Arjit Taneja

**Arjit Taneja** is an Indian television actor and model. He made his television debut with the _V The Serial_ and then appeared in the reality shows _MTV Splitsvilla 6_ and _Box Cricket League 1_ and TV fiction dramas _Kumkum Bhagya_, _Kaleerein_ and _Bahu Begum_. Taneja is frequently cited as one of the most desirable and attractive celebrities in Indian television industry. He is been rumoured to be in relationship with actress Anjum Fakih.

### Early life and career beginnings (1992–2014)

Arjit Taneja belongs to a Punjabi family. He attended modern school, Delhi and was graduated with a BA degree in computer programming at University of Delhi.

In November 2010, he joined the modelling agency Elite Model Management India Pvt. Ltd. 2 years later in mid-2012, Taneja moved from Delhi to Mumbai and began his acting career on television that year as the friend of Karan Kundra's character in Channel V India's _V The Serial_, produced by Ekta Kapoor.

In 2013 he collaborated with Kapoor on Sony TV's _Bade Achhe Lagte Hain_, where he had a very small role. Also he contested in MTV India's _MTV Splitsvilla 6_ and later in Sony TV's _Box Cricket League 1_, the latter of which was his third with Kapoor.

### Breakthrough and establishment (2014–present)

Taneja's career finally saw a turning point when he signed the parallel lead role of Purab Khanna in Zee TV's popular daily soap _Kumkum Bhagya_, created by Kapoor. He won the Best Supporting Actor award at the Zee Gold Awards, and exited the show in 2016. In 2017, Arjit then moved to Indonesia for a few months where he was cast as lead in the Indonesian show ' Nadin ' (ANTV) alongside his former co-star from Kumkum Bhagya Mrunal Thakur and Indonesia Actress Dewi Persik.

Simultaneously along with _Kumkum Bhagya_, he was seen as Bilal Khan in another Kapoor production—Sony TV's _Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do_ in 2015. In 2016, he did Zing's _Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya_ and participated in Colors TV's _Box Cricket League 2_ produced by Kapoor.

In February 2018, Taneja began essaying the main character of Vivaan Kapoor in Zee TV's _Kaleerein_. It went off air in November 2018. In May 2018, he also appeared as a guest in Zee TV's talk show _Juzz Baatt_ with Sana Saeed, Adnan Khan and Karan Jotwani.

His next TV series was Colors TV's love triangle-themed _Bahu Begum_ which premiered in July 2019. In the show Taneja was cast as Azaan Akhtar Mirza, the Nawab of Bhopal. Due to low viewership, _Bahu Begum_ culminated in January 2020.

In January 2021, he bagged the grey-shade cameo role of Farishta, an angel in the supernatural revenge thriller _Naagin 5_ and reprised the same role in February 2021 for _Kuch Toh Hai: Naagin Ek Naye Rang Mein_, both of which were aired on Colors TV and created by Kapoor.

Arjit Taneja is currently seen as 'Shambhu' in his latest show "Nath Zewar Ya Zanjeer" which officially aired on August 23rd, 2021 on Dangal TV.

### Television

|Year|Title|Role|Notes|Ref(s)|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2012|_V The Serial_|Himself|||||
|rowspan="2"|2013|_MTV Splitsvilla 6_|Contestant||||
|_Bade Acche Lagte Hain_|Unknown|Special appearance|||||
|2014–2015|_Box Cricket League 1_|Contestant|||||
|2014–2016|_Kumkum Bhagya_|Purab Khanna|||||
|rowspan="2"|2015|_Pyaar Ko Ho Jaane Do_|Bilal Khan||||
|_Bad Company_|Himself / Guest||||||
|rowspan="2"|2016|_Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya_|Himself / Host||||
|_Box Cricket League 2_|Contestant||||||
|rowspan="5"|2018|_Kaleerein_|Vivaan Kapoor||||
|_Juzzbaatt – Sangeen Se Namkeen Tak_|Himself / Guest||||||
|_Kundali Bhagya_|rowspan="3"|Guest (as Vivaan)|Dance performance||||
|_Zindagi Ki Mehek_|rowspan="6"|Special appearance|||||
|_Guddan Tumse Na Ho Payega_|||||||
|2019–2020|_Bahu Begum_|Azaan Akhtar Mirza|||||
|rowspan="3"|2019|_Api & Cinta_|Sunjoy||||
|_Bepanah Pyaar_|rowspan="3"|Guest (as Azaan)|||||
|_Shakti - Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki_|||||||
|2020|_Choti Sarrdaarni_|Dance performance in News Years Special|||||
|rowspan="2"|2020-21|_Naagin 5_|rowspan="2"|Farishta|||
|_Kuch Toh Hai: Naagin Ek Naye Rang Mein_|Guest special appearance||||||
|2021-2022|_Nath: Zevar Ya Zanjeer_|Shambhu|||||
|2022-2023|Banni Chow Home Delivery|Agastya Kapoor|||||
|2023|Kaise Mujhe Tum Mil Gaye|Virat Singh Ahuja|||||

### Music Videos

|Year|Song|Singer|Company/Label|Ref.|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2018|_Main Jaandiyaan_|Meet Bros, Neha Bhasin, Piyush Mehroliyaa|MB Music||
|2019|_Naseeba_|Shaan|Zee Music Company||
|_Farishta_|Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Asees Kaur||||
|2020|_Ik Dafa To Mil_|Oye Kunaal|Nexus Records||

## Awards and nominations

|Year|Award|Category|Work|Result|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2016|Zee Gold Awards|Best Supporting Actor|Kumkum Bhagya||
|2018|Most Fit Actor (Male)||||

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Arjit Taneja
- **image**: Arjit Taneja at Box Cricket League launch 2014 (cropped).jpg
- **image size**: 250px
- **caption**: Arjit in 2014
- **nationality**: Indian people, Indian
- **years active**: 2012–Present
- **height**: 173 cms