12 Facts About Rajendra Gupta

An alumnus of the National School of Drama, Gupta has worked in numerous television serials and films.

Rajendra Gupta played the role of the Mukhiya of Champaner in the Oscar-nominated 2001 film Lagaan.

Rajendra Gupta played the role of Kesri Narayan in the TV serial Chidiya Ghar, that aired on Sab TV.

Rajendra Gupta is a part of Hindi haryanvi big budget film Rukke Padge with actor Gaurav Prateek.

Rajendra Gupta was born in a business family in Panipat and did his graduation from the Kurukshetra University.

Rajendra Gupta's father known as Master Ji ran a woolen textiles business but Gupta had no interest in the business; his interests lay, instead, in dramatics and theatre.

Rajendra Gupta met wife-to-be, Veena, a Christian, in Indore when he went there to take part in a college play.

In 1972, Rajendra Gupta enrolled himself at the New Delhi-based National School of Drama and completed his post-graduation in direction.

Rajendra Gupta's daughter, Ravee Rajendra Gupta, is a television actress who is married to television actor Manoj Bidwai.

Rajendra Gupta has acted in numerous plays and has directed at least twenty of his own.

Rajendra Gupta is the actor-director of plays such as Sarphire and Jaheez Hatyare, both based on writer-philosopher Albert Camus' French play The Just Assassins, and Sooraj Ki Antim Kiran Se Sooraj Ke Pehle Kiran Tak, based on Surendra Verma's 1965 Hindi play.

Rajendra Gupta has acted in many Hindi plays, but Chanakyashastra and Kanyadaan, a play by noted playwright Vijay Tendulkar, are two plays he did in English.