Ravish Desai (born 22 November 1986) is an Indian

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), l ...

and

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who works in

Bollywood Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...

movies, Hindi-language

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and web series. He is mostly known for his work in TV commercials.

Early & Personal life

Ravish Desai was born on 22 November 1986 in

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the secon ...

into a

Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub- ...

family to parents Mukesh and Alpa Desai. Desai received his schooling from G.D. Somani Memorial School,

Cuffe Parade Cuffe Parade is a historic and significant business district of the city of Mumbai, India. It is home to a collection of commercial and office high-rises. It is bordered to the north by Nariman Point which, along with Cuffe Parade, forms the gre ...

. He completed his graduation from

Jai Hind College Jai Hind College (Marathi: जय हिंद कॉलेज) is an autonomous college in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, affiliated to the University of Mumbai. It was established in 1948. In 2000, ''India Today'' named Jai Hind College as one ...

. After finishing his

MBA A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accoun ...

, Ravish worked as a consultant with

JP Morgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American Multinational corporation, multinational Investment banking, investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in City of New York, New York City and Delaware General Corporation Law, inco ...

Ernst and Young Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and Pricewater ...

. He then quit his job to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. He was always fascinated by cinema during his childhood. He is also trained in Karate with a Brown Belt ownership. He met actress

Mugdha Chaphekar Mugdha Chaphekar is an Indian television and film actress who predominantly works in Hindi-language television shows along with some Marathi-language TV shows and films. Chaphekar made her television debut as an adult artist with ''Kya Mujhse D ...

on the sets of the show

Satrangi Sasural ''Satrangi Sasural'' (international title: 7 Bridges to Cross) is a Hindi Indian soap opera, which was broadcast on Zee TV channel from December 2014 to March 2016. The show is an adaption of the Zee Marathi series ''Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi'' ...

where they played leads in 2014. They fell in love and got engaged on 30 January 2016 and married on 14 December the same year in Mumbai.

Filmography

Television

Web Series

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Desai, Ravish Living people Gujarati people Male actors from Mumbai Indian male models Jai Hind College alumni 1986 births