| Naveen Kasturia | |
| Birth Date: | 26 Jan 1984 |
| Birth Place: | Otukpo, Benue State, Nigeria |
| Alma Mater: | Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology University of Delhi |
| Years Active: | 2009-present |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Known For: | TVF Pitchers TVF Aspirants Breathe into the shadows |
Naveen Kasturia (born 26 January 1985) is an Indian actor known for his work in various drama series like , TVF Pitchers and Aspirants.[1] He made his acting debut with the critically acclaimed Sulemani Keeda. He is considered one of the most popular OTT actors with 3 of his web shows in the IMDb Top 250 TV shows list.
He started his career working as an assistant director on the film Jashnn and then assisted Dibakar Banerjee on Love Sex Aur Dhokha and Shanghai. He also appeared in and played leading roles in Waah Zindagi, Thinkistan, Happily Ever After and Runaway Lugai.
Naveen was born in Otukpo, a small town in Nigeria. His family moved back to India when he was a year old. He was brought up in a joint family in Delhi. He did his schooling from Birla Vidya Niketan and engineering in Manufacturing Process & Automation from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (now NSUT) in Delhi.[2]
He directed a lot of skits/plays in his school and college days. After graduation, he joined an analytics firm called Inductis in Gurgaon in 2006, where he worked for two years before moving to Mumbai in 2008. In Mumbai, he worked with JP Morgan Chase for a very brief period of time before making a final switch to films.
Naveen continued doing theatre after engineering. In 2007, Naveen and his college friends started a theatre company, Right Click Entertainment, and wrote and directed his first ticketed play Khel Khel Mein, which went houseful. He worked as an assistant director in Jashnn, produced by Vishesh Films.
Naveen got his first television commercial when he went to meet Dibakar Banerjee since he wanted to assist Dibakar Banerjee as an AD, and Banerjee asked him to work in his coke commercial. As of now, Naveen Kasturia has worked in many advertisements for various brands such as Vodafone, Mahindra, Tapzo app, Marathe Jewellers, True Value and so on. Later, he assisted Dibakar Banerjee in LSD and Shanghai, and Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović in an international film called Tigers.
In 2011, Amit Masurkar offered a movie to Kasturia, named Sulemani Keeda. Released in 2014, the movie proved to be a turning point in his career. Naveen did a few more sketches with The Viral Fever before Pitchers happened.[3]
In 2022, he also appeared in a podcast on Spotify, 'Bhaskar Bose: A Hindi Thriller Podcast' (season 3 – 'Bhaskar Bose in a Perfect World') playing the role of Bhaskar Bose from a Parallel World. The podcast was created by MNM Talkies.
| Denotes films / dramas that are not yet released |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Jashnn | Assistant director | |||
| 2010 | Love Sex Aur Dhokha | ||||
| 2012 | Shanghai | Ranjan | also assistant director | ||
| 2014 | Tigers | Assistant director | |||
| Sulemani Keeda | Dulal | [4] | |||
| 2016 | Loveshhuda | Kunal | |||
| 2018 | Hope Aur Hum | Nitin | [5] | ||
| Turtle | |||||
| 2019 | Waah Zindagi | Ashok | ZEE5 film | [6] |
| Year | Title | Role | Platform | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Chai Sutta Chronicles | Siddharth | TVF | ||
| 2015–present | TVF Pitchers | Naveen Bansal | TVF ZEE5 | [7] | |
| 2015 | Man's World | Bus passenger | YFilms | Guest appearance | |
| 2017 | Social Series | Prithvi | Viu | ||
| Darbari Lal | ALTBalaji | ||||
| 2018 | The Good Vibes | Lakshya Tripathi | YouTube | ||
| 2019 | Fuh se Fantasy | Sushil | Voot | Episode | |
| Thinkistan | Amit | MX Player | [8] | ||
| Happily Ever After | Roneet Bagchi | ||||
| Parchhayee | Jimmy | ZEE5 | |||
| 2021 | Aapkey Kamrey Mein Koi Rahta Hai | Subbu | MX Player | ||
| Pati Patni Aur Panga | Romanchak Arora | MX Player | [9] | ||
| 2021–present | TVF Aspirants | Abhilash Sharma | TVF Amazon Prime Video | [10] [11] [12] | |
| 2021 | Runaway Lugai[13] [14] [15] | Rajnikant Sinha | MX Player | ||
| 2021–present | Kota Factory | Dhruv | Netflix | [16] | |
| 2022 | Breathe: Into the Shadows 2 | Victor Bahl | Amazon Prime Video | ||
| TVF Pitchers 2 | Naveen Bansal | ZEE5 | |||
| 2023 | SK Sir Ki Class | IAS Abhilash Sharma | YouTube | Guest appearance | |
| TVF Aspirants 2 | IAS Abhilash Sharma | Amazon Prime Video | |||
| Sapne vs Everyone | Sumit sir(Music Teacher) | YouTube | |||
| 2024 | Not named | - | ZEE5 |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Skin Deep | Sanjay | ||
| 2014 | Interior Cafe Night | Young Boy | ||
| 2014 | Stunt Boy | Robin | ||
| 2015 | Chhoti Khushi | Elder son | SonyLIV film | |
| 2016 | Pure-Veg | Arjun | ||
| 2016 | Half Ticket | Ayaan | ||
| 2018 | Half Ticket 2 | Ayaan | ||
| 2018 | Maya | Raunak | ||
| 2018 | Sone Bhi Do Yaaron | Naveen | Zee5 film | |
| 2022 | Tasalli se | Rajan | ||
| 2022 | Pehli Baar Hum Mile (music video) | Naveen Khanna |