Kunal Vijaykar
Kunal is an Indian film actor, director, and television personality who hosts the food show The Foodie on Times Now and comedy-spoof show The Week That Wasn't on CNN IBN with Cyrus Broacha. And now writes, directs and performs along with Cyrus Broacha in "The Other Week That Wasn't" on Comedy Central
Early life
He studied at St. Mary's School, Mumbai. He then received his Bachelor's degree from Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai.
Career
Kunal started out by appearing in various TV commercials and appeared in supporting roles in many Hindi movies, including Duplicate (1998) by Mahesh Bhatt, Paisa Vasool (2004), and Salaam Namaste (2005) with Saif Ali Khan and Preity Zinta.
He played the role of a journalist in the Hindi film Ghajini (2008) and was seen as Kunal in Little Zizou (2009), a story of the Parsi community.
He is the host of the channel Times Now show titled The Foodie, which features him travelling around the country sampling exotic foods. His weekly satire comedy show The Week The Wasn't, with comedian Cyrus Broacha on CNN IBN completed eight years and 450 episodes in 2015.[1] He does a sketch show with Cyrus Broacha, Cyrusitis, written and directed by Broacha.[2]
Vijayakar debuted as a screenwriter and director in 2009 with Fruit and Nut, a comedy starring Dia Mirza, Cyrus Broacha, Boman Irani, and Mahesh Manjrekar.[3][4]
Since 2011, he also writes the fortnightly humour column, Funda Mental, in The Week magazine.
Has just written his first cookbook "Made in India" published by Jaico
Filmography
Actor
- Duplicate (1998)
- Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003)
- Paisa Vasool (2004)
- Ab Tak Chhappan (2004)
- Jo Bole So Nihaal (2005)
- Salaam Namaste (2005))
- Ghajini (2008)
- Little Zizou (2009)[5]
- Fruit and Nut (2009)
Director
- Fruit And Nut (2009)
References
- ↑ Two to tickle!: Together, Cyrus Broacha & Kunal Vijayakar can whip up quite a laughing storm The Indian Express, 7 November 2009.
- ↑ The Time Out-Mint Planner Mint (newspaper), 24 September 2009.
- ↑ Biography Champak.com.
- ↑ Kunal gets nutty again! TNN, The Times of India, 25 October 2009.
- ↑ Filmography Bollywood Hungama.