Thakur Anoop Singh (born 23 March 1989) is an Indian actor and bodybuilder who primarily appears in

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films and some Tamil and Kannada films. He played

Dhritarashtra Dhritarashtra () was a ruler of the ancient Kuru kingdom, featured as a central character in the Hindu epic ''Mahabharata''. He is also attested in the ''Yajurveda'', where he is acknowledged as the son of King Vichitravirya. According to th ...

in the 2013 TV series ''Mahabharat''. sight. In 2015 he won a

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in a

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contest in

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, Thailand.

Personal life

His ancestral roots lie in

Udaipur Udaipur (Hindi: , ) (ISO 15919: ''Udayapura'') is a city in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan, about south of the state capital Jaipur. It serves as the administrative headquarters of Udaipur district. It is the historic capital of t ...

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, and he belongs to a

Rajput Rājpūt (, from Sanskrit ''rājaputra'' meaning "son of a king"), also called Thākur (), is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating fro ...

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"Thakur Anoop Singh talks about his association with Sunil Kumar Desai"
, ''Bangalore Mirror''. Retrieved 5 May 2019. "I come from the Rajput ancestry."

Bodybuilding career

National and international titles

Television

Filmography

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Thakur Anoop 1989 births Living people Rajasthani people Indian male television actors Male actors in Hindi cinema Male actors in Tamil cinema Male actors in Telugu cinema Indian male film actors Male actors from Mumbai 21st-century Indian male actors Indian male martial artists Bollywood playback singers