Raj Singh Chaudhary
{{short description|Indian director, actor and screenwriter}}
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| name = Raj Singh Chaudhary
| image = Photo Of Raj Singh Chaudhary From The Premiere of Antardwand.jpg
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| caption = Chaudhary in 2010
| birth_name = Raj Singh Chaudhary
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1975|07|13}}
| birth_place = Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
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| alma_mater = B.M.S. College of Engineering,B.M.S. Institute of Technology and Management
| occupation = {{hlist|Actor|screenwriter|film director}}
| years_active = 2003–present
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Raj Singh Chaudhary is an Indian actor, screenwriter and film director.{{cite news|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-05/news-interviews/28166339_1_gulaal-software-firm-true-story|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103062346/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-05/news-interviews/28166339_1_gulaal-software-firm-true-story|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2012|title=There's no stopping Raj|date=5 May 2009|first1=Roshni|work=The Times of India|last1=Mukherjee}}{{Cite web |date=2022-05-02 |title=‘I never knew I’ll be making a film which is very Clint Eastwood’: Thar director Raj Singh Chaudhary |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/web-series/thar-harsh-varrdhan-kapoor-anil-kapoor-netflix-director-raj-singh-chaudhary-7897688/lite/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2022-04-27 |title=Director Raj Singh Chaudhary opens up on shooting Anil Kapoor's Thar in the rugged Rajasthan desert |url=https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/director-raj-singh-chaudhary-opens-up-on-shooting-anil-kapoors-thar-in-the-rugged-rajasthan-desert-10604031.html/amp |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Firstpost |language=en-us}}
Early life and career
Chaudhary was born in Darjeeling, India. After pursuing a career in modelling and earning his degree in software engineering from BMS College of Engineering, he opened his own software company in Bangalore{{citation needed|date=June 2021}}. When Chaudhary was defrauded by his business partners, he took an opportunity to move to Mumbai to pursue a new career in acting. Chaudhary was inspired to write his own script after seeing the film Satya with its script written by Anurag Kashyap. Drawing on experiences from his college days, he worked on his script which focused on the practice of ragging, the physical and mental abuse of students in educational institutions. After the film in which he was supposed to appear fell through, Chaudhary took his script to director Kashyap who became his mentor.{{cite news | last= Jha | first= Sumit | title= Anurag is more than Godfather to me | url= http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-03-27/news-interviews/28023489_1_raj-singh-chaudhary-first-film-godfather | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110811034656/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-03-27/news-interviews/28023489_1_raj-singh-chaudhary-first-film-godfather | url-status= dead | archive-date= 11 August 2011 | date= 27 March 2009 | work= The Times of India | access-date=9 April 2009 }} Kashyap wrote a new screenplay based on Chaudhary's original script for what would eventually become the film Gulaal. Chaudhary played the lead character and earned praise.{{cite web | title= Raj Singh Chaudhury: Gulaal changed my life | url= http://www.starboxoffice.com/newsDetails.aspx?xfile=2009/April/News_20090403_16 | date= 4 April 2009 | publisher=StarBoxOffice.com | access-date=9 April 2009 }} In addition to his work on Gulaal, Chaudhary also assisted on the set of Black Friday while playing a primary character and wrote the short story on which No Smoking is based. He next appeared in Sushil Rajpal's film Antardwand which won the 2007 National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues and was released in 2010;
Filmography
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| rowspan="2" | Year
! rowspan="2" | Title ! colspan="2" | Functioned as ! rowspan="2" | Notes |
|---|
| Director
! Writer |
| 2007
! scope="row"| No Smoking | {{no}} | {{yes}} | |
| 2009
! scope="row" | Gulaal | {{no}} | {{yes}} | |
| 2019
! scope="row" | The Last Chapter | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Short film |
| 2021
! scope="row" | Shaadisthan | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Hotstar film |
| 2022
! scope="row" | Thar | {{yes}} | {{yes}} | Netflix film |
=Acting credits=
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| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003
! scope="row" | Kuch Naa Kaho | Ajay Sehgal | | |||
| 2004
! scope="row" | Black Friday | Mushtaq Tarani | | |||
| 2009
! scope="row" | Gulaal | Dileep Singh | | |||
| rowspan=3|2010
! scope="row" | Ek Anhonee | Josheph "Tiger" Rodriguez | | |||
| scope="row" |The Waiting Room
| Karan | | |||
| scope="row" |Antardwand
| Raghuveer | | |||
| 2018
! scope="row" | Plus Minus | Jeet | Short film |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1758779}}
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Category:Indian male film actors
Category:People from Darjeeling