Jitendra Kumar

Jitendra Kumar is an Indian actor. He is best known for his role of Jitu in TVF Pitchers, Jeetu Bhaiya in the series Kota Factory, and for his roles in Amazon Prime's comedy series Panchayat and in the film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan. He has received several awards including two Filmfare OTT Awards. ^[1]

Jitendra Kumar
Jitendra in 2025
Born	Khairthal, Rajasthan, India
Alma mater	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2008-present
Known for	Kota Factory Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan Panchayat

Life and career

While studying civil engineering at IIT Kharagpur, Kumar started liking acting. Kumar has done many stage plays as the Governor of the Hindi Technology Dramatics Society at the IIT where he met Biswapati Sarkar, Executive Creative Director and Writer at The Viral Fever^[2] who eventually invited him to join TVF in 2012.^[3]

Kumar starred in Munna Jazbaati: The Q-tiya Intern in 2013 which instantly went viral and crossed 3 million views. Since then, he has portrayed several characters in TVF videos which includes Tech Conversations With Dad, A Day With, TVF Bachelors, Kota Factory and many others.^[4][5][6]

Apart from TVF videos on YouTube, Kumar has played a few significant roles in comedy sketches, movies and web series. He is predominantly famous for his character Jitendra Maheshwari, a frustrated corporate employee from TVF Pitchers, Gittu, a confused bridegroom from Permanent Roommates and Jeetu Bhaiya from Kota Factory. He made his film debut with Shuruat Ka Interval in 2014.^[7]

He starred as the lead in the web-series Panchayat on Amazon Prime. He plays Abhishek Tripathi, a young urban secretary of a Panchayat office in the rural town of Phulera, Uttar Pradesh. The series produced by TVF, has been widely praised by viewers and critics alike.

In 2020, he was seen as Aman Tripathi in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan opposite Ayushmann Khurrana^[8][9] and then he played Billu in Chaman Bahaar.^[10][11]

Filmography

Films

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Ref.
2014	Shuruaat Ka Interval	Laxman
2019	Gone Kesh	Srijoy Roy	[12]
2020	Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan	Aman Tripathi	[13][14]
	Chaman Bahaar	Prem Kumar "Billu" Yadav	[15]
2022	Jaadugar	Meenu Narang	[16][17]
2023	Dry Day	Gannu	[18]
2024	Lantrani	Babu Kamar	[19]

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2014	Permanent Roommates	Prateek		[20]
2015	TVF Pitchers	Jitendra "Jeetu" Maheshwari		[21]
2017	TVF Bachelors	Jeetu	Season 2	[22]
	Bisht, Please!	Girish Goyal
	F.A.T.H.E.R.S.	Jeetu
2018	Mr. & Mrs.	Viren	Season 1
2019	ImMature	Drama Teacher		[23]
	TVF Tripling	Himself	Season 2
	Humorously Yours	RJ Mastikhor Mishra		[24]
	Cheesecake	Neel		[25]
2019–2024	Kota Factory	Jeetu Bhaiya		[26]
2020–present	Panchayat	Abhishek Tripathi		[27]
2025	Bada Naam Karenge	Santosh 'Sunny' Khandelwal	Special appearance	[28]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2020	Filmfare OTT Awards	Best Actor (Comedy Series)	Panchayat	Won	[29]
2022	22nd Indian Television Academy Awards	Popular Actor - OTT		Nominated	[30]
			Kota Factory	Nominated	[30]
2022	Filmfare OTT Awards	Best Actor in a Series (Male): Drama		Nominated	[31]
		Best Actor in a Series (Male), Critics: Comedy	Panchayat	Won	[32]
2023	Bollywood Hungama Style Icons	Most Stylish Emerging Icon	—	Nominated	[33]
2024	Filmfare OTT Awards	Best Actor in a Series (Male): Comedy	Panchayat	Nominated	[34]
		Best Actor in a Series (Male): Drama	Kota Factory	Nominated	[35]