Taaruk Raina
Taaruk Raina is an Indian actor, singer, songwriter and composer. He is known for portraying Anmol Malhotra in Mismatched. Early life
Raina has been singing since he was six years old. He grew up listening to a lot of rock music, rap, heavy metal, and ghazals. He used to sing in his school choir as well. He did not have technical knowledge about music, so he started learning it via YouTube. After some years, he started doing gigs at bars and weddings. Career
In 2015, Raina started working as Aditya Chopra's assistant at Yash Raj Films for Befikre. He then did theatre plays, as the lead character in 2018 with an Indian adaptation of Disney’s Aladdin, where he had to act in front of a live audience as well as sing the iconic numbers. In 2018, he made his film debut with High Jack as Parth. Next year in 2019, he was seen in ZEE5's Dhumrapaan and Kaand. In February 2020, he starred in MX Player's relationship-drama Pawan & Pooja as Pawan opposite Natasha Bharadwaj. In June 2020, he also featured in the short film Purple. Since November 2020, he is seen as Anmol Malhotra in the Netflix teenage romantic drama Mismatched, where he acted as well as made two songs for the show. He was next seen in Sony Music India's song "Sukoon" featuring himself opposite Aisha Ahmed. In 2021, he appeared in a Netflix mini-series Aryan & Meera as Aryan opposite Zayn Marie Khan. In 2022, he was seen in two web shows, ZEE5's The Broken News and Amazon Prime Video's Jugaadistan. In the same year, he also played Rishi Kapoor's son Vinayak Sharma in Sharmaji Namkeen. In January 2023, he released his first independent single "Narazi". In May 2023, Raina was a part of Audible's podcast series called Desi Down Under, along with Adarsh Gourav and Prajakta Koli, directed by Mantra, where the story is set in Sydney about three 20 year olds from Mangalore who go to Australia to learn surf-lifesaving skills at Coogee Beach. He will next be seen in Danish Renzu's musical drama Songs of Paradise. Filmography

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Web series

Dubbing

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Living people
Indian male actors
Indian male film actors
Male actors in Hindi cinema
21st-century Indian male actors
21st-century Indian male singers
21st-century Indian male musicians
Indian male composers
Indian male musicians
Indian male singer-songwriters
Year of birth missing (living people)