Raj Mangal Singh Chaudhary is an Indian actor, screenwriter and film director.

Early life and career

Chaudhary was born in Darjeeling, India. After pursuing a career in modelling and earning his degree in software engineering from

BMS College of Engineering B.M.S. College of Engineering or Bhusanayana Mukundadas Sreenivasaiah College of Engineering (BMSCE) is a private engineering college in Basavanagudi, Bangalore, India. It was started in 1946 by Bhusanayana Mukundadas Sreenivasaiah and is ru ...

, he opened his own company in

Bangalore Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...

. When Chaudhary was defrauded by his business partners he took an opportunity to move to Mumbai in order pursue a new career in acting. Chaudhary was inspired to write his own script after seeing the film '' Satya'' with its script written by Anurag Kashyap. Drawing on experiences from his college days, he worked on his script which focused on the practice of

ragging Ragging is the term used for the so-called " initiation ritual" practiced in higher education institutions in the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The practise is similar to hazing in North America, in ...

, the physical and mental abuse of students in educational institutions. After the film in which he was supposed to appear fell through, Chaudhary took his script to director Kashyap who became his mentor. Kashyap wrote a new screenplay based on Chaudhary's original script for what would eventually become the film ''Gulaal''. In addition to his work on ''Gulaal'', Chaudhury also assisted on the set of '' Black Friday'' while playing a minor role and wrote the short story on which '' No Smoking'' is based. He appeared in the 2003 film ''Kuch Naa Kaho'' which starred

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and

Abhishek Bachchan Abhishek Bachchan (born 5 February 1976) is an Indian actor and film producer known for his work in Hindi films. Part of the Bachchan family, he is the son of actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan and the grandson of poet Harivansh Rai Bach ...

. He next appeared in Sushil Rajpal's film ''

Antardwand ''Antardwand'' () is a 2010 Indian film co-written, produced and directed by Sushil Rajpal. The film stars Raj Singh Chaudhary and Swati Sen in the leading roles while Vinay Pathak and Akhilendra Mishra play supporting roles. Made on a budget ...

'' which won the 2007 National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues and was released in 2010; his upcoming project is the Irffan Khan, Abhay Deol starrer ''Karmaya''.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chaudhary, Raj Singh Indian male film actors Living people People from Darjeeling Male actors in Hindi cinema 1975 births