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Sidharth malhotra (born 16 january 1985)[1][2] is an indian actor and former model who seems in bollywood movies. Malhotra started out a career as a version at the age of 18. Disappointed by the profession, he went directly to work as an assistant director to karan johar within the 2010 film my name is khan. He made his acting debut with a main role in johar's comedy-drama student of the year (2012), for which he acquired a filmfare award for fine male debut nomination.

Malhotra played an aspiring businessman inside the seriously praised comedy-drama hasee toh phasee in 2014, following which he starred as a hardened crook in the romantic mystery ek villain (2014) and an aspiring creator within the family drama kapoor & sons (2016). The latter two rank among malhotra's maximum-grossing movies, with a worldwide gross of over ₹1 billion (us$16 million) every

Early life and film debut
Born in delhi, into a punjabi circle of relatives,[3] to sunil, a former captain within the merchant army, and rimma malhotra, a homemaker.[4] he became schooled at delhi's don bosco school and birla vidya niketan,new delhi, and later attended shaheed bhagat singh college.[5] on the age of 18, malhotra began modelling. Despite the fact that he changed into a hit, he determined to give up after four years due to the fact he turned into upset with the profession.[6]

Involved to pursue an appearing career, he efficaciously auditioned for a film to be directed via anubhav sinha. But, the film changed into shelved, following which he labored as an assistant director to karan johar at the 2010 movie my call is khan.[5][7] in 2012, malhotra made his performing debut with johar's scholar of the 12 months along varun dhawan and alia bhatt. He changed into solid as abhimanyu singh, a scholarship scholar of restricted financial means, who competes along with his rich first-class pal rohan (performed by means of dhawan) to win an annual school championship. Movie critic rajeev masand of cnn-ibn taken into consideration malhotra's overall performance to be "earnest", adding that he had "a pleasant presence."[8] scholar of the yr become a financial achievement,[9] grossing ₹seven hundred million (us$eleven million) domestically.[10]

Malhotra become next paired opposite parineeti chopra and adah sharma for the romantic comedy hasee toh phasee (2014), which tells the affection tale of a drug-abusing scientist and an under-confident aspiring businessman. Mohar basu of koimoi determined his performance to be "restricted" and defined his chemistry with chopra as "active" and "heartfelt"; saibal chatterjee of ndtv praised his screen presence and compared it to the early work of amitabh bachchan.[11][12] the film accomplished reasonably well on the box office, with global revenues of ₹620 million (us$9.6 million).[