Madhur Mittal (born February 20, 1991) is an Indian actor. He is best known for his character 'Tito' in the TV serial

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and his performance as Salim Malik in the film ''

Slumdog Millionaire ''Slumdog Millionaire'' is a 2008 British drama film that is a loose adaptation of the novel '' Q & A'' (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup. It narrates the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai. Starring Dev Pa ...

'', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2008 and for which he won the

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Early life and career

Madhur was born in

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In 1997, Madhur won ''Boogie Woogie'' a popular reality-based dance show on television. Shortly after, his family moved to

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where he joined AVM High for his schooling and Madhur forayed into acting and dancing on stage in charity shows, cultural events and film-award ceremonies. He traveled the world performing in over 950 stage shows. As a child actor he worked in well known Hindi films like '' One Two Ka Four'', ''

Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye ''Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye'' () is a 2000 Indian Hindi-language romantic comedy film starring Salman Khan and Rani Mukerji and directed by K. Muralimohana Rao. This is a remake of the 1998 romantic comedy film ''The Wedding Singer'' starring Ada ...

'', and more recently '' Say Salaam India''. He has also acted in several TV shows including ''Shaka Laka Boom Boom'', '' Kasauti Zindagi Ki'', ''Jalwa'', ''Chamatkar'', ''Prithviraj Chauhan'' and ''Dastak''. Madhur Mittal's role in ''

'' has helped him to gain worldwide attention. To prepare himself for the role of Salim in ''Slumdog Millionaire'' after being cast he hung out with some of the ‘gangsters’ in Mira Road "to get into their heads". Director Danny Boyle gave him a series of the Godfather to watch as that had a crazy brother in it. Also, he had an accident which led him getting 12 stitches which helped with the rough look, he said. He had to grow his hair long, increase his skin tan and lose weight to act as Salim. In 2008 he was nominated for the

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for Best Ensemble and in 2009, along with the entire cast of ''Slumdog Millionaire'' he won the

at the

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. He was also set to be present for the

66th Golden Globe Awards The 66th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television of 2008, was broadcast on January 11, 2009, from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, United States on the NBC TV network. The broadcast was watched by approx ...

and the

.Little big winners
,

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20 February 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2009. Mittal plays Anwar Razdan in the second series of '' Kidnap and Ransom'' which aired on

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from 23 February 2012. Most recently, he starred in the Disney film '' Million Dollar Arm'' as

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and received good reviews for his performance as the villain in Maatr (2017). Mittal, in the year 2020, did a web series named ''High'' on the OTT platform '' MX Player'' and gained some good reviews for that role.

Awards and honours

Won *2009:

for ''

'' Nominated *2008:

- Best Ensemble for ''

Filmography

Web

Television

References

External links

Slumdog Millionaire, official site
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Freida Pinto and Madhur Mittal Interview - Filmicafe.com
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