Happy Birthday to Vicky Kaushal, young Indian actor, born on May 16, 1988, in Mumbai, India. Vicky’s father, Shyam, is an action director and stunt coordinator in Bollywood, and his brother, Sunny, is an assistant director. Vicky started his career working in theatre and had minor roles in ‘Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana’ and ‘Bombay Velvet’.  Neeraj Ghaywan was an assistant director of ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’ when he met Vicky who was assisting director Anurag Kashyap. Neeraj had Vicky audition for his first full length film ‘Masaan’ (2015). He plays an educated young man from a family of low-caste corpse burners in Varanasi, trying to lift himself out of the bonds of his caste. The film and Vicky Kaushal won critical acclaim. He also won Best Debut Male from Zee Cine Award, Screen Awards, and IIFA Awards. His second film was ‘Zubaan’ (2016), in which he was a young man overcoming fear and regaining his faith in his music. In his third film, ‘Raman Raghav 2.0’, he co-starred with Nawazuddin Siddiqui as a drug-addicted policeman in search of a serial killer. Vicky had a breakthrough year in 2018 with the release of three major successes. In ‘Raazi’, Vicky was Alia Bhatt’s Pakistani husband, in ‘Manmarziyaan’, he was a DJ afraid of commitment, and in biopic ‘Sanju’, he was Sanjay Dutt’s best friend. That role won him his first Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor. ‘Uri-The Surgical Strike’, a patriotic film with Vicky portraying an army Major, was box office gold in 2019.  Vicky won a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award for Best Actor for this role. He was last seen in ‘Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship’ (2020).