Arjun Mathur

Arjun Mathur is a British-born Indian actor raised in New Delhi and Mumbai. He studied theater and took part in stage work from his school years. Instead of college, he learned acting from Barry John in New Delhi and later attended The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in New York. Mira Nair and Farhan Akhtar both cast him in short films for the Aids Jaago project, shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007. He appeared in mainstream films like Luck By Chance, My Name Is Khan (2010) and Ankur Arora Murder Case, and in independent features including National-Award winning I Am and Fireflies, and he received a Best Actor nomination from the New York Indian Film Festival in 2013. He earned praise in 2012 for the mini-series Bring On The Night. His later work included Angry Indian Goddesses (2015) and the British drama series Indian Summers.