Kaushal played his first leading role in the independent drama Masaan (2015), directed by Neeraj Ghaywan. Kaushal and Shweta Tripathi, his co-star in Masaan (2015)

In film, Kaushal played minor roles in Kashyap's productions Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana (2012) and Bombay Velvet (2015), and the experimental short film Geek Out (2013). He also began working on stage with his first acting job in Manav Kaul's production of Laal Pencil. Kaushal has described fond memories of working with Kashyap, whom he considers as his mentor. He studied acting at Kishore Namit Kapoor's academy and worked as an assistant director to Anurag Kashyap in the two-part crime drama Gangs of Wasseypur (2012). He briefly took on an engineering job and began accompanying his father to film sets. During an industrial visit to an IT company, he realised that an office job would be unsuitable for him and began aspiring to have a career in film. His parents were keen on their son having a stable career and thus, Kaushal pursued an engineering degree in electronics and telecommunications from Mumbai's Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology. Kaushal has described himself as a 'regular kid who was interested in studying, playing cricket and watching movies'. His younger brother, Sunny, is also an actor. Kaushal was born on in a suburban chawl in Mumbai to Sham Kaushal, a stuntman and subsequent action director in Hindi films and Veena Kaushal. Life and career Early life and work (1988–2016) The following year, he played the lead role of a military officer in both critically acclaimed and commercially successful action film Uri: The Surgical Strike, winning the National Film Award for Best Actor. His 2018 projects also included starring roles in the Netflix films Love per Square Foot and Lust Stories. For the latter, he won the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. Kaushal rose to prominence in 2018 with supporting roles in Raazi and Sanju, two of the highest-grossing Hindi films of the year. His first leading role was in the independent drama Masaan (2015), which earned him the IIFA and Screen Awards for Best Male Debut, following which he starred as an unhinged cop in Kashyap's psychological thriller Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016).

Aspiring to take up a career in film, he assisted Anurag Kashyap in the crime drama Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) and went on to play minor roles in two of Kashyap's productions. He is the recipient of a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award, and has appeared in Forbes India 's Celebrity 100 list of 2019.īorn to the action director Sham Kaushal and Veena Kaushal, Vicky pursued an engineering degree from the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology. Vicky Kaushal ( pronounced born ) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films.

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