Vivaan Shah is a rising star in the Bollywood film industry, where he is currently active as a young actor. He was born in Mumbai, India, on January 11th, 1990, and his hometown is Mumbai. It was in the film Saat Khoon Maaf (2011) that he made his first appearance as Arun Kumar. After that, he made a deal with the director Vishal Bhardwaj to star in three of his films. In the movie Happy New Year, which was directed by Farah Khan, he had a part in 2014.
Age
Vivaan Shah was born on 11 January 1990. He is 33 years as of 2023. His zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Education
Vivaan Shah received his education at The Doon School, which is located in Dehradun. After finishing his primary and secondary schooling, he attended two different colleges in order to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree (B.A.). These colleges were St. Stephen's College in New Delhi and Jai Hind College in Mumbai.
Family
He is the famous actor Naseeruddin Shah and veteran actor Ratna Pathak's son. Ratna Pathak gave birth to him. However, his grandmother Dina Pathak was also involved in the entertainment industry in Gujarat, where she was well-known for her work as an actress and director. Imaad Shah, Vivaan Shah's younger brother, is also a musician and an actor in addition to having the same last name.
Career
Vivaan Shah attended The Doon School, and he ultimately completed his education there in 2009. Aside from his academic pursuits, he was extremely enthusiastic about acting because he had always had the ambition to work in the theatre. At first, he was brought into the film industry by the renowned director Vishal Bhardwaj, who was his initial contact. As a direct result of this, he directed his first film, which was titled 7 Khoon Maaf, and it was very well received. The event took place when he was 21 years old at the time. He appeared as a lead in the film and played the part of Arun Kumar, which he had previously portrayed.
After that, he had a role in a different film titled Happy New Year, which was directed by the well-known filmmaker Farha Khan. In the film, Vivaan Shah portrayed the character of Rohan Singh, but other actors also contributed. After that, he had a role in the film Bombay Velvet as Tony, which he played. According to the most recent information, he will, for the second time, be appearing on screen alongside Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, who are considered to be two of the most beautiful stars in the industry. During one of his interviews, Vivaan Shah disclosed that working with Deepika Padukone was a long-held goal of his that eventually came to fruition.
Best Performances of Vivaan Shah
7 Khoon Maaf
Vishal Bhardwaj is the director, co-writer, and co-producer of the 2011 Indian Hindi-language black comedy movie 7 Khoon Maaf, which was released in other countries as Seven Sins Forgiven. The main role in the movie is played by Priyanka Chopra, and supporting roles are played by Vivaan Shah, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Irrfan Khan, Alexander Dyachenko, Annu Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, and Usha Uthup. The movie is about a woman named Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes, who is Anglo-Indian and kills six people in her never-ending search for love.
7 Khoon Maaf is based on the short story Susanna's Seven Husbands by Ruskin Bond. When Bhardwaj saw that the short story could be turned into a script, he asked Bond to develop the story for a movie. Bond turned his 4-page short story into an 80-page novella, and Bhardwaj and Matthew Robbins then worked together to write the script. Bhardwaj wrote the music for the movie, and Gulzar wrote the lyrics. The main filming started in Kashmir and then moved to Coorg, where a lot of filming took place.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year is an Indian action comedy movie that came out in 2014. It was directed by Farah Khan and made by Gauri Khan and Red Chillies Entertainment. Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone, Abhishek Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Boman Irani, Vivaan Shah, and Jackie Shroff are all in the movie. Yash Raj Films sent it all over the world. In the movie, a group of losers turns themselves into a team that wins over the hearts of people in the city and around the world. This is all part of their plan to pull off the biggest diamond heist ever seen.
Happy New Year came out on Diwali in 2014 with dubbed versions in Tamil and Telugu. It got about 4,200 screens in Hindi and 800 screens in Tamil and Telugu, making it the biggest movie to come out in India up to that point. Critics had mixed things to say about it. They liked the acting, especially from Khan and Bachchan, the soundtrack, the humor, the cinematography, the action scenes, the production design, and the visual effects, but they didn't like the writing, the length, or the pace. It made 25 crores (US$4.1 million) on its first day in India and 394 crores (US$64.56 million) in total around the world.
Bombay Velvet
Bombay Velvet is an Indian gangster movie from 2015 that was based on the book Mumbai Fables by historian Gyan Prakash. It was directed and co-produced by Anurag Kashyap. Its main characters are played by Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, and Karan Johar. Kay Kay Menon, Manish Choudhary, Vivaan Shah, and Siddhartha Basu play smaller roles. The movie came out on May 15, 2015. The movie, which cost 120 crore to make, made about 23 crore in its first week. It opened to mixed reviews, and when it bombed at the box office, it was called a commercial disaster.
The movie's story is about Balraj a street fighter and boxer in Bombay in 1969. He is in love with the jazz singer Rosie. Seeing Rosie with rich men makes him want to be a big shot even more. He thinks that if he gets rich, he might be able to win Rosie's heart. Then, Balraj and his friend Chimman catch the attention of Kaizad Khambatta, a wealthy businessman. Khambatta is impressed by Balraj and offers him the chance to run his illegal club Bombay Velvet. He also calls Balraj Johnny, which he uses as a way to identify him. Johnny and Chimman also do small jobs for Khambatta, like getting a dirty picture of a minister that Khambatta wants to use to blackmail him. This news gets to a reporter named Jimmy Mistri, who also happens to be the rich man Johnny had seen Rosie with before.
Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana
Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana is an Indian romantic comedy-drama movie that came out in 2017 and was written and directed by Manish Harishankar. It was produced by TP Aggarwal and Rahul Aggarwal, and Vishal Singh was the Executive Producer. Vivaan Shah, Akshara Haasan, Gurmeet Choudhary, and Kavitta Verma all play important roles in the movie. The movie's teaser posters came out on February 20, 2017, and the trailer came out on YouTube on February 27, 2017. The movie came out on April 7, 2017, and both critics and audiences didn't like it.
The plot of the movie revolves around Laaddoo (Vivaan Shah) a young man from the middle class who wants to be as successful as the Tatas and Birlas. After persuading his father, he moves to Vadodara and gets a job as a waiter in the cafe owned by his father's friend Kabir.
Career Timeline
Movies and TV Shows
Year
Title
Role
2023
Coat
Madho Ram
2023
Charlie Chopra
Jimmy Nautiyal
2020
Kabaad The Coin
Bandhan
2020
A Suitable Boy
Varun Mehra
2017
Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana
Laaddoo
2015
Bombay Velvet
Tony
2014
Happy New Year
Rohan
2011
7 Khoon Maaf
Arun Kumar
Net Worth
As a result of his prominent work in numerous movies and tv shows, Vivaan Shah has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Awards
At the Zee Cine Awards in 2014, Vivaan Shah's role in Happy New Year got him a nomination for the Jury's Choice Best Breakthrough Performance.
In 2012, for his role in 7 Khoon Maaf, he was also nominated for the Popular Award for Best Debut by a Male.
Interesting Facts About Vivaan Shah
Vivaan wants to become a film director one day because he is very interested in making movies.
If Vivaan didn't want to be an actor, he would have been a historian.
In modern families, it can be hard for brothers to get along with each other, but Vivaan thinks of his brother Imaad Shah as his best friend.
Even though he was 45 when he made his first movie, Vishal Bhardwaj's 7 Khoon Maaf (2011), he got the attention he needed with Shah Rukh Khan's Happy New Year (2014).
Shahid Kapoor is Vivaan's step-cousin because Shahid's stepmother, Supriya Pathak, and Vivaan's mother, Ratna Pathak, are sisters.
Since acting is in his blood, Vivaan never thought he needed to take classes.
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Vivaan Shah is a rising star in the Bollywood film industry, where he is currently active as a young actor. He was born in Mumbai, India, on January 11th, 1990, and his hometown is Mumbai. It was in the film Saat Khoon Maaf (2011) that he made his first appearance as Arun Kumar. After that, he made a deal with the director Vishal Bhardwaj to star in three of his films. In the movie Happy New Year, which was directed by Farah Khan, he had a part in 2014.
He is the famous actor Naseeruddin Shah and veteran actor Ratna Pathak's son. Ratna Pathak gave birth to him. However, his grandmother Dina Pathak was also involved in the entertainment industry in Gujarat, where she was well-known for her work as an actress and director. Imaad Shah, Vivaan Shah's younger brother, is also a musician and an actor in addition to having the same last name.
Vivaan Shah attended The Doon School, and he ultimately completed his education there in 2009. Aside from his academic pursuits, he was extremely enthusiastic about acting because he had always had the ambition to work in the theatre. At first, he was brought into the film industry by the renowned director Vishal Bhardwaj, who was his initial contact. As a direct result of this, he directed his first film, which was titled 7 Khoon Maaf, and it was very well received. The event took place when he was 21 years old at the time. He appeared as a lead in the film and played the part of Arun Kumar, which he had previously portrayed. 
Vivaan wants to become a film director one day because he is very interested in making movies.
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