Vikas Gupta (born 7 May 1988) is an Indian television producer, creative director, screenwriter and host. He is known for participating in '' Bigg Boss 11'' , '' Bigg Boss 14'' and hosting ''

MTV Ace of Space ''MTV Ace of Space'' is an Indian reality competition television series that airs on MTV India. Created and hosted by Vikas Gupta, it premiered on 20 October 2018. Series Season 1 ''Ace of Space 1'' is the first season of Indian reality comp ...

''.

Life

Gupta was born on 7 May 1988. He hails from

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. His brother,

Siddharth Gupta Siddharth Gupta (born 4 November 1993) is an Indian actor. He made his film debut with Ekta Kapoor's ''Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi'' directed by Aman Sachdeva in 2014. In 2017, he made his web debut with '' Ragini MMS: Returns'' as Rahul on A ...

, is an actor as well as a model. In June 2020, Gupta

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in an Instagram post. Gupta is also one of the directors of an NGO called ''Lost Boy Welfare Association'' that helps poor children.

Career

Gupta started working at the age of 17 in Balaji Telefilms as an actor He was the creative head of

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’s

Balaji Telefilms Balaji Telefilms is an Indian company that produces Indian soap operas, reality TV, comedy, game shows, entertainment, and factual programming in several Indian languages. Balaji Telefilms is promoted by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor and is a ...

for shows like ''

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'', ''

Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi ''Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'' ( ''Because a mother-in-law was once a daughter-in-law, too'') is an Indian Hindi-language soap opera that aired from 4 July 2000 to 7 November 2008 on Star Plus. The show was co-produced by Shobha Kapoor ...

'', ''

Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil ''Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil'' (''In Which Country Does My Heart Live'') is an Indian drama television series that aired on Star Plus. It starred Additi Gupta, Harshad Chopda, Sushant Singh Rajput and Meher Vij as Prem, Heer, Preet and Meher. ...

'' and ''

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''. Later, he started his own production studio ''Lost Boy Productions'' which has created popular television series like '' Gumrah: End of Innocence'', ''Warrior High'', ''

Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan ''Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan'' (''How Is This Friendship'') is an Indian television series that aired on MTV (Indian TV channel), MTV India from 21 July 2014 to 31 December 2015. A third season premiered on Voot on 15 May 2018 and a fourth season premie ...

'', ''

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'', ''

Yeh Hai Aashiqui ''Yeh Hai Aashiqui'' () is an Indian Hindi-language television romance anthology series that premiered on 25 August 2013 on Bindass. It presents dramatisations of the real life love stories created by Vikas Gupta. The show went off air on 7 Aug ...

'' and ''

MTV Webbed ''MTV Webbed'' is an Indian teen drama created by Vikas Gupta produced by Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor under their banner Balaji Telefilms. The series premiered on MTV India MTV India is an Indian pay television channel specialising in mus ...

''. Gupta has also been the youngest programming head of

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. In October 2017, Gupta participated in

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's '' Bigg Boss 11'' where he emerged as the second runner up of the season. Due to his performance, he was given the title of “Mastermind” on the show. In 2017, he produced ''

Class of 2017 ''Class of 2017'' is a 2017 Hindi web series created and produced by Vikas Gupta (producer), Vikas Gupta for Ekta Kapoor's video on demand platform ALTBalaji. The web series revolves around the lives of a few teenagers who get intertwined with ...

'' on

ALTBalaji ALTBalaji is an Indian subscription based video on demand platform which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Balaji Telefilms Ltd. Launched on 16 April 2017, ALTBalaji is the group's foray into the digital entertainment sphere to create original O ...

. In 2018, he hosted ''IIFA Buzz'' in Thailand for '' IIFA Awards 2018'' on

Voot Voot is an Indian subscription video on-demand and over-the-top streaming service, owned by Viacom18. Launched in March 2016, it is Viacom18's advertising-led video-on-demand platform that is available as an app for iOS, KaiOS ( JioPhone) an ...

. Gupta also created and hosted his own reality show titled '' Ace of Space'' on

. In 2019 he played

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As a proxy In 2019, he participated in Colors TV's '' Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 9'' in Argentina. He was disqualified from the show Next, he created ''

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'' for on ALT Balaji. In March, he reunited with his co-contestants

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, Aly Goni, Harsh Limbachiyaa among others to be a part of ''

Khatra Khatra Khatra ''The Khatra Khatra Show'' () (formerly known as Khatra, Khatra, Khatra and The Khatra Show) is an Indian comedy game show series starring Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa along with many guest stars that aired on Colors TV. The show is also ...

''. In May 2019, Gupta created anthology series ''Yeh Ishq Nahi Aasaan'' for

Dangal TV Dangal is a Hindi language general entertainment channel. It is a 24 Hours free to air channel. History Dangal was the most watched Hindi language channel in U+R category from week 13 of 2019 to week 26 of 2020. It is owned by Enterr10 Televi ...

. In August 2019, he returned as the host of MTV India's '' Ace of Space 2''. In February 2020, he created ''

Class of 2020 ''Class of 2020'' is a 2020 Hindi web series created and produced by Vikas Gupta for Ekta Kapoor's video on demand platform ALTBalaji. It stars Rohan Mehra and Joyita Chatterjee in lead roles. The web series revolves around the lives of a few t ...

'' for ALTBalaji. In November, he participated in Colors TV's '' Bigg Boss 14'', this time as a challenger. When co-contestant Arshi Khan involved Gupta's family in a fight, he pushed her and was thus expelled from the show. He re-entered the show soon after.

Filmography

Television

Web series

* 2017: ''

'' * 2019: ''

'' * 2020: ''

Television

Awards

References

External links

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