# Vishal Vashishtha

Vishal Vashishtha (born 13 February 1992) is an Indian television actor. He has starred in various shows like Crazy Stupid Ishq, Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera, Gangaa, Vish and Ishq Mein Marjawan 2.

## Life

Vishal Vashishtha was born on 13 February 1992 in Kolkata, India. While initially planning on a career as a Chartered Accountant, an interest in acting led him to audition for a career on the Small Screen. Besides English, he is also fluent in Hindi and Bengali. Vishal married his childhood sweetheart, Deepakshi Mishra.

## Career

Vishal's foray into Hindi television industry was with Sphere Origins's youth drama Crazy Stupid Ishq in 2013 broadcast on Channel V India as 'Ayaan Dixit' alongside Hiba Nawab, Harsh Rajput and Aneri Vajani. The same year, he appeared in an episode of MTV Webbed (Ep.11).
He later starred in Yash A Patnaik's Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera on Star Plus(2013), portraying the character of 'Baldev Singh' opposite Digangana Suryavanshi. His performance gained him the Zee Gold Award for Best Male Actor in a Comic Role. In 2015, he featured as 'Anil' in the fifth episode of Yeh Hai Aashiqui created by Vikas Gupta and broadcast by Bindass. In the final quarter of 2015, Vishal joined the cast of &TV's Television Drama Series Gangaa starring as 'Sagar Chaturvedi' opposite Aditi Sharma, for this performance he was nominated for Best Actor at Zee Gold Awards. He exited the series in January 2017.
Vishal's next project was rom-com Jaat Ki Jugni, broadcast on Sony Entertainment Television from April to July 2017 wherein he was paired opposite (Madirakshi Mundle). In January 2018, he was cast as the titular protagonist Shaurya Gupta (Kanhaiya) in Jai Kanhaiya Lal Ki on Star Bharat. Vishal next signed on to star in the finite series Vish: A Poisonous Story (May 2019) on Colors TV. The show co-starred Debina Bonnerjee, Krip Suri and Sana Makbul.
Reuniting with Patnaik, he essayed the lead antagonist role in the romantic thriller Ishq Mein Marjawan 2 on Colors TV as 'Kabir Sharma' 2020 to March 2021. In March 2021, the show ended on TV and shifted to the digital platform Voot by airing a new season named Ishq Mein Marjawan 2: Naya Safar with him reprising his role of Kabir Sharma.
In July 2021, Vishal joined the lead cast of Dice Media's "Clutch" - India's first Esport Web-Series. The first episode streamed on 2 October 2021 and the finale episode streamed on 4 November 2021. The series was received with a good reception on YouTube and got a year end special mention for one of the highest viewed YouTube India web series of 2021.
He started 2022 with the shoot of his new webseries tentatively titled 'Ghar Waapsi' produced by Dice Media. In April and May 2022 a string of his YouTube videos were uploaded by FilterCopy and Pocket Change. His OTT debut 'Ghar Waapsi' premiered on Disney+ Hotstar on 22 July 2022.

## Filmography
### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2013 | Crazy Stupid Ishq | Ayaan Dixit | Lead Role |
| 2013 | MTV Webbed | Daksh | Episode 11 |
| 2013–2015 | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Baldev Balwant Singh | Lead Role |
| 2015 | Yeh Hai Aashiqui – Sun Yaar Try Maar | Anil | Episode 5: "Courtroom Romance" |
| 2015–2017 | Gangaa | Sagar Niranjan Chaturvedi | Lead Role |
| 2017 | Jaat Ki Jugni | Bittu Daljeet Singh Dahiya | Lead Role |
| 2018 | Jai Kanhaiya Lal Ki | Shaurya "Kanhaiya" Ramnik Gupta | Lead role |
| 2019 | Vish | Aditya Vir Kothari | Lead Role |
| 2020–2021 | Ishq Mein Marjawan 2 | Kabir Sharma | Negative Lead |

### Web series

| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Broadcast By |
| 2021 | Ishq Mein Marjawan 2: Naya Safar | Kabir Sharma | Negative Lead | Voot |
| 2021 | Clutch | Arun Wankhede | Lead role | Dice Media |
| 2022 | Ghar Waapsi | Shekhar Dwivedi | Lead role | Disney+ Hotstar |
| 2024 | Showtime | Prithvi | | Disney+ Hotstar |
| 2024 | Hustlers | | | Amazon Mini |

### Music video

| Year | Title | Role | Label |
| 2019 | Uske Bina | Himself | Zee Music |

### Short films

| Year | Title | Role | Level |
| 2019 | Name Plate | Pratyaksh sharma | Blush |

### YouTube videos

| Year | Title | Role | channel |
| 2019 | When you date a Bengali guy | Himself | Filtercopy |
| 2019 | Is it necessary to get married | Himself | Filtercopy |
| 2019 | Things you shouldn't say to your partner | Himself | Filtercopy |
| 2020 | Jon snow ki shaadi ka rishta | Himself | Filtercopy |
| 2020 | Shaadi aaj kaal : a wedding story | Himself | Filtercopy |
| 2020 | When you love buying things online | Himself | Filtercopy |
| 2021 | Shaadi at 4 am | Jai | Filtercopy |
| 2021 | 3 Stages Of Long Distance Relationship | Sameer | The Zoom Studio |
| 2022 | Money Conversations Between Couples | Himself | Filtercopy |
| 2022 | Our Happy Place: When You Move To A New City | Uday | Filtercopy |
| 2022 | When You Plan A Housewarming With Your Partner | Uday | Filtercopy |
| 2022 | How To Survive Traffic | Kabir | Pocket Change |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Nominated work | Result |
| 2014 | Zee Gold Awards | Best Actor in A Comic Role (Male) | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Won |
| 2014 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Best Actor Comedy | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Nominated |
| 2014 | Indian Telly Awards | Best Fresh New Face Male | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Nominated |
| 2014 | Indian Telly Awards | Best Tellywood jodi with Digangana Suryavanshi | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Nominated |
| 2014 | Star Parivaar Awards | Favourite Jodi | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Nominated |
| 2014 | Star Parivaar Awards | Most Stylish Sadasya - Male | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Nominated |
| 2014 | Star Parivaar Awards | Sabse Mazedaar Sadasya | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Nominated |
| 2014 | Star Parivaar Awards | Best Naya Sadasya - Male | Ek Veer Ki Ardaas...Veera | Nominated |
| 2016 | ZEE Gold Awards | Best Actor | Gangaa | Nominated |
| 2017 | Indian Television Academy Awards | Best Actor Popular | Jaat Ki Jugni | Nominated |
| 2018 | ZEE Gold Awards | Best Actor | Jaat Ki Jugni | Nominated |