# Taaruk Raina

Taaruk Raina is an Indian actor, singer, songwriter and composer. He is known for his portrayal of Anmol Malhotra in Mismatched.

## Early life

Raina has been singing since he was six years old. He grew up listening to a lot of rock music, rap, heavy metal, and ghazals, and used to sing in his school choir as well. Lacking technical knowledge about music, he began learning via YouTube. After some years, he started performing gigs at bars and weddings.

## Career

In 2015, began working as Aditya Chopra's assistant at Yash Raj Films for Befikre.
He then performed in theatre plays, notably as the lead character in an Indian adaptation of Disney’s Aladdin, where he had to act in front of a live audience and sing iconic numbers.
In 2018, he made his film debut in High Jack as Parth. The following year, in 2019, he appeared in ZEE5's Dhumrapaan and Kaand.
In February 2020, he starred in MX Player's relationship-drama Pawan & Pooja as Pawan opposite Natasha Bharadwaj. In June 2020, he also featured in the short film Purple. Since November 2020, he has been portraying Anmol Malhotra in the Netflix teenage romantic drama Mismatched, where he acted as well as composed two songs for the show. He was next seen in Sony Music India's song "Sukoon", featuring himself opposite Aisha Ahmed.
In 2021, he appeared in the Netflix mini-series Aryan & Meera as Aryan opposite Zayn Marie Khan.
In 2022, he featured in two web shows, ZEE5's The Broken News, and Amazon Prime Video's Jugaadistan. In the same year, he also portrayed Rishi Kapoor's son Vinayak Sharma in Sharmaji Namkeen.
In January 2023, Raina released his first independent single, "Narazi". In May 2023, he was a part of Audible's podcast series called Desi Down Under, along with Adarsh Gourav and Prajakta Koli, directed by Mantra, where the story is set in Sydney about three 20-year-olds from Mangalore who go to Australia to learn surf-lifesaving skills at Coogee Beach.
In March 2025, he was seen playing advocate Kantilal Sahni in Ram Madhvani's historical drama The Waking of a Nation, a story about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, on SonyLiv.
He will next be seen in Danish Renzu's musical drama Songs of Paradise.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2015 | Befikre | — | Assistant director |
| 2018 | High Jack | Parth | |
| 2019 | Dhumrapaan | Owen | |
| 2019 | Kaand | Unnamed | Teleplay |
| 2020 | Purple | Neil | Short film |
| 2022 | Sharmaji Namkeen | Vinayak "Vincy" Sharma | |
| TBA | Songs of Paradise † | TBA | |

### Web series

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2020 | Pawan & Pooja | Pawan Srivastav |
| 2020–present | Mismatched | Anmol Malhotra |
| 2021 | Aryan & Meera | Aryan Khanna |
| 2022 | The Broken News | Anuj Saxena |
| 2022 | Jugaadistan | Lucky Kohli |
| 2025 | The Waking of a Nation | Kantilal Sahni |

### Dubbing

| Year | Title | Role | Language | Ref. |
| 2023 | Desi Down Under | Rahul | English | |

### Music videos

| Year | Title | Singer | Ref. |
| 2025 | "Raazdaariyan" | Sagar Bhatia | |

## Discography

| Year | Title | Film/Series | Co-singer | Music | Lyrics |
| 2018 | "Happy Ending Song" (Version 1) | High Jack | Sumedha Karmahe | Rajat Tiwari | Akarsh Khurana |
| 2018 | "Happy Ending Song" (Version 2) | High Jack | Manasi Mulherkar | Rajat Tiwari | Akarsh Khurana |
| 2020 | "Sukoon" | Single | — | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania, Bruno Gonçalves Mota | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania |
| 2020 | "Main Chala" | Mismatched (season 1) | Chaitanya Sharma alias SlowCheeta | Himself | Shwetang Shankar |
| 2022 | "Kho Gaye" | Mismatched (season 2) | — | Himself | Himself |
| 2023 | "Narazi" | Single | — | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania |
| 2023 | "Kaise Banu" | Single | — | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania |
| 2023 | "Kalleyan" | Single | Akasa Singh | Akasa Singh | Himself, Akasa Singh |
| 2024 | "Lost and Found" | Single | — | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania |
| 2024 | "Majboor" | Single | — | Himself | Himself |