Ranvir Shorey
Name: Ranvir Shorey
Birthdate: 18th of August, 1972
Zodiac: Leo
Marital Status: Ranvir Shorey tied the knot to actress Konkona Sen Sharma on the 3rd of September, 2010 at their Goregaon residence. Next year on the 15th of March Konkona gave birth to Haroon, their first child. Initially he used to date actress Pooja Bhatt.
Biography: Ranvir Shorey, the Indian actor and VJ was born on the 18th of August in the year 1972. He did his schooling from the Dayanand Model Sr. Sec School situated in Jalandhar. Vinay Pathak and Rajat Kapoor are close friends to this actor.
Initially he used to host two television shows along with Vinay Pathak: ‘The Great Indian Comedy Show’ and ‘Ranvir Vinay Aur Kaun?’. His very first film in B town was in the year 2002 when he starred in Shashilal K. Nair’s romantic flick ‘Ek Chotisi Love Story’ starring Manisha Koirala and Aditya Seal in the lead roles. This film failed to create much of an impact at the box office. The following year he did a very small role in the hit film ‘Jism’, directed jointly by Amit Saxena and Aditya Prakash Singh and starring Gulshan Grover, Bipasha Basu and John Abraham in the lead roles. After ‘Jism’, he did a list of films such as ‘Freaky Chakra’, ‘Waisa Bhi Hota Hai II’, ‘Lakshya’, ‘Hum Dum’, ‘Shiva’, ‘Mixed Doubles’, ‘Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota’, but he could not quite get the recognition till in the year 2006 when he starred in the comedy drama flick, ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’directed by Dibakar Banerjee and starring Ranvir Shorey, Vinay Pathak, Boman Irani, Parvin Dabas and Anupam Kher. This film which was released on the 22nd of September, 2006 was a huge hit and Ranvir’s comic role in the film was greatly appreciated by all. The very same year, he also starred in Saket Chaudhary’s ‘Pyaar Ke Side Effects’ starring Mallika Sherawat, Rahul Bose and Ranvir Shorey himself. Here Ranvir donned the comic role of Narayanan Iyer. Next up he appeared in Reema Kagti’s comedy drama film, ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.’, starring Diya Mirza, Raima Sen, Shabana Azmi, Kay Kay Menon, Abhay Deol, Boman Irani and Minissha Lamba. This multi-starrer film which was released on the 23rd of February in 2007 was moderately successful at the box office. The very same year he had also worked for a Yash Raj Films project ‘Aaja Nachle’, starring Madhuri Dixit, Kunal Kapoor, Jugal Hansraj, Konkona Sen Sharma and Akshaye Khanna in the lead roles. Ranvir played the lead in Rajat Kapoor’s 2008 film, ‘Mithya’ starring Vinay Pathak, Naseeruddin Shah and Neha Dhupiya. His performance in the film was greatly appreciated by the critics. He followed this up with a series of other films such as ‘Ugli Aur Pagli’, ‘Good Luck’, ‘Singh is Kinng’, ‘8’, ‘Dasvidaniya’, ‘Fashion’, ‘A Rectangular Love Story’, ‘Chandi Chowk to China’, ‘Do Knot Disturb’, ‘Aap Ke Liye Hum’, ‘Emotional Atyachar: The Film’, ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ and ‘Winds of Change’.
