Ranvir Shorey

Ranvir Shorey
Shorey in 2015
Born (1972-08-18) 18 August 1972 (age 52)
Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Occupations
  • Actor
  • former video jockey
Years active1998–present
Spouse
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(m. 2010; div. 2020)​
Children1

Ranvir Shorey (born 18 August 1972) is an Indian actor and former video jockey. Since making his debut in Ek Chhotisi Love Story (2002), he has worked in both mainstream and independent cinema. His commercially successful ventures include Jism (2003), Lakshya (2004), Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), Singh Is Kinng (2008), Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Angrezi Medium (2020), and Tiger 3 (2023). He has also starred in the critically acclaimed films such as Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006), Traffic Signal and Bheja Fry (both 2007), Mithya (2008), Titli (2014), and A Death In The Gunj (2016).[1][2] He was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Sonchiriya (2019).[3]

Subsequently, he hosted Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 (2015) and Chalo Koi Baat Nahi (2021). He also appeared in various digital series such as Rangbaaz (2018), Sacred Games (2018-19), High and Hasmukh (both 2020), Metro Park and Tabbar (both 2021), and Sunflower (2021-24). In 2024, he participated in the reality show Bigg Boss OTT 3.[4]

Early and personal life

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He was born to Bollywood producer Krishan Dev Shorey[5] on 18 August 1972 in Jalandhar, Punjab. He has a brother named Lokesh Shorey.[6] Ranvir Shorey did his early schooling from Dayanand Model Sr. Secondary School, Jalandhar. Shorey is a close friend of actor and director Rajat Kapoor and actor Vinay Pathak.

Shorey with his ex-wife Konkona Sen Sharma at the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards.

Ranvir Shorey dated Pooja Bhatt. He married his longtime girlfriend actress Konkona Sen Sharma on 3 September 2010.[7] The couple got engaged in 2008 in an intimate ceremony at their Goregaon residence. The couple had son Haroon Shorey on 15 March 2011 at a South Mumbai hospital.[8] The couple later separated after five years of marriage. They still continue to remain friends and share the custody of their son.[9][10]

Career

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He started his career along with his friend and co-actor Vinay Pathak. He was the host of the successful talk show Ranvir Vinay Aur Kaun? and The Great Indian Comedy Show which aired on STAR One.[11]

He made his debut opposite Manisha Koirala in the film Ek Chhotisi Love Story (2002). His next film Jism (2003) was a hit but he had a minor role. It was not until 2006 that he got noticed in the comedy Khosla Ka Ghosla. The film was released to much acclaim and his comic role was praised.[citation needed] He played Nanoo in the comedy Pyaar Ke Side Effects alongside Rahul Bose as his funny friend. He appeared in the multi-starrer Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007) which was moderately successful. He appeared in a Yash Raj Films, titled Aaja Nachle which was released in November 2007. Mithya, which was released in February 2008, has Ranvir Shorey as the lead actor and has been critically acclaimed.[citation needed] In 2008, Ranvir was seen in movies like Ugly Aur Pagli and box office hit Singh Is Kinng.[12]

He hosted Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 7 in 2014, which aired on Colors (TV channel). [13]

In 2018, he starred in the short film Shame alongside Swara Bhaskar.[14] He also appeared in the 2019 film Sonchiriya alongside Sushant Singh Rajput, Ashutosh Rana and Manoj Bajpayee.[15]

Ranvir Shorey starrer Kadakh is a brilliant dark comedy which leaves the audiences glued to the screens.[16]

Shorey is currently a contestant on the reality TV show, Bigg Boss OTT Season 3. The series is streamed on JioCinema Premium. He entered the show on June 21, 2024.[17]

Filmography

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Films

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Year Title Role Notes
1999 Samne Yeh Kaun Short[18]
2002 Ek Chotisi Love Story Manisha's boyfriend
2003 Jism Vishal
Freaky Chakra The Writer
Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II Ranveer Shourie
2004 Lakshya Tarsem Singh
2005 Hum Dum Anthony
The Film Director Kaushik
2006 Shiva Daksh
Mixed Doubles Sunil Arora
Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota Sports Bar Manager
Pyaar Ke Side Effects Nanoo (Narayanan Balgopal Swami Iyer)
Khosla Ka Ghosla Balwant K. 'Bunty' Khosla
2007 Traffic Signal Dominic D'Souza
Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. Hitesh
Bheja Fry Asif Merchant
No Smoking Abbas Tyerwalla
Aaja Nachle Mohan Sharma
2008 Mithya VK/Raje Bhai
Sirf Akash
Ugly Aur Pagli Kabir
Good Luck A Jiglo
Singh Is Kinng Puneet
8 Arif Segment: "How can it be?"
Dasvidaniya Jagtap
Fashion Himself Cameo
2009 A Rectangular Love Story[19]
Chandni Chowk to China Chop Stick
Quick Gun Murugan Sansani Reporter Cameo
Thanks Maa M. C. Motwani
Do Knot Disturb A detective
Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi? Gagandeep 'Gags' Singh
2010 Aap Ke Liye Hum
The Film Emotional Atyachar Leslie
Kaam Ka Plot Dashrath Srivastava TV film[20]
I M 24 Gagandeep Singh
Iti Mrinalini Mahinder
2012 Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi Amol Ganguly
Fatso! Sudeep
Ek Tha Tiger Gopi Arya
Heroine Tapanda
Midnight's Children Laurel Canadian-British film
2013 Bombay Talkies Vicky's father
Bajatey Raho Ballu
Ankhon Dekhi Tourist photographer Uncredited cameo
2014 Happy Ending Montu
2015 Gour Hari Dastaan Rajiv Singhal
Titli Vikram
2016 Moh Maya Money Aman
2017 Blue Mountains Om Mehra
A Death In The Gunj Vikram
Gali Guliyan Ganeshi
Kadvi Hawa Banker
2018 Halkaa Ramesh
Manto Ishar Singh
2019 Sonchiriya Vakeel Singh
Tennis Buddies[21] Mr. Singh
Shame Sumer Seth Short[22]
2020 Angrezi Medium Balashankar Tripathi / Bablu
Kadakh Sunil
Lootcase Inspector Kolte
2021 420 IPC Savak Jamshedji
Murder at Teesri Manzil 302 Abhishek Deewan
2022 RK/RKay KN Singh / Ranvir
2023 Mumbaikar PKP (Prabal Kant Patil)
Tiger 3 Gopi Arya
Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa[23] Madhvan
2024 Accident or Conspiracy: Godhra Mahmood Qureshi
The Signature Hindi film[24]

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1998 Oye Host English language show[25]
House Arrest
1999 Saba
2000 Chat Room
2004–2007 The Great Indian Comedy Show Various Characters
2007 Ranvir Vinay Aur Kaun? Host
2012 Savdhaan India
2014 Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5 Contestant Reality show
Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 Host
2018 Rangbaaz Siddharth Pandey
2019 Sacred Games Shahid Khan
2019–2021 Metro Park Kalpesh Patel
2019 Bombers Debu
The Office Prem Chopra
Flip[26] Eros Now series; in the episode "Bully"
2020 High Jackson Lakda
Hasmukh Jimmy the Maker
PariWar Shishupal Narayan
A Suitable Boy Waris
Metro Park: Quarantine Edition[27] Kalpesh Patel
2021-2024 Sunflower Inspector S. Digendra ZEE5 series
2021 Tabbar Ajeet Sodhi
Chalo Koi Baat Nahi Host
2024 Bigg Boss OTT 3 Contestant Reality show
Shekhar Home[28] Jayavrat Sahni

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref.
2016 IBNLive Movie Awards Best Supporting Actor Titli Nominated [29]
2019 FOI Online Awards Sonchiriya Won [30]
IReel Awards Best Actor (Comedy) Metro Park Nominated [31]
Gold Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Comic Role Metro Park Won [32]
2020 Filmfare Awards Best Supporting Actor Sonchiriya Nominated [3]
2021 Asian Television Awards Best Supporting Actor Sunflower Nominated [33]

References

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  2. ^ "I Have Time But No Work: Actor Ranvir Shorey". News18. Archived from the original on 20 April 2019. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  3. ^ a b "Technical Nominations for the 65th Amazon Filmfare Awards 2020". Filmfare. 31 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Bigg Boss OTT 3: Ranvir Shorey Predicts Chandrika Dixit AKA Vada Pav Girl's Eviction - Watch". Times Now. 14 July 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Ranvir Shorey's father filmmaker KD Shorey dies at 92". Hindustan Times. 17 September 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Ranvir Shorey". BookMyShow. Retrieved 16 July 2014.
  7. ^ "Ranvir Shorey marry Konkona Sen". WorldSnap. Archived from the original on 7 September 2010. Retrieved 4 September 2010.
  8. ^ "Konkona-Ranvir blessed with baby boy". Times Of India. 16 March 2011. Archived from the original on 16 September 2018. Retrieved 16 March 2011.
  9. ^ "Konkona Sen Sharma, Ranvir Shorey announce separation". 14 September 2015. Archived from the original on 18 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  10. ^ "I hold myself responsible for my separation from Konkona, says Ranvir Shorey". 29 September 2015. Archived from the original on 11 September 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  11. ^ "Laugh Riot, an article from indiantelevision.com". Archived from the original on 23 August 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2007.
  12. ^ "Films: Ranvir Shorey | The List". film.list.co.uk. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  13. ^ "I'm not leaving Jhalak: Ranvir Shorey". India Today. 25 June 2014. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Anusha Bose: "Ranvir Shorey taught me to be ready to change the plan!"". Kovid Gupta Films. 2018. Archived from the original on 11 October 2020. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  15. ^ Bhatia, Uday (1 March 2019). "Film review: 'Sonchiriya' cuts to the bone". Livemint. Archived from the original on 1 March 2019. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
  16. ^ "Kadakh movie review: Ranvir Shorey-starrer is engaging enough to be watched in one go". The Indian Express. 18 June 2020. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  17. ^ "Bigg Boss OTT 3: When and where to watch..." Times of India/Bombay Times. Times Entertainment. 21 June 2024. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
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  20. ^ "Kaam Ka Plot". Amazon.
  21. ^ "Real tennis star Dakshata Patel to debut in Bollywood reel life with Tennis Buddies". Bollywood Features. 28 March 2019.
  22. ^ Rahul Desai (16 January 2019). "Shame Short Film Review: A Smartly Designed Short Marred By Its Dominant Tone Of Social Justice". Film Companion. Archived from the original on 9 July 2024.
  23. ^ "Vinay Pathak's & Rajat Kapoor's Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa Movie Review: A portrayal of interpersonal relationship". First Post. 3 November 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  24. ^ "Ranvir Shorey hugs his new iPhone gifted by Anupam Kher, calls it 'mere jigar ka tukda'. Watch". Hindustan Times.
  25. ^ "Showbiz Buddies". 19 June 2013. Archived from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 19 August 2019.
  26. ^ "Ranvir Shorey to feature in Eros Now's web-series 'Flip'". 7 March 2019. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
  27. ^ "Ranvir Shorey-starrer Metro Park to have quarantine edition". India Today. 21 May 2020.
  28. ^ "Shekhar Home OTT release date Jio Cinema: When to watch Kay Kay Menon-Ranvir Shorey's web series". India Times. 30 July 2024.
  29. ^ "IBNLive Movie Awards".
  30. ^ "FOI Online Awards".
  31. ^ "iReel Awards 2019: List of Nominees". News18. Retrieved 2 June 2021.
  32. ^ Srivastava, Anshika (12 October 2019). "Here's The Complete List Of Winners At The Gold Awards 2019! - Fuzion Productions". Fuzion Productions. Archived from the original on 3 August 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  33. ^ "2021 Nominees". Asian Television Awards. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
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