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Sudhanshu Pandey
Indian television actor (born 1974) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sudhanshu Pandey (Born 22 Aug 1974) is an Indian model, film and television actor, singer, writer producer and part time poet. He has appeared in many Hindi films and few Tamil films.
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After a successful modelling career,[2] he made his television debut with Beta, which aired in 1999. That same year, Pandey featured in the song, Maikhane se Sharab se from Pankaj Udhas 's Album Mahek. A year later, he made his film debut in Khiladi 420 as co-lead with Akshay Kumar. He then became part of India's first ever boy bandA Band of Boys. In 2002, his first album Yeh Bhi Woh Bhi was released. Pandey left A Band of Boys in 2005, as he needed to settle down financially,[3] but rejoined in 2024.
Pandey also regularly appeared in Tamil cinema throughout the 2010s, and portrayed his first main antagonist role in Billa II (2012) starring Ajith Kumar. He later followed that up with roles in Meaghamann (2014), Indrajith (2017) and 2.0 (2018), the most expensive Indian film at the time of its release.[4][5]
Pandey had a production house, named Raw Stock Production Private Limited, under which he produced a music video for his first single Teri Adaa in 2018, for which he also served as lyricist, as well as a short film named Fitrat in 2021, along with Tahir Baig, his second home production. Later he dissolved that company.
In 2020, he began portraying Vanraj Shah in Anupamaa, which popularized him among the Hindi-speaking audience.[6][7] However, he quit the series in August 2024, after four years.[8][9] In 2022, he reprised his role of Vanraj Shah in Anupamaa's eleven-episode prequel web series Anupama: Namaste America which streams on Disney+ Hotstar.[10]
His second solo single Dil Ki Tu Zameen was launched in 2023 in which he performed alongside Madalsa Sharma. He produced the song. In June 2025, he participated as contestant in the Prime Video's The Traitors India, where he finished at 4th place.[11]
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His mother is a Punjabi and in an interview, he identified himself as 'half-Punjabi'.[12]
Pandey is married to Mona Pandey and they have two sons, Nirvaan and Vivaan Pandey.[13][14]
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