Tahir Raj Bhasin

Tahir Raj Bhasin
Tahir Raj Bhasin at Filmfare Awards 2014
Born	(1987-04-21) 21 April 1987 Delhi, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Actor & Model

Tahir Raj Bhasin is an Indian film actor and model. Bhasin made brief appearances in films in 2013 and 2014 before making his lead Bollywood debut in the 2014 Yash Raj Films' production, Mardaani, as the film's primary antagonist.

Early life

Tahir Raj Bhasin is an Indian film actor born to a Punjabi father and a Kashmiri-Maharashtrian mother and is the eldest of two siblings. Born into an Indian Armed Forces family, he was raised at Air Force bases around the country. His father and grandfather both served as fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force. Moving with his family during his adolescent years, Bhasin traveled across India and did schooling his Gwalior (MP), Jamnagar (Gujrat), Wellington (Tamil Nadu), Allahabad (UP), Chandigarh and New Delhi.

Bhasin started his fundamental acting training in New Delhi at the Barry John Acting School at the age of 15.^[1] He studied political science at Hindu College, University of Delhi and holds a Master's degree in media from the University of Melbourne, Australia with special papers in Screen Media and the History and Philosophy of Film. He subsequently worked at a premier national news production company in India.^[2]

Acting career

Bhasin moved to Mumbai at the age of 23 to pursue acting. For the next four years, which he describes as his struggling period, Bhasin trained extensively in body language and behavioral analytics at the Institute of Advanced Acting and Behavioral Studies and undertook intensive acting workshops at the Theatre Professionals Company, who draw their faculty from the National School of Drama, India.^[3] In 2013, he was part of a select group of Indian actors who were participants in a summer intensive acting and voice training program conducted by Naseeruddin Shah and the University of Melbourne at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (India).

Bhasin featured in four short films for the Film and Television Institute of India and the University of Melbourne Faculty of VCA and MCM (Victorian College of Art, Australia), and appeared in Indian television advertisements for companies like Samsung.

Debut and breakthrough (2013-present)

Bhasin made brief cameos in Abhishek Kapoor's Kai Po Che! (2013), One by Two (2014) and Kismat Love Paisa Dilli.

He made his lead Bollywood debut with Yash Raj Films' Mardaani (2014) opposite Rani Mukerji. The film, directed by Pradeep Sarkar, opened to positive reviews, and Bhasin's role as the primary antagonist was well-received, with critics praising his character's representation of a new, young, chilling face of crime in Indian cinema.^[4] Bhasin will next be seen with Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Chitrangda Singh in the upcoming film Babumoshai Bandookbaaz.^[5]

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Tahir Raj Bhasin at the Internet Movie Database