Vijay Varma

Vijay Varma is an Indian actor who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. Varma rose to prominence with his role in Pink (2016) and has since acted in critically-acclaimed roles in MCA (2017), Gully Boy (2019), Baaghi 3 (2020), Darlings (2022) and web series Mirzapur (2020-present) , She (2021) and Dahaad (2023). He has recently been receiving accolades for his role as a cop investigating a murder in the movie Jaane Jaan.

Vijay Varma
Varma in 2023
Born (1986-03-29) 29 March 1986
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Alma materFilm and Television Institute of India
OccupationActor
Years active2008–present

Early life and education

Varma was born on 29 March 1986 in a Marwari Hindu family settled in Hyderabad, Telangana.[1] He studied at the FTII.[2]

Career

Varma started his acting journey as a theatre artist in his hometown Hyderabad. He worked in numerous plays before he decided to move to Pune for two years to get a formal education in acting at FTII. After finishing his postgraduate course, he shifted his base to Mumbai in search of acting work. His first acting job was in Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK's short film titled Shor which was highly acclaimed at festivals and won the Best Short Film at the MIAAC festival, in New York that year. He also worked in the critically acclaimed movie Pink.[3]

Filmography
Key
† Denotes films that have not yet been released
  • All films are in Hindi unless otherwise noted.

Films
YearTitleRoleNotes
2008ShorRameshShort film
2012ChittagongJhunku (Subodh Roy)
2013RangrezzPakkya
2014Gang of GhostsRobin Hoodda
2016PinkAnkit Malhotra
2017Monsoon ShootoutAdi
Raag DeshJamal Kidwai
MCASivaTelugu
2018 Manto Ansaar Shabnam Dil
2019 Gully Boy Moeen
Super 30 Fugga Kumar Special appearance
2020 Ghost Stories Guddu
Baaghi 3 Akhtar Lahori
Bamfaad Jigar Fareedi
Yaara Rizwan Sheikh
2022 Hurdang Loha Singh
Darlings Hamza Shaikh
2023 Lust Stories 2 Vijay Chauhan
Jaane Jaan Karan Anand
Afghaani Snow TBA Filming
2024 Murder Mubarak† TBA Filming[4]

Web series
Year Title Role Ref.
2018 Cheers-Friends, Reunion, Goa Ciggy
2020 A Suitable Boy Rasheed [5]
She Sasya
2020–present Mirzapur Shatrughan Tyagi/Bharat Tyagi
2021 OK Computer Saajan Kund Kaalkoot SI Ravi Shankar Tripathi

Awards and nominations
List of award nominations and awards won by Vijay Varma
Year Award Category Film Result Ref.
2019 26th Screen Awards Best Supporting Actor Gully Boy Nominated
2020 65th Filmfare Awards Best Supporting Actor Nominated [6]
2023 Bollywood Hungama Style Icons Most Stylish Emerging Icon — Won [7]
Most Stylish Breakthrough Talent (Male) — Nominated

References
  1. "After Gully Boy, Vijay Varma talks about spending a decade in the background". The Indian Express. 24 February 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  2. "Vijay Varma -Actor Biography". Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
  3. "Pink is a social thriller: Amitabh Bachchan". 11 September 2016.
  4. "EXCLUSIVE: Vijay Varma lauds Murder Mubarak director Homi Adajania; says, "If I don't do that project I will be losing out on life"". Bollywood Hungama. 23 August 2023. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
  5. "BBC - Cast announced for BBC One's A Suitable Boy, the first screen adaptation of Vikram Seth's classic novel - Media Centre". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 September 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  6. "Nominations for 65th Amazon Filmfair Awards 2020". Filmfare. Archived from the original on 3 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  7. "Check out the complete list of winners of the Bollywood Hungama Style Icon Awards". Bollywood Hungama. Retrieved 14 April 2023.
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