Arunabh Kumar is the director of the Indian web series and an IIT graduate. He is the founder and former CEO of OTT television channel The Viral Fever (TVF). All the shows he has produced have been critically acclaimed and he has also received a Filmfare Award for his OTT series, Panchayat.
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Arunabh Kumar was born on Sunday, 26 November 1982 (age 40; as of 2021) in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He was from a middle class family and spent his childhood in Muzaffarpur. His parents wanted him to get a better education and moved to different cities in this effort. They moved to seven or eight cities, after which they settled in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Studied at Vidyashram School of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in Jaipur. After that he went to Kota to study for IIT JEE. He cleared this exam and went to the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur to pursue his B.Tech in Electrical Engineering.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′6″
Weight (approx): 65 kg
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
Family and nationality
Arunabh Kumar belongs to a Hindu family.
parents and siblings
He is the son of Prenshila Kumar, a retired school principal.
Arunabh Kumar with his mother
His father is also a retired school principal and he has two brothers.
Arunabh Kumar with his father, brothers and nephew in Goa
wife and children
Arunabh met Shruti Ranjan in 2013 at IIT Bombay, where he was pursuing his Masters in Environmental Science. The duo dated each other for a long time.
Arunabh Kumar after getting engaged to his fiancee Shruti
Shruti started her career as an RTT Practitioner and now works as a Theta Healing Practitioner. After meeting Arunabh, she found her passion for photography and loves to do it in her spare time. They got engaged in April 2020, but their wedding was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. On May 24, 2022, the couple finally tied the knot in a private ceremony surrounded by close relatives and well-wishers.
Arunabh Kumar at his marriage ceremony with Shruti Ranjan
Career
After graduating from IIT, Arunabh Kumar started his career as a research assistant in the US Air Force at IIT Bombay in 2006. He did not like the job and left it. In an interview, he was asked why he left this job and he answered:
I think IIT is when I actually started getting this thing, that there is something called movies, making movies… and I started enjoying it. It would be the place where I discovered my desire and interest in it. So you could say that IIT is the time when I discovered that okay, this is an interesting field and I might want to do it. Then I also did a few internships, but I realized that it allows us to take a job. I got into the US Air Force because I got into this subject called image processing, but I left it after only six months.
After leaving his engineering job, Arunabh joined Red Chillies Entertainment as an Assistant Director in 2017. There, her job responsibilities included everything from running errands to taking notes and doing all the errands and offsets.
Arunabh Kumar with his colleague and friend from Red Chills Entertainment
He was also an assistant director on Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om starring Shah Rukh Khan. After that project, he had trouble finding a steady job that paid the bills. He tried his best to start a career in cinema, but it ended after a three-year struggle. So he started making small AV and corporate films for builders and ad agencies. This bought him a steady stream of income, but he tried his luck again in filmmaking. He thought about starting his own TV show, The Engineer’s Diary, and sent a proposal to MTV. The channel rejected the offer. Because of this rejection, he thought of entering the Internet through YouTube. He once spoke about this rejection and how he started creating his own TV shows. She said,
TVF didn’t really start with this rejection. TVF Media Labs was a company I started to produce branded content and it was set up pretty early on. It started in 2010-11. Then only when I had enough money to support myself, I thought of doing my own TV show. So it is a misconception that I started TVF because the show was rejected. I had TVF and had enough money. Actually, TVF isn’t really a YouTube network, it’s a mother ship that I started. A year and a half later, when I had enough money, that’s when we intended to do a TV show, which was rejected. And then I thought maybe I should try and do my show online. This is how the TVF online network came into existence.
In 2019, he also co-founded Indusverse with Alok Sharma and Saumin Patel and serves as its CEO. This venture is dedicated to producing comics that address contemporary issues in society.
confrontations
- In March 2017, an anonymous post titled “India’s Uber- It’s TVF” was published on Medium. This anonymous post was written by a woman who accused Arunabh of sexual harassment while he was working for TVF between 2014 and 2016. After the post, more than 50 women came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment. On March 17, 2017, an FIR was lodged against Arunabh based on a third-party complaint filed by a lawyer. On March 29, 2017, the police arrested him after a woman in Mumbai filed a molestation complaint. Another complaint followed. At that time, his association with TVF as its CEO affected the channel’s image, which was unacceptable to investors. On 16 June 2017, Kumar resigned as CEO of TVF, handing over the responsibilities to Dawal Hussain.
Awards, honors, achievements
- In 2014, he was named Newsmaker of the Year by AFAQs.
- In 2014, he was also named Man of the Year by Men’s World.
- In 2015, he was named to Fortune’s Top 40 Under 40 list.
- In 2015, he was listed among the most influential young Indians by GQ magazine.
- In 2016, he was named to the list of 10 Geniuses Redefining Creativity by Entrepreneur.
- In 2016, he was featured in The Economic Times’ 40 Under Forty list.
- In 2021, he won four Flyx Filmfare OTT Awards 2020 for the first season of Panchayat.
After winning four Filmfare awards for Arunabh Kumar Panchayat
Net worth
Arunabh Kumar net worth is $20 million. (approximately)
the chosen ones
- Food: Malaysian cuisine, Poori Chole
- Movies: Khosla ka Ghosla, Shawshank Redemption, Fight Club and It’s a Wonderful Life
- Starring: Jerry Seinfeld, Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan
Facts/Trivia
- She acted briefly in Om Shanti Om as a transgender.
Arunabh Kumar is still in a transgender role from Om Shanti Om
- His shows including Kota Factory, Yeh Meri Family and Gullak have a 9 plus rating out of 10 by IMDb.
- He and his family run an NGO known as Masterji Foundation which works in the field of education.
- In 2020, due to depression, he was diagnosed with partial blindness in his right eye.
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