Prashant Raj Sachdev is a model and actor from Mumbai, who debuted in Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma

Ram Gopal Varma is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer...

's remake of Ramesh Sippy's Sholay

Sholay

Sholay is a 1975 Indian action-adventure film produced by G.P. Sippy and directed by his son Ramesh Sippy. It is considered among the greatest films in the history of Indian cinema. Released on 15 August 1975, it stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Sanjeev Kumar, Jaya Bhaduri and...

: Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag.

His second film Toss was out 28 August 2009. It was also the debut vehicle for Roadies' Rannvijay Singh

Rannvijay Singh

Ranvijay Singh Singha , is a VJ and Bollywood actor. He was a participant and also the finalist in the first season of MTV Roadies and that lead to him becoming the host for the MTV show, Roadies. He also became a part of the judging panel for MTV Roadies 8 along with Raghu Ram and Rajiv Lakshman....

 and Madhhurima and also co-stars Aarti Chhabria and Ashmit Patel

Ashmit Patel

Ashmit Patel is an Indian actor who works in Bollywood films.-Early life:Ashmit Patel is the son of Amit Patel and Asha Patel, the younger brother of Amisha Patel, and the grandson of the famous lawyer-politician Barrister Rajni Patel who was the Congress Pradesh Committee President of Bombay...

In Aag, he played the role of Raj, originally played by Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s as the "angry young man" of Hindi cinema, and has since appeared in over 180 Indian films in a career spanning more than four decades...

 as Jai. The original name of the film was Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay, however, due to copyright concerns, the name had to be changed.

He was on a team, with model Sahil Shroff, on the AXN Network's The Amazing Race Asia reality/adventure TV show, in their first Asian season.

Biography

Personal:

Born 9 January 1980, Mumbai

Mumbai

Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

 (then Bombay), India

Education:

Bombay Scottish School

Bombay Scottish School

Bombay Scottish School popularly known as Scottish is a private, co-educational day school located at Mahim in Mumbai, India. The institution was established in 1847 by Scottish Christian missionaries under the name Scottish Female Orphanage....

, Mumbai

Delhi Public School

Delhi Public School

Delhi Public School may refer to the following:* Delhi Public School Society, an umbrella organization for 95 private schools in India and other countries including:** Delhi Public School, Bangalore** Delhi Public School, Bathinda...

, R.K. Puram, New Delhi

New Delhi

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 (Graduated batch of 1998)

Sri Venkateswara College

Sri Venkateswara College

Sri Venkateswara College is a constituent college of the University of Delhi in India providing liberal art, science and commerce education at the undergraduate level...

, University of Delhi

University of Delhi

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 (Graduated batch of 2001)

Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute

Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute

__notoc__The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is an acting school located at 115 East 15th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, as well as at 7936 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California...

, New York (2010)

Professional:

First ad campaign was for Benzer

Worked in Event Management with Percept D'Mark (PDM India), Showdiff

Milestones & Achievements:

2004 - First runner up in Grasim Mr. India

2005 - "Mr. Model of the Universe" 2005 in Quito, Ecuador

2007 - Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 debut, chosen to play the role of Jai in Ram Gopal Varma Ke Sholay

Appeared in several Lakme

Lakme cosmetics

Lakmé is an Indian brand of cosmetics, owned by Unilever. Lakme started as a 100% subsidiary of Tata Oil Mills , part of the Tata Group; it was named after the French opera Lakmé, which itself is the French form of Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, also renowned for her beauty...

 India Fashion Week shows in Mumbai and Delhi

Sachdev, who is 6'3", has done ramp and print campaigns in India, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

, and Ecuador

Ecuador

Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...

.

Citations

http://www.apunkachoice.com/celebrities/prashant_raj/

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/net/mmpaper.aspx?page=article§id=30&contentid=20061202030920562b88a3efb

http://www.rgvkiaag.com

http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/hindi/article/37136.html

http://calcuttatube.com/toss-prashant-raj-is-back/