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Ashok Kumar Arora’s journey from Benaras to Bollywood

Ashok Kumar Arora

Bollywood, the filmy town of Hindi film industry has always welcomed new talent. One such promising actor-producer from a non filmy background is Ashok Kumar Arora who has origins in Uttar Pradesh and is now a famous figure in Mumbai.

The talented Ashok Kumar Arora who hails from from the holy city of Benares is a predominantly known face in Bollywood. He is also a producer and his friends in the industry know him as Andy Arora. He has a diverse acting experience that began with 4 years of doing theater in Lucknow in the Bhartendu Natya Academy, then later a 3 years stint in Canada after which he landed 6 years ago in Mumbai and is a known face among the actors.

He has to his credit films like Sharmaji Ki Lag Gayee starring Mugdha Godse, Brijendra Kala, Krishna Abhishek, Shweta Khanduri and Mukesh Tiwari, that was directed by Manoj Sharma and Addiction of which he was a producer and acted in it too and had the message to the youth to refrain from consuming drugs as it is very dangerous. This comedy drama that almost causes marital troubles in innocent peoples lives. A prude professor who happens to be the sex columnist of a weekly newspaper owned by an influential tycoon.

The philanthropist Ashok Kumar Arora is also the head of a pharmaceutical company that also donates free medicine to the needy, as evident from the free medicines he distributed to to the poor and needy during the rough times of the Covid Pandemic.

Ashok Kumar Arora has a Hindi film from a big banner in his kitty that is in final stages of planning and is expected to be be announced very soon.

–  Sandeep Hattangadi

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