1. Rahul Bhat is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films.
18 Facts About Rahul Bhat
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Rahul Bhat began his career as a fashion model and participated in the Graviera Mr India contest in 1998, and subsequently worked in several advertisements and music videos.
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Rahul Bhat gained fame for his leading role in the television serial Heena from 1998 to 2003.
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Rahul Bhat has since appeared in Fitoor, Daas Dev, Section 375, and Kashyap's Dobaaraa, and Kennedy.
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Rahul Bhat was born in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India into a Kashmiri Pandit family.
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Rahul Bhat did advertisements for Pond's and Breeze detergent, and appeared in music videos like "Soni Lag Gayee" with Pakistani singer Sajjad Ali, and "Punjabi Munda" for Tips Industries.
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Rahul Bhat gained popularity for his role opposite Simone Singh in Heena, a top-rated soap opera on Sony Entertainment Television, which aired for five years from 1998 to 2003.
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Rahul Bhat had his first film role in the romantic drama Yeh Mohabbat Hai in 2002, directed by Umesh Mehra.
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Disillusioned with the kind of roles he was being offered, Rahul Bhat took a sabbatical from acting.
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Rahul Bhat instead began his own production company Filmtonic Entertainment, under which he produced television soap operas such as Meri Doli Tere Angana, Chhukar Mere Man Ko, and Tum Dena Saath Mera.
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Three years later in 2016, Rahul Bhat played a role opposite Katrina Kaif in the romantic drama Fitoor and alongside Priyanka Chopra in the crime film Jai Gangaajal.
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Vetticad wrote that Rahul Bhat had brought an "X factor to his performance" which exceeded the screenplay's limitations.
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Rahul Bhat starred in Sudhir Mishra's romantic drama Daas Dev, a retelling of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's novel Devdas set in the political landscape of Uttar Pradesh, in which he played the lead role opposite Aditi Rao Hydari and Richa Chaddha.
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In 2021, Rahul Bhat starred in Man Naked, an experimental single-shot short film.
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Rahul Bhat reunited with Anurag Kashyap in 2022, in Dobaaraa, a remake of the Spanish mystery film Mirage, starring Taapsee Pannu.
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Anupama Chopra found Rahul Bhat's to be the "most notable character" in the film and added that his "frayed good looks and exhausted manner infuse a much-needed comic edge into the film".
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Rahul Bhat collaborated with Kashyap in the crime film Kennedy, which premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival.
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Rahul Bhat starred in Netflix thriller series Black Warrant in 2025, playing DSP Rajesh Tomar, a senior jailer at Tihar jail.