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He was born on 22nd August, 1972, in an Aggarwal’s family in the lanes of Chandni Chowk, Delhi-6,

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Father’s Name: Late Prem Narain Aggarwal

Mother’s Name: Krishna Kumari Aggarwal

Sibling: One Sister (Late Neelam Mittal)

Initial years of his life and schooling days were all spent in Delhi-6. He completed his schooling from ABNER MEMORIAL School at Firoz Shah Road, New Delhi and BCOM HONS From Hansraj University. He was selected in college through Dramatics Quota.

He was actively involved in outdoor activities from local games to other games like Volleyball and Cricket. He used to take volleyball coaching while studying in school from I.G. Stadium, which was at that time named Indraprastha Stadium, New Delhi. He was very fond of volleyball and appeared for Sub-Junior Level selection in 1984. Unfortunately, Mrs. Indra Gandhi (Prime Minister at that time) was assassinated on the same day of the competition, as a result the competition was called off.

After completing his 10th standard in school, he started doing theatre. His theatre passion started with a group ‘Sakshi’, which was performing a play at that time called ‘A View from the Bridge’ written by Arthurmiller and directed by Krishnakanth(k.k). This was his first play in which he was in back stage and did all sorts of back stage works during rehearsals and show days. He luckily got a small part to come on stage as an actor with seniors like Saurabh Shukla. Then from there onwards his journey started as an actor and he was dabbling in modelling also. He did plays as an actor with eminent theatre personalities and actors like Mr. Shilendr Goyal, Mr. Ranjit Kapoor and many more.

He did TV Commercials (at that time) for Hero Cycles, Thermo King and many more and press campaign for Snow White, BonTon, and many Fashion Designers. During this stint, he was introduced to Ms. Neena Gupta through his director friend who was making a documentary on ‘Bazaar Sitaram’, a prominent place in New Delhi. She was looking for a boy opposite her in the documentary and luckily, he was selected for the part. Later the documentary a National award in ‘Best First Non-Feature Film of Director’. From then onwards while staying in Delhi, he was getting offers for serials but he had some other plans in his mind to see himself on silver screen as a hero.

In the year 1993, he packed his bag and moved to Mumbai, there he was offered many serials like, ‘Saans’, ‘Parampara’ and others but he refused. But after struggling for 2 years, when he didn’t get chance in Bollywood, he moved to TV Serials.

His first TV Show came on ZeeTV named ‘Zameer’ written and directed by Mr.Rajeev Agarwal which featured Moonmoon Sen as his Mother and Mohan Golchale as his Father. There he got his first break as a main actor in a series. Later on he did many shows like ‘Gumrah’ for DD directed by Neena Gupta, ‘Maano Ya Na Maano’ directed by Smritah Talwarkar and produced by Ekta Kapoor (Balaji Telefilms). He shot for a serial which was directed by Manoj Punj and produced by Satish Kaushik’s company. He also shot for a serial produced by Amitabh Bachchan Corporate limited (ABCL). But a lot of serials were shelved without being telecast.

In year 1996, his father expired. So he had to decide between coming back home to look after his father’s business (of Artificial Leather), his mother and married sister or pursue his career in acting. He chose the former.

On 6th December 1997, he got married to Mrs. Ysha R Aggarwal. Then in 1998 his first son was born, named Gouransh Aggarwall. After that he had a son and a daughter, Neelansh Aggarwall and Kiaa Aggarwal in 2000 and 2003, respectively.

Later on, with the help of family support his wife studied Astrology, Numerology, Palmistry, Tarot Card Reading and Vastu Consultancy. In few years, she became a renowned practitioner in these fields. ( http://yshaastro.in/ )

His wife predicted of his acting career along with his business. In 2012, he started acting in plays again. His comeback play was ‘Ek Ghhoda 6 Sawaar’ directed Mr. Ranjit Kapoor. He acted in various plays, some are ‘Hiroshima’ and ‘Baaki Itihaas’ both written by Baadal Sirkar and directed by M.K. Raina, which were performed in various festivals like, ‘Bharat Rang Mohatsava – International Theatre Festival’.

He produced and directed plays like, ‘Ek Ghhoda 6 Sawaar’, ‘In Search of The Magic Lake’ and ‘Vaah! Mr. Koi Nhi’.