Akashdeep Saigal

Akashdeep Saigal

Born	Akashdeep Saigal (1974-10-29) 29 October 1974 Mumbai, India
Other names	Sky Walker
Occupation	Model and Actor
Years active	1997–present

Akashdeep Saigal aka 'Sky Walker' (born 29 October 1974) is an Indian model and a television actor. He is well known for playing the role of Ansh Gujral on popular serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on Star Plus.^[1] He was most recently seen in the Indian Television's Reality Show "Bigg Boss" Season 5 from October 2011 to January 7, 2012.

Personal life

Saigal's father and older brother are lawyers. He also has a sister, Madhu Bhatia who lives in Dubai. During his modeling days he dated Madhu Sapre for 6 months, choreographer - director Farah Khan for 2 years and Shazahn Padamsee for 3 years. He took the alias 'Sky Walker' on the suggestion of his numerologist for better career prospects.

Career

Akash shot to fame as the winner of the Gladrags Manhunt Contestant, supermodel of the year in 1998. The same year he appeared on the 1998 music video for Shweta Shetty's Deewane to Deewane Hain. He started his acting career with the film Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi (1999). He made his debut on small screen with the popular serial Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi on Star Plus.^[2] He had participated in the first season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, a dance competition on Sony Entertainment Television channel.^[3]

In 2009, he has played the role of the villain in Tamil blockbuster hit Ayan.

Works

Television

2004-2005 Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Ansh Virani / Ansh Gujral
2005 Kkusum as Trishul Kapoor
2005 Time Bomb 9/11 as Usmaan Bin Laden
2006-2008 Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Eklavya Virani / Eklavya Gujral
2007-2008 Kuchh Is Tara as Ranbir Nanda
2008 Kahaani Hamaaray Mahaabhaarat Ki as Kans

Reality shows

2006 Fear Factor India as Contestant
2006 Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 1 as Contestant
2008 Kaho Na Yaar Hai as Contestant
2008 Comedy Circus 2 as Contestant
2008 Lux Kaun Jeetega Bollywood Ka Ticket as Contestant ^[4] and evicted due to health issue.
2009 Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao as Contestant
2011 Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout as Contestant
2011 Bigg Boss 5 as Contestant

Films

1999 Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi as Ronnie
2003 Supari as Mushy
2009 Ayan as Kamalesh (Tamil film)
2013 SR
2014 Sultanat (2014 film)Pakistani Film
2016 Kavan

References

↑ Dare to play devil?, Mumbai Mirror. Mumbaimirror.com. Retrieved on 2011-11-03.
↑ Ansh... Knocked Off. The Hindu. December 16, 2004
↑ A finger in every pie. The Hindu. September 6, 2004
↑ "This'll be my big screen debut: Devdutta". Times of India. Retrieved 26 May 2014.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Akashdeep Saigal.

Akashdeep Saigal at the Internet Movie Database

Awards for Akashdeep Saigal

Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Negative Role

Popular	Govind Namdeo (2002) Mohnish Bahl Manoj Joshi (2003) Shabbir Ahluwalia (2004) Akashdeep Saigal (2005) Mohnish Bahl (2006) Ronit Roy (2007) Jatin Shah (2008) Sudesh Berry (2009) Anupam Shyam (2010) Karanvir Bohra (2012) Mahesh Shetty (2013) Praneet Bhat (2014)

Jury	Yashpal Sharma (2010) Anupam Shyam (2012) Kiran Karmarkar (2013) Kishor Kadam (2014)

Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa – Dancing with the Stars

Hosts

Current	Manish Paul

Former	Archana Puran Singh Parmeet Sethi Mona Singh Shweta Tiwari Rohit Roy Sumeet Raghavan Ragini Khanna Kapil Sharma Drashti Dhami Ranvir Shorey

Judges

Current	Ganesh Hegde Karan Johar Jacqueline Fernandez

Former	Madhuri Dixit Remo D'Souza Shahid Kapoor Lauren Gottlieb Malaika Arora Khan Maksim Chmerkovskiy Sanjay Leela Bhansali Shilpa Shetty Farah Khan Vaibhavi Merchant Urmila Matondkar Shiamak Davar Saroj Khan Jeetendra Juhi Chawla

Celebrity
Contestants

Winners	Mona Singh Prachi Desai Baichung Bhutia Meiyang Chаng Gurmeet Choudhary Drashti Dhami Ashish Sharma Faisal Khan (actor)

1st Runners-Up	Shweta Salve Sandhya Mridul Gauhar Khan Sushant Singh Rajput Rashami Desai Lauren Gottlieb Karan Tacker Sanaya Irani

2nd Runners-Up	Mahesh Manjrekar Jay Bhanushali Karan Singh Grover Yana Gupta Rithvik Dhanjani Sonali & Sumanth Shakti Mohan Shamita Shetty

Other Contestants

Season 1	Ajay Jadeja Akashdeep Saigal Sanjeev Kapoor Rati Agnihotri Pooja Bedi

Season 2	Mir Ranjan Negi Sonali Kulkarni Ronit Roy Mika Singh Sudha Chandran Cyrus Broacha Mini Mathur Tapur Chatterjee Aadesh Shrivastava

Season 3	Hard Kaur Parul Chauhan Shilpa Shukla Monica Bedi Ram Kapoor Mohinder Amarnath Anand Raj Anand Ugesh Sarkar Bhagyashree

Season 4	Mahhi Vij Ankita Lokhande Ragini Khanna Shekhar Suman Dayanand Shetty Krishna Abhishek Akhil Kumar Renuka Shahane Anushka Manchanda

Season 5	Isha Sharvani Bharti Singh Karan Wahi Shibani Dandekar Giaa Manek Darsheel Safary Pratyusha Banerjee Ravi Kishan Jayati Bhatia Sanath Jayasuriya Archana Vijaya Sushil Kumar Talat Aziz

Season 6	Shaan Mukti Mohan Sana Saeed Siddharth Shukla Karanvir Bohra Karan Patel Mantra Aarti Chhabria Shweta Tiwari Ekta Kaul Meghna Malik Krishnamachari Srikkanth Suresh Menon

Season 7	Mouni Roy Akshat Singh Sophie Choudry Tara-Jean Popowich Kiku Sharda Malishka Mendonsa Kushal Punjabi Pooja Banerji S. Sreesanth Sukhwinder Singh Kritika Kamra Purab Kohli VJ Andy

Season 8	Mohit Malik Anita Hassanandani Neha Marda Roopal Tyagi Scarlett Wilson Raftaar Vivian Dsena Ashish Chaudhary Subhreet Kaur Ghumman Irfan Pathan Radhika Madan Kavita Kaushik Dipika Kakar

Season 9	Karishma Tanna Arjun Bijlani Helly Shah Sidhant Gupta Nora Fatehi Shakti Arora Harpal Singh Sokhi Salman Yusuff Khan Gaurav Gera Spandan Chaturvedi Siddharth Nigam Gracy Goswami Swasti Nitya Shantanu Maheshwari Priyanka Shah Poonam Shah

Dancing with the Stars (international)

Bigg Boss 5

Contestants	Shakti Kapoor Pooja Bedi Shonali Nagrani Nihita Biswas Shraddha Sharma Mandeep Bevli Raageshwari Vida Samadzai Sonika Kaliraman Pooja Misrra Gulabo Sapera Laxmi Narayan Tripathi Amar Upadhyay Siddharth Bhardwaj Akashdeep Saighal Sunny Leone

Runner—up	Mahek Chahal

Winner	Juhi Parmar

Host	Sanjay Dutt

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