15 Facts About Viraf Patel

Viraf Patel was a sailor in the merchant navy between 1999 and 2004 and was titled as The Grasim Mr India 2005.

Viraf Patel is best known for his role in the Yashraj Teleseries, Mahi Way as Shiv, Adityaraj Merchant in another Yashraj production-Kismat, as Shreshth in Teri Meri Love Stories opposite Shilpa Anand and most recently as Mrityunjay in BBC's production for Life OK "Ek Boond Ishq".

Viraf Patel made his debut in Theatre with Vikram Kapadia's "Bombay Talkies" in 2012.

Viraf Patel was born and brought up in a Parsi Zoroastrian family in Pune, Maharashtra, India.

Viraf Patel got engaged to Saloni Khanna on 20 February 2021 and tied the knot on 6 May 2021.

Viraf Patel completed 5 years of sailing in the merchant navy, then won the personality pageant 'Grasim Mr India 2005' and has been in front of the camera since.

Viraf Patel has been the face of the country's then largest garment retail brand Pantaloon between 2005 ~09.

Viraf Patel started his acting career in one of India's most successful television mini series, Mahi Way produced by Yashraj in 2010.

Viraf Patel followed it up with another show with the Yashraj banner, called Kismat, as the lead character of, Aditya Raj Merchant in 2011.

Viraf Patel portrayed the role of a business man 'Shreshth' in the BBC telefilm 'Tere Meri Love Stories' opposite Shilpa Anand.

Viraf Patel played the role of Mrityunjay Singh Shekhawat in the life ok drama Ek Boondh Ishq, a BBC worldwide production and his first daily soap.

In 2015 Viraf Patel started work on Mahesh Bhatt's Naamkarann, for the leading Hindi entertainment TV channel Star Plus, which eventually went on air went on air in Sept 2016.

Viraf Patel was seen playing a hot boss in the MTV series called BigF in April 2017.

Viraf Patel is working on few scripts and is learning screenwriting from Boman Irani at Spiral Bound.

Viraf Patel made his debut on the digital space with 13 Mussoorie on Viu.