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Dhruv Sharma
Indian cricketer and actor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dhruv Sharma (1982 – 1 August 2017) was an Indian Kannada-language actor and cricketer.
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Acting career
Dhruv Sharma played a small role in Yahoo (2004).[2] He made his debut as a lead actor with Snehanjali (2007), which won the Guinness Book of World Record for the first film to have a deaf-mute person in the lead role.[3] The film received mixed reviews but Dhruv's performance was praised.[4] His next film was the Malayalam-Kannada film The Hitlist (2012) in which he played the antagonist. The film had a low-key release and notably featured Mohanlal in a voiceover.[5] The film released to negative reviews with a critic opining that his performance was one of the saving graces.[6]
In 2013, he co-starred Soumya Bollapragada and Venkatesh Prasad in the romantic comedy Neenandre Ishta Kano. A critic felt that Dhruv was good but that Venkatesh Prasad outshone him.[7] He played a minor role opposite Neha Patil and co-starring his father in Thippaji Circle (2015), a film based on the life of a devadasi.[8] He played one of the leads in the cricket film Bangalore 560023 (2015) co-starring Karthik Jayaram, Chandan Kumar, Rajeev and Chikkanna.[9] In 2018, he starred posthumously in Kicchu (2018), which was based on the issue of deforestation and featured Sudeep in a cameo.[1] The film was notable for also featuring Abhinaya, another deaf-mute actor.[10] The film released to mixed reviews with a critic writing that the film "might not be a drama that keeps you in the edge of your seat, but it has its heart set in the right place".[11] His final film Looty (2018), which featured him opposite Shweta Pandit, released to highly negative reviews.[12]
Cricket career
In 2005, he played for India at the Deaf Cricket World Cup.[13] In 2011, he joined the Karnataka Bulldozers of the Celebrity Cricket League after being noticed by Salman Khan.[14] In 2013, he was the vice captain of the team, which was headed by Sudeep.[15] He was named the Man of the Tournament in a 2016 game that his team won against the Telugu Warriors.[16]
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Personal life
Dhruv Sharma was born to businessman and actor Suresh Sharma.[13] He is deaf-mute in Bangalore and found it difficult to follow college lectures after taking some computer science classes.[13] Dhruv died on 1 August 2017.[17][18]
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