Harsh Chhaya Height, Age, Girlfriend, Wife, Family, Biography

Bio/Wiki
Profession(s)	Actor, Writer, Film Director
Physical Stats
Height (approx.)	5' 8" (173 cm)
Eye Colour	Light Brown
Hair Colour	Black
Career
Debut	Film: Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!! (2000) as Ali TV: Khali Haath (1991) as Vishwas; aired on DD National
Award	2004: Indian Television Academy Award- Best Actor Drama for Hindi TV serial Astitva Ek Prem Kahani
Personal Life
Date of Birth	2 December 1966 (Friday)
Age (as of 2024)	58 Years
Birthplace	Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India
Zodiac sign	Sagittarius
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Bhavnagar, Gujarat
School	Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi
College/University	A.J.K. Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Educational Qualification	A Degree in Mass Communication
Religion	Hinduism
Hobbies	Writing, Travelling, Reading Books, Planting
Social Media	Facebook
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	• Shefali Shah (actress) • Sunita Sengupta (actress)
Marriage Date	• First Marriage: Year, 1997 • Second Marriage: Year, 2003
Family
Wife/Spouse	• First Wife: Shefali Shah (divorced in 2001) • Second Wife: Sunita Sengupta
Favourites
Dessert	Kheer Kadam
Film(s)	Chupke Chupke (1975), Khoobsurat (1980), Khatta Meetha (1978), Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Harsh Chhaya

• Harsh Chhaya grew up in Gujarat.

• While he was in class 6, he performed in one of the school plays in which he delivered a 40-second dialogue. Since then, he started developing an interest in acting.

• After completing his class 10, he joined a painting class.

• He then joined a theatre group and performed in various theatre plays. A few months later, he started working as an assistant producer with one of his friends from the theatre group.

• A year later, he applied at Jamia University, but, he was rejected. A year later, he reapplied to the college.

• In his 20s, his mother asked him to join a typing class. One of his relatives advised him to start a desktop business. At that time, he used to think that he would buy a Xerox machine and set up his business.

• To make his career in acting, he shifted from Delhi to Mumbai with around Rs 9000.

• He has been featured in various TV commercials.

• Harsh has acted in a few English TV movies such as In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989) and Code Name: Geronimo (2012).
  

  Code Name- Geronimo

• He has acted in many Hindi TV serials including Tehkikaat (1994), Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii (2004), Ghar Ek Sapna (2007), Balikha Vadhu (2014), and 24 Season 2 (2016).
  

  Harsh Chhaya in a still from Tehkikaat

• In the 1990s, he came into the limelight for playing the role of Krishnakant Trivedi (KT) in the Hindi TV serial Hasratein.
  

  Hasratein

• He has acted in various Hindi films like Company (2002), Laaga Chunari Mein Daag (2007), Fashion (2008), Jolly LLB (2013), and Kill (2024).
  

  Harsh Chhaya in a still from Fashion

• He has acted in a few Marathi films like Aevdhese Aabhal (2007) and A Rainy Day (2014).
  

  A Rainy Day

• In 2009, he participated in the Hindi comedy show Comedy Circus 3.
  

  Harsh Chhaya in Comedy Circus 3

• He directed the 2010 English short film A Puzzle.

• He has acted in films of a few other languages. Some of such films are Nobel Chor (2011; Bengali), Har Har Byomkesh (2015; Bengali), Shubh Aarambh (2017; Gujarati), and Byomkesh Gotro (2018; Bengali).
  

  Byomkesh Gotro

• In 2017, he was the narrator of the English TV series Those Who Made It.

• He worked as a writer-director in the 2018 Hindi film Khajoor Pe Atke.
  

  Khajoor Pe Atke

• He has penned down the lyrics of the songs of the Hindi film Khajoor Pe Atke (2018). He also lent his voice to the song “Dhokha” from the film.

• Some of his Hindi web series are Rangbaaz (2019), Forbidden Love (2020), Mukhbir – The Story of a Spy (2022), P I Meena (2023), and Gyaarah Gyaarah (2024).
  

  Rangbaaz

• In an interview, he shared that for the Hindi web series Gyaarah Gyaarah, he got Botox injections to look younger as his character in the series was a younger man.
  

  Harsh Chhaya getting Botox