Purab Kohli is an Indian actor, model and former video jockey. He has won the Filmfare Special Jury Award for Rock On!!
Career
Television Kohli started his career as an actor with the 1998 television show Hip Hip Hurray on Zee TV and earned recognition through video jockeying on Channel V. He then hosted the travel show Gone India where he toured India on budget trips.
In 2005, he appeared in an episode of the TV fantasy sitcom Shararat, as the genius science student Dhumketu.
In 2010 he anchored the Zee TV music talent hunt Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar. In 2011, he was lead in the first season of Life Mein Ek Baar a television show on Fox Traveller. In 2013, he hosted the show Terra Quiz on National Geographic Channel.
He has also featured in television ads for Colgate, Pizza Hut, Compaq Presario, Amaron Batteries and Castrol.
In 2014, he became one of the contestants in season 7 of the reality TV show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa.
Kohli had a key supporting role in Sense8 a series on Netflix by The Wachowskis with the finale premiering in June 2018.
Films Kohli made his acting debut in films with Bas Yun Hi (2003) starring opposite Nandita Das. He has also acted in other films like Supari (2003), Vastu Shastra (2004), and 13th Floor (2005). His performance in My Brother... Nikhil (2005) got him recognition. Kohli then went on to star in Mahesh Bhatt's 2006 film Woh Lamhe and as a villain again in Bhatt's 2007 film Awarapan. He also acted in Rock On!! (2008) along with Farhan Akhtar, Luke Kenny and Arjun Rampal. Kohli's work in Rock On garnered him a Special Jury Mention at the 2009 Filmfare Awards in March 2009. Kohli then starred opposite Nandita Das again in the 2010–11 film I Am which was directed by Onir, who had previously directed him in My Brother Nikhil. He also contributed financially in the making of this film. Purab played the role of a divorced lawyer in the 2012 movie Kuch Spice To Make It Meetha with actress Nauheed Cyrusi and composer Kavish Mishra. Purab's 2014 movie Jal is a story based on villagers' fight for water and dignity.
Web series Purab Kohli appeared as Angad Shergil in the Voot web series It's Not That Simple (2018), with other featured cast Swara Bhaskar, Sumeet Vyas, Vivan Bhatena, Manasi Rachh, Neha Chauhan, Karan Veer Mehra, Devika Vatsa, Rohan Shah, Jia Vaidya.
In 2019, Kohli was cast in Sujoy Ghosh directed webseries Typewriter, which streamed on Netflix in July.
In the same year, Kohil appeared in the Hotstar web series of 2019 Out of Love, playing Akarsh in a five-episode series of betrayal, heartbreak, blackmail and revenge. The series also starred Rasika Dugal and Soni Razdan.
Personal life Kohli's father Harsh Kohli is a hotelier and film producer who had produced the Vinod Khanna and Rekha starrer Aap Ki Khatir. Purab's mother, Indu Kohli is a corporate trainer. He did his schooling at St. Stanislaus High School in Bandra, Mumbai, and at The Bishop's School, Pune, Maharashtra. He switched his education faculty from Science to Commerce and finally to Arts and studied Economics, Psychology and Literature. He joined a flying school to be a pilot, but did not continue.
Kohli married his long time girlfriend, a British yoga teacher named Lucy Paton in 2016. They now live in London with their daughter, Inaya and son, Osian.
Former actor Bhisham Kohli a.k.a. Vishal Anand is his paternal uncle. Kohli's paternal grandmother was Dev Anand's sister (thus making Kohli the late actor's grand-nephew). Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur (son of another of Dev Anand's sisters) is thus, Kohli's uncle.Celeb Speak: Actor Purab Kohli On Career, His Love For Dance And Upcoming Projects
Filmography +Key Denotes films that have not yet been released Year Title Role Notes 2003 Bas Yun Hi Aditya Supari Chicken 2004 Vaastu Shastra Murli 2005 13th Floor Rajat My Brother…Nikhil Nigel De Costa 2006 Bas Ek Pal Woh Lamhe Sam a.k.a. Sammy 2007 Awarapan Munna R. Malik 2008 Rock On!! Kedar 'KD' 'Killer Drummer' Zaveri Filmfare Special Jury Award (certificate) 2009 Yeh Mera India Nachiket Joshi 2010 Hide & Seek Om Jaiswal 2011 Turning 30 Jai Saxena I Am Suraj 2011 Life Mein Ek Baar Self Fox Traveller 2012 Fatso! Navin 10ml LOVE Kuch Spice To Make It Meetha Akshay Rana Short film 2013 Gangoobai Waman 2014 Shaadi Ke Side Effects Shekhar Jal Bakka 2015–2018 Sense8 Rajan Rasal Netflix series 2016 Airlift Ibrahim Durrani Rock On 2 Kedar Zaveri (KD-Killer Drummer) P.O.W.- Bandi Yuddh Ke Naib Subedar Sartaj Singh 2017 Noor Ayan Banerjee 2018 It's Not That Simple Angad Shergil Aired on Voot 2019 Typewriter Inspector Ravi Anand Web series on Netflix 2019–2021 Out of Love Akarsh Web series on Hotstar 2019 Mission Mangal Vivek Pillai 2020 London Confidential Arjun film on ZEE52021 Bob Biswas Bubai Special appearancefilm on ZEE5The Matrix ResurrectionsZenEnglish film2022London Files Amar Roy Web Series on VootCriminal Justice: Adhura Sach Neeraj Web series on Disney+Hotstar2023BlindThe Driver / Serial Killer202436 Days Rishi aka Dr. Rishikesh Jaykar Web Series on Sony Liv2025The Great Shamsuddin Family Amitav JioHotstar film
References
External links
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