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= Kinshuk Sen = Kinshuk Sen (born February 27, 1995) is an Indian actor and singer. He is best known for his work as Lt. Shiva Raina in Jiya Jaye and Hari Mohan Tripathi in Iktarfa. He is the son of the famous Indian singer Palash Sen best known as the founder and front-man of India's Rock/Pop band Euphoria.

Early life and education
Kinshuk Sen was born to Dr. Palash Sen and Dr. Shalini Sen in New Delhi, India. While his father is a famous singer, his mother is a scientist and a professor at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi. He is of Bengali and Dogra heritage on his father's side, and Punjabi on his mother's side. He has a younger sister, Kyna.

From Kindergarten to High School, Sen attended The Mother's International School where he graduated from in 2013. In school, He fell in love with the dramatic arts and started pursuing it on the side. He was able to sing for a few songs on Euphoria's albums, including Gully, Mehfuz, Sharnaagat, and Item, before officially joining their band in 2011 as a back-up vocalist. Sen also sang on the soundtrack for India's first major commercial family animated feature, Hanuman and a Bollywood film Aisa Yeh Jahan.

After finishing his high school in 2013, Kinshuk enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as a Cognitive Science major for the class of 2017. While at UCLA, Sen was heavily involved with theater and a capella groups. In 2016, he was cast as Benny in a production of In The Heights, where he was discovered by a management company, Rothman/Andrés Entertainment, that wished to sign him. In an interview, Kinshuk stated "I had never planned on becoming an actor in the West, however when this opportunity came along, it was almost like... let's give this a shot." He graduated from UCLA in 2017 with honors.

Career 2017–present:
In September of 2016, Kinshuk was cast as Lt. Shiv Raina in a short film called Jiya Jaye distributed by Royal Stag Large Short Films. The film was released in September 2017, and crossed a million views in March 2018 on YouTube and 2 million views on Facebook. The film, a first of its kind, was received very positively by critics and audiences alike. In 2017, Kinshuk was awarded the Best Actor in a Leading Role for Jiya Jaye at the Southern Shorts Awards in Atlanta, Georgia. Later that year, he signed on to be in a second short film to be distributed by Royal Stag Large Short FIlms called Iktarfa. The short film is set to release in May 2018.

Personal life
Growing up in a multicultural family made it difficult for him to identify with just one culture, but he says he was able to embrace all three heritages and experience them to the fullest. Kinshuk is a black belt is Seido Karate. He is also a grade 3 level pianist from Trinity College London. Additionally, Kinshuk was part of a choir under the tutelage of Pt. Ravi Shankar and Maestro Gerard Wirth, conductor of the Vienna Boys' Choir. His performances spanned the Rashtrapati Bhavan for the President of India, the Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna for the President of Austria, The Wiener Musikverein, just to name a few.

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