Shaleen Bhanot

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Shaleen Bhanot is a TV actor (from Jabalpur) who came to Mumbai on a business trip and ended up as an actor as on the reality show Hero Honda Roadies on the MTV India channel. From this success he has appeared in several Indian TV series and movies.

After his MTV appearance journey, he appeared in the TV serials Saat Phere on Zee TV, Kulvaddhu on Sony TV where he was admired in a negative role as ‘Agni’. He has also done a cameo on the show Kaajjal on Sony TV, and currently he is being seen on STAR Plus channel's serial Sangam.

He is best remembered for his wife-beating act in ‘Saat Phere’ and is now gaining popularity in the serial Naaginn on Zee TV.

He made his Debut in the show Saat Phere as Karan who falls in love with Shubhra. He is most popularly known as Agni. His character Agni gave him a lot of fame and brought him into lime light.

Saat Phere, Kulvaddhu, Kaajjal, and Sangam are his popular serials and he has also starred in the movie Pyaare Mohan. He is one of the few men to wear "kajal".

Profile

* Name: Shaleen Bhanot
* Birthdate: November 15, 1982
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* Horoscope: Scorpion

Career

He seems to be the new kid on the block. Shaleen Bhanot. You see him, currently, as the rich, spoilt brat Karan in Zee TV’s Saat Phere - Saloni Ka Safar and also in Hungama TV’s Sanya where he plays the boy next door, Mihir. ‘‘I just started off a while ago and the going is good. Both my characters are very interesting and, luckily for me, they are both very different from each other. If Karan is the hardcore, negative, rich cool dude who’s landed in jail, then Mihir in Sanya is the very sweet, good-hearted, nice boy,’’ smiles Shaleen.

Acting is a new twist in Shaleen’s life. He used to handle his family business in Jabalpur till he landed in Mumbai for a business tender ‘‘which got delayed and took up more time. So I stayed back in Mumbai for about a month. I enrolled in Kishore Namit Kapoor’s acting classes,’’ he recalls. That’s what we would call destiny. After the classes, Shaleen went for the MTV Hero Honda Roadies audition and got selected. ‘‘Great fun it was. I was one of the roadies and travelled from Calcutta to the Wagah border on a bike,’’ he recalls. After that, fortunately for the young actor, he also got selected in the talent hunt for MTV’s Kitni Mast Hai Zindagi where he played one of the leads - Rajat. ‘‘It was an amazing experience. Initially, I found it difficult to adjust to waiting hours in between shots, but I settled down,’’ smiles Shaleen.

Television Shows

# "Rang – The Colours of Love as ... (Zee Next, 2008)
# "Sanya (Sitcom) as Mihir (Hungama TV, 2008)
# "Naaginn as Kanishk/Keshav (Zee TV, 2007)
# "Sangam as Madan (Star plus, 2007)
# "Dill Mill Gaye -*cameo role* (2007)
# "Kaajjal as Shivansh Kapoor -*cameo role* (Sony TV, 2006)
# "Kulvaddhu as Agni (Sony TV, 2006)
# "Saat Phere as Karan (Zee TV, 2005)
# "Aahat as ghost (Sony TV)

Films

*"Pyare Mohan" (April 21, 2006)
*"Devdoot" (Bengali Film)

References

* eXPRESS iNDIA [http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=173546]