Jitendra Kumar is an Indian actor, widely recognized for his role as ‘Jeetu Bhaiya’ in Kota Factory (2019). He made his Bollywood debut with Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (2020).
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Jitendra Kumar was born on Saturday, 1 September 1990 (age 29; as of 2019) in Khairthal, Alwar, Rajasthan. His zodiac sign is Virgo. He completed his education from Rajasthan and went to IIT Kharagpur to pursue his B.Tech. in the field of civil engineering.
Jitendra Kumar’s childhood photos
Old photos of Jitendra Kumar
Jitendra Kumar in college
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′ 5″
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family
Parents and siblings
Jitendra Kumar’s father is a civil engineer. He has two sisters, Ritu and Chitra (Chinki).
Jitendra Kumar’s childhood photos with his parents
Jitendra Kumar’s childhood photos
Jitendra Kumar and his mother
Jitendra Kumar and his sister
He is rumored to be in a relationship with his web series co-star Akanksha Thakur.
Jitendra Kumar and Akanksha Thakur
Profession
Jitendra started his acting career in 2012 on the popular YouTube channel TVF. He played an overly sensitive corporate intern in his first video Munna Jazbaati: The Q-tiya Intern. The video immediately went viral, with more than 3 million views on YouTube within hours of being posted.
Jitendra Kumar as Munna Jazbaati
He subsequently played various roles in many YouTube videos, including “Tech Talk with Dad” and “TVF The Bachelor Series.”
Different roles played by Jitendra Kumar in YouTube videos
In 2014, he made a spoof video of Arvind Kejriwal along with him.
Jitendra Kumar and Arvind Kejriwal
In 2008, Kumar made a cameo appearance in the Bollywood film “Wednesday”, playing a taxi driver. In addition to TVF videos, he also played important roles in web series such as “Permanent Roommate” (2014), in which he played the role of the confused groom “Gittu”.
Jitendra Kumar permanent roommate
In 2019, he made his debut in the Bollywood movie “Gone Kesh”.
Jitendra Kumar “Gone Kesh”
Jitendra has also appeared in various television commercials such as ‘Voltas AC’.
Jitendra Kumar in TV commercial
He gained popularity with the TVF web series Kota Factory (2019), which is considered to be India’s first black and white web series. He plays the role of ‘Jeetu Bhaiya’ in this web series.
In 2020, he starred in the Bollywood film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan alongside Ayushmann Khurana. He had a lip kiss scene with Ayushmann in this film.
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Facts/Trivia
- One day, when he was in college, his seniors forced him to give a speech in English. He was supposed to perform lines from Al Pacino’s 1992 film Scent of a Woman. Although his English was not very good, his performance left a deep impression on the senior students. They suggested that he join the university’s Hindi Tech Theater Society. He even won a bronze medal for speech at graduation.
- After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in technology, he worked for a company for 8 months, but he didn’t like his job and decided to quit. After that, he met Biswapati Sarkar, the creative director of TVF, who invited him to join TVF (The Viral Fever).
- Biswapati was Jitendra’s fourth-year college student and performed in plays with him. Jitendra is also a member of the Hindi Tech Theater Society of IIT Kharagpur.
Jitendra Kumar and Biswapati Sarkar
- His hobbies include making paper wall art, playing guitar and playing cricket.
Jitendra Kumar plays guitar
- Jitendra loves dogs very much.
Jitendra Kumar likes dogs
- His family and friends fondly call him Jeetu.
- His college friends revealed that he was very lazy in college and never got up before noon.
- He loves poetry and his Twitter handle is #Farjigulzar; as he is a big fan of lyricist Gulzar.
- He applied to the National School of Drama, Delhi, but was rejected in the second round. After being rejected by the NSD, he moved to Mumbai where he worked five days a week and taught physics and mathematics on the remaining two days to pay his fees.
- He shared an old photo from his college days with actor Ayushmann Khurrana on his Instagram account, which went viral on social media.
Old photos of Jitendra Kumar and Ayushmann Khurrana
- He was often spotted drinking at parties.
Jitendra Kumar in the restaurant
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