Arunoday Singh is an India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n film actor. Arunodoy Singh debut movie was Sikandar

Sikandar (2009 film)

.Sikandar is a Hindi film. The film, which features Parzan Dastur in the lead role with R. Madhavan, Sanjay Suri, Ayesha Kapoor in pivotal roles amongst others is written and directed by Piyush Jha and produced by Sudhir Mishra. The film has terrorism in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir as its...

(2009). He played the character of some Kashmiri Zahgeer Quadir in the movie Sikander. Arunoday Singh was last seen in Sudhir Mishra

Sudhir Mishra

Sudhir Mishra is an Indian film director and screenwriter most renowned for directing critically acclaimed films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Dharavi and Chameli.-Early life and education:...

's Yeh Saali Zindagi

Yeh Saali Zindagi

Yeh Saali Zindagi is a 2011 Hindi romantic drama film directed by Sudhir Mishra and starring Irrfan Khan, Arunoday Singh, Chitrangda Singh and Aditi Rao Hydari. The film was released on February 4, 2011.-Plot:...

(2011).

Personal life

Arunoday was born in Rajput

Rajput

A Rajput is a member of one of the patrilineal clans of western, central, northern India and in some parts of Pakistan. Rajputs are descendants of one of the major ruling warrior classes in the Indian subcontinent, particularly North India...

 family of Madhya Pradesh.He is the grandson of late Indian politician Arjun Singh

Arjun Singh

Arjun Singh was an Indian politician from the Indian National Congress party. He was the Union Minister of Human Resource Development in the Manmohan Singh cabinet from 2004 to 2009....

 ex Chief minister and union minister, his father Ajay Singh "Rahul" is a senior Congress leader from Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

 state.

Early life and education

He is an alumnus of Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

.
He did his schooling at a boarding school at Kodaikanal

Kodaikanal

-Climate:Kodaikanal has a monsoon-influenced subtropical highland climate . The temperatures are cool throughout the year due to the high elevation of the city.-Economy:...

, where he performed in school plays. According to him, it was after watching actor Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando, Jr. was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St...

 in On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront is a 1954 American drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Lee J. Cobb and Karl Malden. The soundtrack score was composed by Leonard...

(1954) that he decided to become an actor. After his graduation he did a few courses in the New York Film Academy

New York Film Academy

New York Film Academy - School of Film and Acting is a film school andacting school based in New York City, Universal City, California, USA and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. NYFA offers short-term film-making and acting courses, as well as one- and two-year conservatory and Master of Fine Arts...

, and thereafter enrolled in the Acting Studio in New York, during the period he also performed in plays.

Career

After finishing his studies he started giving auditions, and finally made his debut with Sikandar

Sikandar (2009 film)

.Sikandar is a Hindi film. The film, which features Parzan Dastur in the lead role with R. Madhavan, Sanjay Suri, Ayesha Kapoor in pivotal roles amongst others is written and directed by Piyush Jha and produced by Sudhir Mishra. The film has terrorism in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir as its...

(2009), directed by Piyush Jha

Piyush Jha

Piyush Jha is a film director and screenwriter of Indian origin, most known for his acclaimed films Sikandar , King of Bollywood and Chalo America.-Early life:...

, playing a Kashmiri terrorist.His second film was Anil Kapoor

Anil Kapoor

Anil Kapoor is an Indian actor and producer who mainly appears in Bollywood films. He won a Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Yash Chopra's film Mashaal ....

's home production Aisha

Aisha (film)

- Tracklist :...

(2010), an adaptation of the novel, Emma

Emma

Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively 'comedy of manners' among...

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature, her realism and biting social commentary cementing her historical importance among scholars and critics.Austen lived...

, with Sonam Kapoor

Sonam Kapoor

Sonam Kapoor is an Indian film actress who appears in Bollywood films. Kapoor made her acting debut in the unsuccessful film Saawariya opposite newcomer Ranbir Kapoor, which earned her a nomination for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She earned her first commercial success in I Hate Luv...

. Also in the same year, he appeared in 'Vinay Shukla

Vinay Shukla

Vinay Shukla is an Indian film writer and director, who is maker of Hindi film Godmother, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi in 1999.-Profile:...

's take on Gender and sexuality in Mirch through a collage of five stories, with Raima Sen

Raima Sen

-Early life:She is the daughter of Moon Moon Sen and the granddaughter of legendary actress Suchitra Sen. Her sister, Riya Sen, is also in the Bollywood industry. Their father Bharat Dev Varma is a member of the royal family of Tripura. Her paternal grandmother, Ila Devi, was the princess of Cooch...

 and Konkana Sen Sharma, where he played the central character of a struggling film director.

In 2011, he acted along side Irrfan Khan and Aditi Rao Hydari

Aditi Rao Hydari

Aditi Rao Hydari is an Indian film actress. A classical bharatanatyam dancer, she made her acting debut with Sharada Ramanathan's acclaimed film Sringaram and rose to fame after her performance in Sudhir Mishra's 2011 film Yeh Saali Zindagi....

, another newcomer in Sudhir Mishra

Sudhir Mishra

Sudhir Mishra is an Indian film director and screenwriter most renowned for directing critically acclaimed films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Dharavi and Chameli.-Early life and education:...

's Yeh Saali Zindagi

Yeh Saali Zindagi

Yeh Saali Zindagi is a 2011 Hindi romantic drama film directed by Sudhir Mishra and starring Irrfan Khan, Arunoday Singh, Chitrangda Singh and Aditi Rao Hydari. The film was released on February 4, 2011.-Plot:...

(2011).

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2009	Sikandar Sikandar (2009 film) .Sikandar is a Hindi film. The film, which features Parzan Dastur in the lead role with R. Madhavan, Sanjay Suri, Ayesha Kapoor in pivotal roles amongst others is written and directed by Piyush Jha and produced by Sudhir Mishra. The film has terrorism in the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir as its...	Zahageer Qadir
2010	Aisha Aisha (film) - Tracklist :...	Dhruv Singh
2010	Mirch	Maanav
2011	Yeh Saali Zindagi Yeh Saali Zindagi Yeh Saali Zindagi is a 2011 Hindi romantic drama film directed by Sudhir Mishra and starring Irrfan Khan, Arunoday Singh, Chitrangda Singh and Aditi Rao Hydari. The film was released on February 4, 2011.-Plot:...	Kuldeep
2012