Khesari Lal Yadav
Shatrughan Kumar Yadav (born 15 March 1986), known professionally as Khesari Lal Yadav, is an Indian actor, singer, dancer and model associated with Bhojpuri cinema. He was awarded "Best Popular Actor" at the Bhojpuri Film Awards 2016, and "UP Ratan Award" in 2017. In 2019, he got "Best Actor Award" In Sabrang Film Awards and Bhojpuri Cinema Screen and Stage Awards for 2018 Superhit film "Sangharsh". He has been on the YouTube's "Music Charts & Insights" list of top global artists for more than 200 weeks with more than 8 billion views. In his career he has  worked with many leading artists including Badshah, Shipra Goyal, Pankaj Tripathi, Sona Mohapatra, Mudassar Khan and Sandeepa Dhar. Yadav began his career in late 2000s as a singer. After getting popular from his hit albums, his breakthrough as an actor came in the film "Saajan Chale Sasural" (2011). After that he appeared in many hit movies like "Lahoo ke do rang" (2012), "pyar kawno khel na ha" (2012), "Chhapra Express" (2013), "Lahoo pukarela" (2014), "Khesari ke Prem Rog" (2015). He made his Bollywood debut as a singer in 2014 by singing a song titled "AK-47" in the film Koyelaanchal. His  second work in Bollywood was in Global Baba (2016), in which he sung and made a cameo in the song "Holi Me Ude". In 2018, he won the "Best Actor (Male)" and "Best Playback Singer (Male)" award in Sabrang Film Awards for his role and singing in Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna. In 2019, he again won four awards for his role in the film Sangharsh. His other films in this period are Mai Sehra Bandh Ke Aaunga (2017), Damru (2018), Bhag Khesari Bhag (2019). In 2019, he participated in the reality show "Bigg Boss 13". In 2020, his third Bollywood  song and first Bollywood single "ladki patana" released by Sony Music India which was followed by "Tere Mere Darmiyaan" in 2021. Soon after, He collaborated with Badshah to recreate the "Pani Pani" song in Bhojpuri language. In 2022, he made his debut as a screenwriter with his film "Aashiqui". Life. Khesari Lal Yadav was born as Shatrughan Kumar Yadav on 15 March 1986 in Dhanadih village of Saran district of Bihar in a poor family. He was not born in his own house, as his parent's mud house had collapsed in the rain, and they had to rent a  pucca house, where they gave birth to Khesari. His father, Mangaru Lal Yadav, used to sell Chana, as a street vendor in the morning and did the duty of security guard in the night. Khesari is one of the seven siblings, 3 of them are his own brothers and 4 are his uncle's son; whose mother passed away very early and khesari's mother raised them up. His father used to earn in Delhi and he used to live with his mother and uncle in Chhapra. Later his mother also left for Delhi to help her husband with household  works and Khesari started living with his siblings and uncle. Khesari used to graze Cattles and sell their milks in his childhood. He is married to Chanda Devi. They have a son and a daughter. During 1998-99 Khesari started his career as a theatre artist in Bhojpuri theatres, where he used to sing in Ramayana and Mahabharata, he also learnt the famous Bhojpuri folk dance Launda Naach. Later he also moved to Delhi, where he started selling Litti Chokha with his parents and wife. With the money saved after selling Litti-chokha, He launched his first album by spending  ₹12,000 but it was a big flop. After that he started working as a servant in Guddu Rangeela's house, who was a famous Bhojpuri singer in those days, after savings some money, he again spent ₹25,000 to launch his second album which got better response from audience and he got some fame. After that he started getting investments in projects from various music companies, but he had to do the marketing by his own. He told in many of his interviews that he himself used to promote his album cassettes in many districts of Bihar and UP , he used to go by train and wherever singing and dancing programs were held during the day or at night. He used to give some money to the sound operator there and ask him to play his song. He told that some people would agree but some people used to abuse and ask them to leave. He also told that sometimes he did not even have money to eat, so he used to sleep without eating. Acting career. Early years (2012-2016). In 2012, he made his acting debut in Bhojpuri film Sajan Chale Sasural, in which he played the  lead role as Sajan, a village boy who goes to town to marry the girl with which his marriage had fixed in his childhood. Between 2012 and 2016 he did 42 Bhojpuri movies including "Nagin" (2012), "Ae Balma Biharwala" (2013), "Chhapra Express" (2013), "Pratigya 2" (2014) and Khiladi (2016), which won four awards at Sabrang Film Awards 2017. Establishment and bollywood debut (2016-present). In 2016, he made his Bollywood debut in the movie Global Baba, in which he sung a song titled "holi me ude" and performed in it too with Sandeepa Dhar and Pankaj Tripathi. For his role  in Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna (2017); which is a remake of the Telugu film Aadavari Matalaku Arthale Verule; he won the awards for best actor and best playback singer at Sabrang Film Awards 2018. After doing successful films like Mai Sehra Bandh Ke Aaunga (2017), Muqaddar (2017), Damru (2018), Dulhan Ganga Paar Ke (2018), he gained many appreciations for his film Sangharsh (2018), which was a film with a social massage supporting the slogan Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao. The film won 19 awards at different award shows. He did more hit films like Balam Ji Love You (2018), Naagdev (2018 ), Dabang Sarkar (2018), Coolie No. 1 (2019). His film Baaghi- Ek Yoddha was a patriotic movie which also talked about the Muzaffarpur shelter case. He also did a Sports film named Bhag Khesari Bhag (2019). In 2019, He also made his television debut by participating in the reality show Bigg Boss as a contestant. His movie Mehandi Laga Ke Rakhna 3 (2020) is the remake of the Tamil film Velaiilla Pattadhari. His Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye (2021) was his first movie to be shot abroad, 90% of the film was shot in London. His 3 more film in  2021 were shot abroad; "Chori Chori Chupke Chupke" and "Pyar Kiya to Nibhana" were shot in London where as "Saiyaan Arab Gaile Na" was shot in Dubai. His first film of 2022 was "Aashiqui", in which he made his debut as screenwriter and played the role of a upper caste boy who goes against the traditional values for his love. Music career. In his early days, he used to sing in the Ramayan and Mahabharat. His first album was released in 2008. Some of early famous songs are "Saiyaan Arab Gaile Na", "Piyawa Rahele Saudi Re Bhauji", "Maal Bhetai Mela  Me". In 2014, he made his Bollywood Debut as a singer in the song "AK-47" from Koyelaanchal. In 2016 he sang his second Bollywood song "Holi Me Ude" for the film Global Baba. In 2017, he won the award of "Best Playback Singer", at Sabrang Film Awards. His notables songs that year were "Kawna Devta Ke Garhal Sawaral" and "Jaan Gaini E Ho Jaan". In 2018, he released in one of the most popular song "Thik Hai". In 2020, he released his third Bollywood song and first Single "Ladki Patana" produced by Sony Music India. 2021. In 2021, his second  Bollywood single "Tere Mere Darmiyaan" was released. Khesari collaborated with Bollywood Rapper Badshah in the Bhojpuri version of the famous Hindi song "Pani Pani", originally sung by Aastha Gill and Badshah himself. The Bhojpuri version was released under Saregama and Badshah rapped in Bhojpuri language. The song received more than one million views within 60 minutes of being uploaded on YouTube, and became the first Bhojpuri song to do so. He worked with singer and Music Composer Shipra Goyal in his next Bollywood single "Romantic Raja", choreographed by Mudassar Khan and lyrics written by Kunaal Vermaa. His other Hindi single  was "Tedhi Hai Par Meri Hai" and Bhojpuri singles were "Ladkiyo Ka Rog Na Paalo", "Naya Saal Naya Maal". 2022. He sang the song "Do Ghoont" which was his first Bhojpuri single of 2022. The song was the remake of the song "Do Ghut Mujhe bhi Pila De Sharabi" from the 1973 Bollywood film Jheel Ke Us Paar. Soon after he released another single "Aashiq", video of which was shot in Germany. After releasing some Holi songs he released "Dream Me Entry". He sung six songs in his film "Aashiqui" and released 23 Holi songs. His first Hindi single of  the year, "Kamariya Coca Cola" released in April 2022 by T-Series.