Arunoday Singh is an Indian film actor. He is best known for playing supporting roles in Bollywood films like
Yeh Saali Zindagi,
Jism 2, and
Mohenjo Daro.
Early LifeArunoday Singh was born in Sidhi, Madhya Pradesh on 17 February 1983. He was raised by his Rajput family in the village of Mendora, Madhya Pradesh, a village near Bhopal, where they own a dairy farm. Arunoday's grandfather Arjun Singh was a politician, best remembered as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh at the time of the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy.
Arunoday studied at Kodaikanal Boarding School and then attended the Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA. When he was around nine years old, his English teacher screened the film On the Waterfront (1954) for her students and Arunoday was extremely inspired by
Marlon Brando's performance. He began acting in school plays and then enrolled in the New York Film Academy and the Acting Studio in New York, USA. He simultaneously acted in numerous plays in New York before returning to India to pursue a career in Bollywood.
Movie CareerIn 2009, Arunoday Singh made his debut with
Sikander, playing the role of a Kashmiri freedom fighter. He was then seen in the
Sonam Kapoor-starrer
Aisha (2010), a rom-com based on Jane Austen's 1815 novel Emma. The actor's next movie was
Vinay Shukla's
Mirch (2010), a drama film about gender equality and women's sexuality that were showcased through four stories within the film. The year 2011 was a notable one for Arunoday. He acted in
Sudhir Mishra's romantic thriller
Yeh Saali Zindagi, alongside
Irrfan Khan,
Chitrangada Singh, and
Aditi Rao Hydari, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at the Screen Awards.
He then essayed the role of an intelligence officer in the erotic thriller
Jism 2 (2012), starring Bollywood débutante
Sunny Leone. The movie went on to earn around 35 crore INR and Arunoday went on to act in the 2014 romantic action comedy
Main Tera Hero, where he plays a corrupt policeman. After portraying the role of a ghost in the supernatural thriller
Pizza (2014), Arunoday featured in two
Emraan Hashmi movies-
Ungli (2014) and
Mr. X (2015), neither of which did much to further his career. In 2016, the actor starred in the controversial autobiographical film
Buddha in a Traffic Jam, which is based on the life of Bollywood film director
Vivek Agnihotri, who also directed this film. The movie touches upon issues like moral policing, college politics, and corruption. His other 2016 release is
Ashutosh Gowariker's
Mohenjo Daro, periodic adventure romance, starring
Hrithik Roshan and
Pooja Hegde.