Viveik Kalra

Viveik Kalra is an English actor whose breakout came with the lead in Gurinder Chadha's Blinded by the Light (2019), playing a British-Pakistani teenager inspired by Bruce Springsteen. Born in Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, he grew up in Windsor and left drama school in Cardiff during his first year, in 2016, when a role came along. His earliest screen credit was the 2018 ITV miniseries Next of Kin, and he followed it with another ITV miniseries, Chadha's historical drama Beecham House. His work as Javed Khan in Blinded by the Light brought a Best Actor nomination at the 2019 SIFF. He went on to play Peter in the science fiction movie Voyagers (2021), appear in Three Months (2022), and sign on opposite Shruti Haasan in the romantic comedy Chennai Story, directed by Philip John.