Madhur Mittal

Madhur Mittal began a new phase of his career in 2008 by playing the role of Salim Malik in the film Slumdog Millionaire. The film received huge appreciation and fetched him the Screen Actors Guild Awards for outstanding performance. He got a break in King Khan's (Shah Rukh Khan) project ’One Two Ka Four’ and Salman Khan's ‘Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaye’. Madhur was born in Taj Mahal city (Agra) on January 20, 1987. He then participated in a dance competition for a TV show ‘ Boogie Woogie’ and had won. He was just a kid of 7 years to participate and win the completion.

Breezy fans have always been in awe of this young star's dancing ability, especially when watching him glide across an entire stage so seamlessly. His moves were then often compared to pop dancer Michael Jackson. His costumes and body language was similar to like Michael Jackson in Boogie Woogie show. This stage performance helped him to join shows of Kalayanji Anandji in abroad and since then he had performed in over 1000 stage shows. He even went to California and but came back later to India. His parents liked his stage abilities and wanted to support his growth as an actor. He had liked to act in movies always and, therefore, enrolled himself for a course on theatre management (correspondence) in Mumbai. Due to his dance skills, he got an opportunity to take up assisting choreography for noted choreographers like Ganesh Hegde (Company), Ganesh Acharya (ABCD) and Ahmed Khan (Taal).

He was seen even in a small show in DD network. The first role he bagged was in Shahrukh Khan film’ One Two Ka Four’ but his another film ‘Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaye’ released first. In 2007, he acted in ‘Say Salaam India'. After ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, he was cast as Dinesh Patel in Million Dollar Arm, an American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie. It was a biopic film based on true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. The film released in 2014 with critical acclaim. The film collected a gross of a total gross of $38.3 million, against a budget of $25 million in the box-office. He also appeared in American TV show ‘Kidnap and Ransom series 2’, playing the role of a kidnapper.