17 Facts About Nitin Sahrawat

Nitin Sahrawat, is an Indian actor, a social activist, and the Editor in Chief of Atal Indians Magazine.

Nitin Sahrawat was born in a family of academicians, with his mother being a professor and his father an attorney, and did his schooling from Brightlands School and St Joseph's Academy, Dehradun.

Nitin Sahrawat opted out of the degree after first year, citing disillusionment with the Indian education system as the primary reason; and left for Mumbai to pursue a career in modeling and acting.

Nitin Sahrawat started his modelling career in 2002 with a print campaign for Standard Chartered and in the following years he went on to become one of the most visible faces on Indian television, with TV commercials for brands including Tide, Pillsbury Company, Maruti 800, Hyundai Santro, LG Electronics, Hero MotoCorp, Ariel, Tropicana Products and Sunsilk.

Nitin Sahrawat was the face of many such launches in India, including his commercial for Pedigree Petfoods, Nokia N72 and Tetley.

Nitin Sahrawat acted in this campaign which was named "Jeet Lo Dil".

In 2010 Cannes Lions winner director duo Nic Osborne and Sune Maroni directed a Fiat Punto TV commercial starring Nitin Sahrawat which went on to win numerous awards including Creative ABBY 2011 and Adfest 2011.

In 2010, Nitin Sahrawat acted in Rann, which was directed by Ram Gopal Varma and co starred Amitabh Bachchan.

Nitin Sahrawat enacted the character of Rajveer Singh Ahluwalia, a stoic police officer which was quite different from the amiable characters that he had usually portrayed in his TV commercials.

In February 2014 Nitin Sahrawat started shooting for Star Plus's new show Ishq Kills which is directed by Vikram Bhatt.

In 2015 Nitin Sahrawat was signed up for two shows of 4 Lions Films, namely Qubool Hai and Adhuri Kahaani Hamari.

Nitin Sahrawat was married to Indian television actress Vaishnavi Dhanraj.

Nitin Sahrawat has conceived and implemented the Atal Indian Project, which aims at creating multiple nature reserves or urban forests called Atal Vatikas, in Indian cities.

Nitin Sahrawat is a patron of the Patriot Dogs campaign, which rehabilitates service dogs from the Indian Army, police and paramilitary forces, post their retirement from the call of duty.

In 2016, Nitin Sahrawat started a pilot project to create an urban forest, and Avenue tree plantation in Dehradun, when he personally dug out fifty pits, and planted Gulmohar and Saraca asoca trees, protecting them with tree guards which had been granted by the city council.

In two years time, this pilot project proved to be successful enough for Nitin Sahrawat to decide on replicating this project in other Indian cities.

Nitin Sahrawat has collaborated with the administration of the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and has pledged his support for the Rispana Rejuvenation project of the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat.