Arjun Mathur

Biography

Arjun Mathur is a British-born Indian actor. He trained with Barry John in New Delhi and at The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, New York. Before he started acting, he worked as an Assistant Director on several big-budget Indian films such as ‘The Rising – Mangal Pandey’, ‘Bunty Aur Babli’ and ‘Rang De Basanti’. Arjun was first discovered by Mira Nair and Farhan Akhtar simultaneously through their respective short films for the ‘Aids Jaago’ project, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2007. This was followed by some very powerful performances in mainstream Indian films like ‘Luck By Chance’, ‘My Name Is Khan’ and ‘Ankur Arora Murder Case’, as well as critically acclaimed independent features such as ‘Barah Aana’, ‘Coffee Bloom’, the National-Award winning ‘I Am’ and the English language film, ‘Fireflies’, for which he received a Best Actor nomination at the New York Indian Film Festival, 2013. In 2012, he garnered a lot of praise for the youth-centric mini-series, ‘Bring On The Night’. Arjun has appeared in numerous television commercials and was the brand-ambassador for the leading Indian lifestyle brand, ‘Godrej’ from 2013 till 2016. He was also seen in Channel 4’s British drama series, ‘Indian Summers’ as ‘Naresh Banerjee’.The 2018 Netflix original film, ‘Brij Mohan Amar Rahe’ saw Arjun completely step away from his image and wow audiences as the underwear salesman from Delhi who tries to fake his own death and fails miserably. He was last seen leading Zoya Akhtar’s Amazon original series, ‘Made In Heaven’, which has finally and truly proven to be Arjun’s breakthrough project. The show itself received worldwide audience and critical acclaim and Arjun especially, for his nuanced portrayal of a gay man living in urban India at a time when homosexuality was illegal. The series will return for a second season.