''Upstarts'' is an

Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

comedy-drama Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical ...

film directed by Udai Singh Pawar and Produced by Janani Ravichandran and Jawahar Sharma. The film stars Priyanshu Painyuli, Chandrachoor Rai and Shadab Kamal in the lead roles and follows the story of three college graduates who create a startup and the events that follow. It was released on 18 October, 2019 on

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. ''Upstart'' was announced by Netflix among the nine films to be made by them.

Raja Krishna Menon Raja Krishna Menon is an Indian film writer, director and producer. He started as an advertisement director and later moved to feature films. He has directed three Bollywood films. His most recent film Chef was released on 7 October 2017. Ea ...

served as the creative producer.

Cast

Priyanshu Painyuli Priyanshu Painyuli is an Indian actor and model who appears in Bollywood films. In 2020, he appeared in Netflix original '' Extraction'', an American action-thriller film and '' Mirzapur 2'', an Amazon Prime Video action crime thriller series. ...

as Kapil *Chandrachoor Rai as Yash *

Shadab Kamal Shadab Kamal is an Indian actor. He played the male lead in the 2012 film '' B.A. Pass'', opposite Shilpa Shukla. He also acted in the 2018 film '' Gaon:The Village No More''. Career Indian actor Shadab Kamal began his career in 2011 with the ...

as Vinay *Sheetal Thakur as Jaya *

Mrinal Dutt Mrinal Dutt is an Indian actor and model who primarily works in Hindi films and Hindi television along with web shows. He made his acting debut with '' Roomies'' in 2009 and had his breakthrough with ''Private Investigator''. He made his film d ...

as Ajay Bansal *

Rajeev Siddhartha Rajeev Siddhartha (born 11 April 1986) is an Indian actor. His work spans productions across film, television, theatre and digital web series. Siddhartha began his career in 2007 with the film ''Dil Dosti Etc'' and received critical acclaim as ...

* Ivan Rodrigues as Investor 3 * Ninad Kamat *Swati Semwal *

Eijaz Khan Eijaz Khan (born 28 August 1975) is an Indian film and television actor. He rose to fame by playing the lead roles in Balaji Telefilms serials ''Kkavyanjali'', and '' Kyaa Hoga Nimmo Kaa''. He appeared in the leading role of Raidhan Raj Katara ...

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* 2010s Hindi-language films 2019 comedy-drama films 2019 direct-to-video films 2019 films Films about businesspeople Hindi-language Netflix original films Indian direct-to-video films {{2010s-Hindi-film-stub