011	Mummy Punjabi	Arjun Arora	Hindi	Debut
2017	Hanuman: Da' Damdaar	Lord Vishnu	Hindi	Voice
2021	Koi Jaane Na	Vicky Singhania	Hindi

Advertisements

Year	Brand	Director
2006	Planet Sports	Sameer Puri
2006	onegramoflatex	Vishal Suchak
2006.	TVS Apache	Marco Kalantri.
2006	Maruti Alto	Amit Sharma
2006	Sony Handycam	Prahlad Kakkar
2008	Sony Bravia	N/A
2009	V-Guard pump
2009	ICICI Mutual Funds	Amit Sharma
2010	Limca [34]	Vinil Matthew [35]
2011	Chik Shampoo	Pradeep Sarkar
2011	Bank Of India,Home Loans	Shivendra Singh
2013	Vento Volkswagen	Shivendra Singh [36]
2015	Indica Easy Hair Colour	Ice Media Lawrance
2015	Mine Diamonds	Bhanuprakash A V
2016	TVS Victor [37]	Abhijit Chaudhuri [38]
2016	Britannia Nutrichoice Oat Cookies	Kamlesh Pandey
2016	Wild Stone Deo	Vivek Kakkad
2016	Grand Mills Chakki Fresh Atta	Aatish Dabral
2017	Coolpad Note 5	Robbie Grewal
2017	Wheel 2 in 1	Hemant Bhandari
2017	Saffola Masala Oats
2018	NetMeds.com	Aatish Dabral
2018	Sufi Banaspati and Cooking Oil [39]	Shwetabh Varma
2018	Philips Ceiling Secure Downlight [40]

References

External links

• Viraf Patel at IMDb
• Viraf Patel on Twitter
• Viraf Patel at Bollywood Hungama

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