Naveen Kasturia

Naveen Kasturia (born 26 January 1985) is an Indian actor known for his work in TVF drama series - Pitchers.[1] He started his career working as an assistant director on the film Jashnn and then assisted Dibakar Banerjee on Love Sex Aur Dhokha and Shanghai. He also appeared as the lead actor in the critically acclaimed film Sulemani Keeda.

Naveen Kasturia
Born (1985-01-26) January 26, 1985
Otukpo, Benue State, Nigeria
NationalityIndian
Alma materNetaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi
OccupationFilm actor, Assistant director
Known forTVF Pitchers

Early life

Naveen was born in Otukpo, a small town in Nigeria. Though his family moved back to India when he was a year old. He was brought up in a joint family in Delhi. He did his schooling from Birla Vidya Niketan and engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) in Delhi. He directed a lot of skits/plays in his school and college days. After graduation, he joined an analytics firm called Inductis in Gurgaon in 2006, where he worked for two years before moving to Mumbai in 2008. In Mumbai, he worked with JP Morgan Chase for a very brief period of time before making a final switch to films.

Career

Naveen continued doing theatre after engineering. In 2007, Naveen and his college friends started a theatre company, Right Click Entertainment, and wrote and directed his first ticketed play Khel Khel Mein, which went housefull. He worked as an assistant director in Jashnn, produced by Vishesh Films.

Naveen got his first television commercial when he went to meet Dibakar Banerjee since he wanted to assist Dibakar Banerjee as an AD, and Banerjee asked him to work in his coke commercial. As of now, Naveen Kasturia has worked in many advertisements for various brands such as Vodafone, Mahindra, Tapzo app, Marathe Jewellers, True Value and so on. Later, he assisted Dibakar Banerjee in LSD and Shanghai, and Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović in an international film called Tigers.

In 2011, Amit Masurkar offered a movie to Kasturia, named Sulemani Keeda. Released in 2014, the movie proved to be a turning point in his career. Naveen did a few more sketches with The Viral Fever before Pitchers happened.

Films and Web
Year Title Worked as Role Notes
2009 Jashnn Assistant director Film
2010 Love Sex Aur Dhokha Assistant director Film
2012 Shanghai Actor & Assistant director Ranjan Film
2013 Skin Deep Actor Sanjay Short film
2013 Chai Sutta Chronicles Actor Siddharth Web series by TVF
2014 Tigers Third Assistant Director Film
2014 Interior Cafe Night Actor Young Boy Short film
2014 Sulemani Keeda Actor Dulal Film
2014 Stunt Boy Actor Short film
2015 TVF Pitchers Actor Naveen Bansal Web series by TVF
2015 Man's World Actor Bus passenger Web series by YFilms
2015 Chhoti Khushi Actor Elder son Short film by SonyLIV
2016 Loveshhuda Actor Kunal Film
2016 Pure-Veg Actor Arjun Short Film
2016 Half Ticket Actor Ayaan Short Film
2017 Social Series Actor Prithvi Web series by Viu
2017 Bose: Dead/Alive Actor Darbari Lal Web series by ALTBalaji
2018 Half Ticket 2 Actor Ayaan Short film
2018 Hope Aur Hum Actor Nitin Film
2018 Maya Actor Raunak Short film
2018 Turtle Actor Film
2018 The Good Vibes Actor Lakshya Tripathi Web series
2019 Malgook Bidro Actor Naveen Short film by Zee5
2019 Fuh se Fantasy Actor Sushil Web series by Voot
2019 Thinkistan Actor Amit Web series by MX Player
2019 Happily Ever After Actor Roneet Bagchi Web series by The Zoom Studios
2019 Parchhayee Actor Jimmy Web series by ZEE5
2019 Waah Zindagi Actor Film

References
  1. Barkha Kumari (22 October 2015). "From Pitch to Ted Talk". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 25 March 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2016.


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