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Sachin Tyagi
Indian television actor and singer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sachin Tyagi is an Indian Hindi television actor and singer, he is known for playing Manish Goenka in India's longest running daily soap Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai for more than 8 years. He is married to actress Rakshanda Khan.
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Personal life
Tyagi belongs to Hindu Brahmin family from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.[1][2]
Tyagi has two daughters from his first marriage.[3] He met actress Rakshanda Khan in 2006, on the set of the show Kuch Apne Kuch Paraye.[4] They dated for seven years and got married in 2014.[5][6] Khan gave birth to their daughter in December 2014.[7]
In August 2020, Tyagi tested positive for COVID-19,[8][9] but he recovered by September.[10][11]
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Tyagi came to Mumbai in 1993, initially working as a car trader; he aspired to become a singer.[12] He launched an album in 2003, which according to him "did fairly well".[2] He subsequently ventured into acting in television shows, beginning with Family Business and Tumhari Disha (both 2004).[2][13] Trained in classical music by maestro Upendra Verma, he won the singing reality show Jjhoom India in 2007, alongside his partner Madhushree, beating Varun Badola.[2][13]
Tyagi played Ravana in the 2012 television adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayana.[12] The fantasy show The Adventures of Hatim (2013) featured him as King Hubal, opposite Nausheen Ali Sardar.[14] He also appeared as Rishi Mathur in Tere Sheher Mein (2015),[15] and as Shekhar Gadodia in Swaragini – Jodein Rishton Ke Sur (2015–16).[16]
Tyagi gained prominence with his portrayal of Manish Goenka in Rajan Shahi's TV series Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. Tyagi had been playing Manish Goenka since 2016, making his role span 3 generations of the longest-running daily soap of India.[17] He played Kartik Goenka's father, Akshara Sharma's grandfather and Abhira Poddar's great-grandfather in the series.[18] In May 2025, following a 7-year leap in the series, his character was shown shifted to Japan, after which he has not made any appearance in the show, confirming his exit.
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