User:Rohit Kalia

Rohit Kalia is an Indian actor and model who appears in Telugu, Tamil and English films. He made his film debut as a lead actor with the 2013 Telugu film "NRI - Now Return to India". Later, appeared in a cameo role as Anushka Shetty's Fiance in Selvaraghvan's Tamil Feature Film "Irandam Ulagam". He is also the winner of Mr. India Australia 2014 title held in Sydney, Australia. In 2016, he appeared in a lead role in English Feature Film "Love & Love Only" opposite Australian actress Georgia Nicholas, directed by Julian Karikalan and music was given by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja in his first ever English feature film.

Background & education
Born in Pune to the North Indian parents in a punjabi family. His parents then moved from Pune to Ludhiana,Punjab where he grew up and studied at B.C.M. Arya Model School in Ludhiana. As a student, he was academically sound and excelled in Cricket, Table Tennis and Handball. Being brilliant in fielding in cricket he was selected as a goal keeper in Hand Ball game and represented his school team up to district levels. He was awarded first prize in All India level painting competition held by Camel (color) under 14 age group (Largest Art Competition in the World declared by The Guinness World Record). He is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering and studied it from Nagpur University in Raisoni College of Engineering. While in the third year of Engineering, he was awarded the "Best Male Model of Year" in 2003 at Nagpur. After completing his graduation he then joined India's leading multi-national IT company Infosys as a Software Engineer and later has worked as an IT Consultant in various cities of India, Canada and Australia.

Early career
It was while working in IT, where he first realised his acting potential. In 2009, he acted in a corporate short film in which his acting talent won accolades among the corporate people. This led him to explore himself as an actor and he begin to take acting more seriously and joined theatres in Chandigarh. He enrolled himself in Anupam Kher's Actor Prepare's School and bagged lead roles in various inhouse plays including a two hours long play "QuickSand" staged at Tagore Theatre, Chandigarh being watched by Mr. Anupam Kher. He continued theatres in Sydney to polish his acting skills and performed plays with Abhinay School of Performing Arts. In 2012, while performing in a Hindi Play Festival "Indradhanush" in Sydney, a Telugu Film director was impressed with his performance and soon offered him a lead role in his Telugu Feature film. Eventually,for the same theatrical play, he bagged the Best Actor "First Runner's Up" Award.

Films & Modelling
He made his acting debut as a lead actor in Telugu Feature film "NRI - Now Return to India". It was directed by Raghunandan Gudur, popular telugu actor Ahuti Prasad played the role of the father and Hema played his mother's role. Shraavya Reddy, Gundu Hanumantha Rao, Fish Venkat etc were the other actors in the film. In 2013, he acted in a cameo role as Anushka Shetty's fiance in Selvaraghvan's Tamil Feature Film Irandam Ulagam. He also featured in its popular song ''Kanimozhiye' with Anushka Shetty and Arya in lead roles.

In 2014, he was selected as the finalists of Mr. India Australia among various interstate contestants of Australia and emerged as a Winner of the first ever Mr. India Australia title. He was awarded the winning trophy by Australian Cricketer Gurinder Sandhu who was also one of the judge among six well-known judges working in their different respective fields in Australia. He also represented India in Cabrammatta Moon Festival Sydney and modelled along with Nationalists from other South East Asia nations.

In 2015, he was first selected for second lead in an English feature film but for the same movie he was later chosen in the Lead Role. He impressed the director with his acting skills, dedication and dialogue memorising skills. As, he sent his audition video of 120 pages long script in a CD to the director in less than a week's time after acting, directing and editing himself on his home camera along with working in his full time IT job. The entire movie was shot in weekends as most of the caste was involved in full time job in Sydney, Australia. The movie was named as "Love & Love Only" and got released in Australia on 24 Sep 2016. It was directed by Indian born Australian film director Julian Karikalan who is also the editor and producer of the film. Australian actress Georgia Nicholas played the lead actress in the film. The music is given by Maestro Ilaiyaraaja and this is his first English feature film as a music director. The songs were sung by the South Australian singer Rachael Leahcar and the background tracks were recorded in Prasad Studios, Chennai. The film also won two awards at the International Film and Entertainment Festival of Australia in 2015.