Arunabh Kumar is an Indian net sequence director and IIT alumni. He’s the founder and former CEO of The Viral Fever (TVF) which is an OTT tv channel. All his created exhibits have been positively reviewed by critics and he additionally obtained a Filmfare award for his present Panchayat.
Wiki/Biography
Arunabh Kumar was born on Sunday, 26 November 1982 (age 40 years; as of 2021) in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He was from a middle-class household and spent his childhood in Muzaffarpur. His mother and father wished him to achieve higher training and shifted to varied cities for this effort. They moved to seven eight cities after which they settled in Jaipur, Rajasthan. There he studied at Vidyashram faculty. After this, he went to Kota to review for IIT JEE. He cleared this examination and went to the Indian Institute of Expertise in Kharagpur to pursue B.Tech in Electrical Engineering.
Bodily Look
Top (approx.): 5′ 6″
Weight (approx.): 65 kg
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Black
Household & Ethnicity
Arunabh Kumar belongs to a Hindu household.
Dad and mom & Siblings
He’s the son of Prensheela Kumari who’s a retired faculty principal.
Arunabh Kumar along with his mom
Arunabh Kumar along with his father brothers and nephew in Goa
His father can also be a retired faculty principal and he has two brothers.
Spouse & Youngsters
Arunabh met Shruti Ranjan in 2013 at IIT Bombay the place she was pursuing her Masters in Environmental Science. The duo dated one another for a very long time.
Arunabh Kumar along with his fiancee Shruti after engagement
Shruti started her profession as an RTT practitioner and now works as a Theta Therapeutic Practitioner. After assembly Arunabh, she discovered her ardour for pictures and likes to do it in her free time. In April 2020, they received engaged however their wedding ceremony was postponed as a result of Covid-19 pandemic. On 24 Might 2022, the couple lastly received married in a non-public ceremony surrounded by their shut relations and well-wishers.
Arunabh Kumar in his bridal ceremony with Shruti Ranjan
Profession
After finishing IIT, Arunabh Kumar started his profession as a picture processing engineer within the US Air Pressure. He didn’t just like the job and left it. In an interview, he was requested about why he left this job and he answered it by saying,
I feel IIT is the time once I really began getting this factor that there’s something known as movies, film making…and I began having fun with that. That may be the place the place I found my drive and curiosity in it. So you’ll be able to say that IIT is the time the place I found that okay, that is an attention-grabbing area and I would wish to try this. Then I additionally did a few internships, however I found out that lets take the job. I took the US air power job as a result of I used to be put on this topic known as Picture Processing, however I left it after six months solely.
After leaving his engineering job Arunabh joined Purple Chillies Leisure as an assistant director in 2017. His job duties right here included all the things from working round, taking printouts, and serving to in each activity on and offset.
Arunabh Kumar with colleague and pal from Purple Chills Leisure
He was additionally the assistant director in Farah Khan’s movie Om Shanti Om which starred Shah Rukh Khan. He considered commencing his personal TV present, Engineer’s Diary, and despatched a proposal to MTV. Nevertheless, the channel rejected it and that’s how he considered logging on by means of YouTube. As soon as he talked about this rejection and the way he began creating his personal TV exhibits. He stated,
TVF didn’t actually begin from this rejection. TVF Media Labs was an organization that I began for branded content material manufacturing, and it was fairly established a lot earlier than. It was began in 2010-11. Then, solely once I had sufficient cash to assist myself, I considered making my very own TV present. So it’s a false impression that I began TVF as a result of the present received rejected. I had TVF and I had sufficient cash. Actually, TVF isn’t actually a YouTube community, it’s a mom ship which I began. And after one and half years once I had sufficient cash, that’s once we meant to make some TV exhibits, which received rejected. After which I believed that perhaps I ought to try to make my very own present on-line. That’s how TVF on-line community got here into existence.
In 2019, he additionally co-founded Indusverse with Alok Sharma and Saumin Patel and operates as its CEO. This enterprise is devoted to producing comedian books that elevate modern points in society.
Controversies
- In March 2017, an nameless submit was printed on Medium with the title “The Indian Uber- That’s TVF”. This nameless submit was written by a feminine who accused Arunabh of sexually harassing her whereas she labored at TVF between 2014 and 2016. After this submit, over 50 ladies stepped forward and accused him of sexual harassment. On 17 March 2017, an FIR was filed towards Arunabh on the idea of a third-party grievance filed by a lawyer. On 29 March 2017, the police booked him after a molestation grievance was filed by a lady in Mumbai. This was adopted by one other grievance. Arunabh’s affiliation with TVF as its CEO impacted the channel’s picture which was unacceptable by traders. On 16 June 2017, Kumar stepped down from the place of TVF’s CEO place and handed over the cost to Dhawal Gusain.
Awards, Honours, Achievements
- In 2014 he was titled the Newsmaker of the Yr by AFAQs.
- In 2014, he was additionally titled the Males of the Yr by Males’s World.
- In 2015, he made it to Fortune’s High 40 beneath 40 checklist.
- In 2015, he was coated within the Record of Most Influential Younger Indians by GQ journal.
- In 2016, he appeared on the checklist of 10 geniuses redefining creativity by Entrepreneur.
- In 2016, he made it to the 40 beneath forty checklist by The Financial Occasions.
- In 2021, he gained 4 Flyx Filmfare OTT Awards 2020 for the primary season of Panchayat.
Arunabh Kumar after successful 4 Filmfare awards for Panchayat
Internet Price
Arunabh Kumar has an estimated internet price of $20 Million. (approx.)
Favourites
- Meals: Malaysian Delicacies, Poori Chole
- Movies: Khosla ka Ghosla, Shawshank Redemption, Battle Membership and It’s a Fantastic Life
- Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Aamir Khan, and Amitabh Bachchan
Details/Trivia
- He performed a brief look within the movie Om Shanti Om as a transgender.
Arunabh Kumar’s nonetheless in a transgender position from Om Shanti Om
- His exhibits together with Kota Manufacturing facility, Yeh Meri Household, and Gullak have 9 plus scores out of 10 by IMDb.
- He alongside along with his household runs an NGO often known as Masterji basis which works within the area of training.
- In 2020, as a result of despair, he was recognized with partial blindness in his proper eye.
