Sidharth Malhotra

The film became a commercial success with Worldwide revenues of over inr 1700000000.

The box office performance of the film established him as one of the most promising new actors of Hindi cinema.

Sidharth Malhotra (born 16 January 1985) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films.

He began his career as a fashion model, but left it to pursue acting.

Malhotra made his acting debut in 2006 in the TV serial Dharti Ka Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan, in which he played the role of Jaichand.

Interested in pursuing a film career, he successfully auditioned for a film to be directed by Anubhav Sinha.

He took on roles in television before assisting director Karan Johar on the 2010 film My Name Is Khan.

However, the film was shelved, and he instead worked as an assistant director to Karan Johar on the 2010 film My Name Is Khan.

He had his first lead role in Johar's teen film Student of the Year (2012).

In 2012, he made his film debut with Johar's teen drama Student of the Year alongside newcomers Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt.

He was cast as Abhimanyu Singh, a scholarship student, who competes with his wealthy best friends to win an annual school championship.

Film critic Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN considered his performance to be "earnest", adding that he had "a pleasing presence".

Student of the Year was a financial success, grossing inr 1090000000 Worldwide.

Malhotra went on to star in such commercially successful films as the romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee (2014), the thriller Ek Villain (2014), and the drama Kapoor & Sons (2016).

Following a year-long absence from the screen, Malhotra starred opposite Parineeti Chopra in the 2014 romantic comedy Hasee Toh Phasee, which tells the love story of a scientist and an under-confident aspiring businessman.

Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV praised his screen presence and compared it to the early work of Amitabh Bachchan.

The film performed moderately well at the box office, with global revenues of inr 620000000.

In the Mohit Suri-directed romantic thriller Ek Villain, he played Guru Divekar, a hardened criminal whose terminally-ill wife (played by Shraddha Kapoor) is murdered by a serial killer (played by Riteish Deshmukh).

Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express reviewed his performance as "watchable even if he has a hard time doing menace — he just seems so nice and wholesome all the time, even when he is crunching bones."

Malhotra next appeared in a 2015 remake of the 2011 American film Warrior, titled Brothers, directed by Karan Malhotra and co-starring Akshay Kumar.

The film received negative reviews and under-performed at the box office.

Malhotra's next release, the Shakun Batra-directed family drama Kapoor & Sons, proved to be a critical and commercial success, grossing ₹ 1.53 billion Worldwide.

Featuring an ensemble cast including Fawad Khan, and Alia Bhatt, the film tells the story of two brothers of contrasting personalities (Malhotra and Khan) who return home to their dysfunctional family after their grandfather suffers from a cardiac arrest.

A reviewer for India Today thought that Malhotra was overshadowed by Khan in the film, though Namrata Joshi of The Hindu wrote that "he holds his own with his solid presence and vulnerable glances".

Malhotra followed the success of Kapoor & Sons with a starring role in the romantic comedy Baar Baar Dekho alongside Katrina Kaif, playing a time-travelling mathematician.

Directed by Nitya Mehra, the film was poorly received.

From 2016 to 2018, he appeared in Forbes India Celebrity 100 list.

Following a career downturn, with critical and commercial failures such as A Gentleman (2017), Aiyaary (2018) and Jabariya Jodi (2019), he gained critical praise for starring as Vikram Batra in the war film Shershaah (2021), earning a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.

In 2024, he led the action thriller series Indian Police Force.

In addition to his acting career, he serves as the ambassador of several brands and products.

Malhotra is married to actress Kiara Advani.

Malhotra was born in Delhi, India into a Punjabi Hindu family, to Sunil Malhotra, a former captain in the Merchant Navy, and Rimma Malhotra, a homemaker.

Malhotra was educated at Don Bosco School (Alaknanda, New Delhi), and at Naval Public School, Delhi.

He then graduated from Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, Delhi.

At the age of 18, he began modelling.

Although he was successful, he decided to quit after four years because he was dissatisfied with the profession.

Later in 2017, he starred in dual roles for the first time in the action comedy A Gentleman with Jacqueline Fernandez from the writer-director duo Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K., which was produced by Fox Star Studios; although highly anticipated, it opened to a poor reception.

Both films were box-office bombs.

In a 2017 remake of the 1969 mystery film Ittefaq, Malhotra starred opposite Sonakshi Sinha.

Released in 2017, the film was positively received by critics, but failed at the box office with a lifetime collection of ₹ 500 million.