Ranvir Shorey

Ranvir Shorey (born 18 August 1972) is an Indian actor and former video jockey. Since making his debut in Ek Chhotisi Love Story (2002), he has worked in both mainstream and independent cinema. His commercially successful ventures include Jism (2003), Lakshya (2004), Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007), Singh Is Kinng (2008), Ek Tha Tiger (2012), Angrezi Medium (2020), and Tiger 3 (2023). He has also starred in the critically acclaimed films such as Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006), Traffic Signal and Bheja Fry (both 2007), Mithya (2008), Titli (2014), and A Death In The Gunj (2016).^[1][2] He was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for Sonchiriya (2019).^[3]

Ranvir Shorey
Shorey in 2015
Born	(1972-08-18) 18 August 1972 (age 52) Jalandhar, Punjab, India
Occupations	Actor former video jockey
Years active	1998–present
Spouse	Konkona Sen Sharma ​ ​ (m. 2010; div. 2020)​
Children	1

Subsequently, he hosted Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7 (2015) and Chalo Koi Baat Nahi (2021). He also appeared in various digital series such as Rangbaaz (2018), Sacred Games (2018-19), High and Hasmukh (both 2020), Metro Park and Tabbar (both 2021), and Sunflower (2021-24). In 2024, he participated in the reality show Bigg Boss OTT 3.^[4]

Early and personal life

He was born to Bollywood producer Krishan Dev Shorey^[5] on 18 August 1972 in Jalandhar, Punjab. He has a brother named Lokesh Shorey.^[6] Ranvir Shorey did his early schooling from Dayanand Model Sr. Secondary School, Jalandhar. Shorey is a close friend of actor and director Rajat Kapoor and actor Vinay Pathak.

Shorey with his ex-wife Konkona Sen Sharma at the 53rd Annual Filmfare Awards.

Ranvir Shorey dated Pooja Bhatt. He married his longtime girlfriend actress Konkona Sen Sharma on 3 September 2010.^[7] The couple got engaged in 2008 in an intimate ceremony at their Goregaon residence. The couple had son Haroon Shorey on 15 March 2011 at a South Mumbai hospital.^[8] The couple later separated after five years of marriage. They still continue to remain friends and share the custody of their son.^[9][10]

Career

He started his career along with his friend and co-actor Vinay Pathak. He was the host of the successful talk show Ranvir Vinay Aur Kaun? and The Great Indian Comedy Show which aired on STAR One.^[11]

He made his debut opposite Manisha Koirala in the film Ek Chhotisi Love Story (2002). His next film Jism (2003) was a hit but he had a minor role. It was not until 2006 that he got noticed in the comedy Khosla Ka Ghosla. The film was released to much acclaim and his comic role was praised.^{[citation needed]} He played Nanoo in the comedy Pyaar Ke Side Effects alongside Rahul Bose as his funny friend. He appeared in the multi-starrer Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. (2007) which was moderately successful. He appeared in a Yash Raj Films, titled Aaja Nachle which was released in November 2007. Mithya, which was released in February 2008, has Ranvir Shorey as the lead actor and has been critically acclaimed.^{[citation needed]} In 2008, Ranvir was seen in movies like Ugly Aur Pagli and box office hit Singh Is Kinng.^[12]

He hosted Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa season 7 in 2014, which aired on Colors (TV channel). ^[13]

In 2018, he starred in the short film Shame alongside Swara Bhaskar.^[14] He also appeared in the 2019 film Sonchiriya alongside Sushant Singh Rajput, Ashutosh Rana and Manoj Bajpayee.^[15]

Ranvir Shorey starrer Kadakh is a brilliant dark comedy which leaves the audiences glued to the screens.^[16]

Shorey is currently a contestant on the reality TV show, Bigg Boss OTT Season 3. The series is streamed on JioCinema Premium. He entered the show on June 21, 2024.^[17]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Samne Yeh Kaun		Short[18]
2002	Ek Chotisi Love Story	Manisha's boyfriend
2003	Jism	Vishal
	Freaky Chakra	The Writer
	Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II	Ranveer Shourie
2004	Lakshya	Tarsem Singh
2005	Hum Dum	Anthony
	The Film	Director Kaushik
2006	Shiva	Daksh
	Mixed Doubles	Sunil Arora
	Yun Hota Toh Kya Hota	Sports Bar Manager
	Pyaar Ke Side Effects	Nanoo (Narayanan Balgopal Swami Iyer)
	Khosla Ka Ghosla	Balwant K. 'Bunty' Khosla
2007	Traffic Signal	Dominic D'Souza
	Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd.	Hitesh
	Bheja Fry	Asif Merchant
	No Smoking	Abbas Tyerwalla
	Aaja Nachle	Mohan Sharma
2008	Mithya	VK/Raje Bhai
	Sirf	Akash
	Ugly Aur Pagli	Kabir
	Good Luck	A Jiglo
	Singh Is Kinng	Puneet
	8	Arif	Segment: "How can it be?"
	Dasvidaniya	Jagtap
	Fashion	Himself	Cameo
2009	A Rectangular Love Story[19]
	Chandni Chowk to China	Chop Stick
	Quick Gun Murugan	Sansani Reporter	Cameo
	Thanks Maa	M. C. Motwani
	Do Knot Disturb	A detective
	Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi?	Gagandeep 'Gags' Singh
2010	Aap Ke Liye Hum
	The Film Emotional Atyachar	Leslie
	Kaam Ka Plot	Dashrath Srivastava	TV film[20]
	I M 24	Gagandeep Singh
	Iti Mrinalini	Mahinder
2012	Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi	Amol Ganguly
	Fatso!	Sudeep
	Ek Tha Tiger	Gopi Arya
	Heroine	Tapanda
	Midnight's Children	Laurel	Canadian-British film
2013	Bombay Talkies	Vicky's father
	Bajatey Raho	Ballu
	Ankhon Dekhi	Tourist photographer	Uncredited cameo
2014	Happy Ending	Montu
2015	Gour Hari Dastaan	Rajiv Singhal
	Titli	Vikram
2016	Moh Maya Money	Aman
2017	Blue Mountains	Om Mehra
	A Death In The Gunj	Vikram
	Gali Guliyan	Ganeshi
	Kadvi Hawa	Banker
2018	Halkaa	Ramesh
	Manto	Ishar Singh
2019	Sonchiriya	Vakeel Singh
	Tennis Buddies[21]	Mr. Singh
	Shame	Sumer Seth	Short[22]
2020	Angrezi Medium	Balashankar Tripathi / Bablu
	Kadakh	Sunil
	Lootcase	Inspector Kolte
2021	420 IPC	Savak Jamshedji
	Murder at Teesri Manzil 302	Abhishek Deewan
2022	RK/RKay	KN Singh / Ranvir
2023	Mumbaikar	PKP (Prabal Kant Patil)
	Tiger 3	Gopi Arya
	Everybody Loves Sohrab Handa[23]	Madhvan
2024	Accident or Conspiracy: Godhra	Mahmood Qureshi
	The Signature		Hindi film[24]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998	Oye	Host	English language show[25]
	House Arrest
1999	Saba
2000	Chat Room
2004–2007	The Great Indian Comedy Show	Various Characters
2007	Ranvir Vinay Aur Kaun?	Host
2012	Savdhaan India
2014	Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5	Contestant	Reality show
	Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 7	Host
2018	Rangbaaz	Siddharth Pandey
2019	Sacred Games	Shahid Khan
2019–2021	Metro Park	Kalpesh Patel
2019	Bombers	Debu
	The Office	Prem Chopra
	Flip[26]		Eros Now series; in the episode "Bully"
2020	High	Jackson Lakda
	Hasmukh	Jimmy the Maker
	PariWar	Shishupal Narayan
	A Suitable Boy	Waris
	Metro Park: Quarantine Edition[27]	Kalpesh Patel
2021-2024	Sunflower	Inspector S. Digendra	ZEE5 series
2021	Tabbar	Ajeet Sodhi
	Chalo Koi Baat Nahi	Host
2024	Bigg Boss OTT 3	Contestant	Reality show
	Shekhar Home[28]	Jayavrat Sahni

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2016	IBNLive Movie Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Titli	Nominated	[29]
2019	FOI Online Awards		Sonchiriya	Won	[30]
	IReel Awards	Best Actor (Comedy)	Metro Park	Nominated	[31]
	Gold Awards	Best Performance by an Actor in a Comic Role	Metro Park	Won	[32]
2020	Filmfare Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Sonchiriya	Nominated	[3]
2021	Asian Television Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Sunflower	Nominated	[33]

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External links

• Ranvir Shorey at IMDb 
• Ranvir Shorey at AllMovie
• Ranvir Shorey at Bollywood Hungama