1. Nitish Bharadwaj was born on 2 June 1963 and is an Indian television and film actor, director, screenwriter, film and TV programme producer, veterinarian graduate from Mumbai Veterinary college and former Member of Parliament in Lok Sabha.
22 Facts About Nitish Bharadwaj
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Nitish Bharadwaj now focuses on his film career entirely through screenwriting, directing and dancing.
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Nitish Bharadwaj started his arts career with his training in Marathi theatre as a director, under stalwarts such as Sudha Karmarkar, Dr Kashinath Ghanekar and Prabhakar Panshikar.
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Nitish Bharadwaj then moved on to professional Marathi theatre with Sai Paranjapye and later shifted to Hindi theatre on sound advice from his friend Ravi Baswani.
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Nitish Bharadwaj worked with a thespian of Hindi theatre named Dinesh Thakur and performed in many of his plays till 1987.
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Nitish Bharadwaj later did a Hindi mythological play Chakravyuh, in which he reappears as Lord Krishna, the role he mastered in the old Mahabharat.
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Nitish Bharadwaj performed in a musical theatre production titled Moti Roti Patli Chunni, with a renowned theatre in London named "Theatre Royal Stratford East".
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Nitish Bharadwaj was nominated for the "Sony Radio award" for Ramayan in the UK in 1995.
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Nitish Bharadwaj played the role at the age of 23 and became an overnight star.
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Nitish Bharadwaj did a cameo in the show Buniyaad's episode 51.
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Nitish Bharadwaj directed a philosophical TV series titled Gita Rahasya, Apraadhi for Star TV and a few documentary films.
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Nitish Bharadwaj judged a Marathi dance reality show on ETV Marathi; Jallosh Survanayugacha, with Sudha Chandran and Ramesh Deo.
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Nitish Bharadwaj made his film direction debut in 2013 with a Marathi film starring Tanuja, Suhas Joshi and Sachin Khedekar titled Pitruroon.
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Nitish Bharadwaj has played important roles in movies including Mohenjo Daro and Kedarnath.
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Nitish Bharadwaj contested the parliamentary elections from Jamshedpur in Jharkhand and Rajgarh as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate and was elected to Lok Sabha as a Member of Parliament from Jamshedpur in 1996 election, by defeating veteran Inder Singh Namdhari.
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Nitish Bharadwaj lost to Laxman Singh from Rajgarh constituency in the 1999 Lok Sabha election.
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Nitish Bharadwaj worked in BJP's organisational unit of Madhya Pradesh and was its Spokesperson for a while, till he voluntarily retired from active politics to focus on his film career as a screenwriter and film director.
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Nitish Bharadwaj was born on 2 June 1963 to Janardan C Upadhye, a Senior Advocate of Bombay High Court and a veteran labour lawyer.
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Nitish Bharadwaj was a close aide of George Fernandes in the labour movement in the 60s and 70s.
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Nitish Bharadwaj was an exponent of the Bhagvad Geeta and Dnyaneshwari, the knowledge of which she imparted to Bharadwaj from childhood.
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In 1991, Nitish Bharadwaj married Monisha Patil, daughter of Vimla Patil, then editor of Femina.
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Nitish Bharadwaj married Smita Gate, an IAS officer from Madhya Pradesh cadre, in 2009 and they have twin daughters.