Timeline
- 1992Born on 24 October in New Delhi, into a Punjabi family. Some profile sites give 1991, and he has not confirmed either year himself.His father, Parveen Bajaj, worked as a Japanese interpreter; his mother is Anita Bajaj.
- 2010Studies at the University of Delhi, appears in stage plays and fashion shows, and is picked after auditioning for a commercial.
- 2011Makes his acting debut in Parvarrish: Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi on Sony Entertainment Television.
- 2016Plays the lead, Rahul, in Dil De Ke Dekho on Sab TV, and appears in Silsila Pyaar Ka.
- 2017Marries Akanksha Jindal in Delhi on 29 November.The marriage later ended; the two separated in 2020 and divorced.
- 2019Makes his film debut in Student of the Year 2, playing Abhishek Sharma, captain of the Pishorilal College team.The same year he was injured in a car accident and needed 16 stitches in his hand.
- 2021 and 2022Appears in Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui and Babli Bouncer, and in the web series Your Honor.
- 2024Plays Chakku Pandey in the web series Nama Cool and Ayaan Grover in the television drama Jubilee Talkies.
- 2025Enters Bigg Boss 19 on 24 August and is evicted on day 77, finishing eleventh, after a housemate uses a vote against him.The season page records the exit as an eviction by Pranit More.
- 2026Records Strong Vs Smart with Pranit More in January, and releases the music video Sherdil, Main Aaj Vi in October, his first credit as a singer.
Who Abhishek Bajaj is
Abhishek Bajaj is an Indian actor who spent the first eight years of his career in television and the years since trying to leave it. He is one of a small group of Hindi television actors who made it into a Dharma Productions film without a film family behind him, and the credit that follows him is Student of the Year 2, a film in which he played the captain of a rival college team.[1][2]
His television work is larger than that one film suggests. He debuted in Parvarrish in 2011, took a lead role in the Sab TV comedy Dil De Ke Dekho, and worked through the supporting parts that pay a working actor's rent in Mumbai: Silsila Pyaar Ka, Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chabhi Meri Bhabhi, Bitti Business Wali, Zindagi Ke Crossroads. That is a decade of serials, most of them forgotten, and it is the actual shape of a television career.[1][2]
He is also a former model who never fully stopped modelling. The fitness and menswear work continued alongside the acting, with campaigns for supplement and clothing brands, and in 2025 he walked as a showstopper at a Jaipur couture show. For an actor in his thirties without a hit film to his name, that combination of advertising work and television is what a career looks like.[2]
Delhi, and the commercial that changed the plan
Bajaj was born in New Delhi on 24 October 1992, the son of Parveen Bajaj, a Japanese interpreter, and Anita Bajaj. He has two sisters, Ekta and Ambika. He completed his schooling in Delhi, where he reportedly scored around 90 per cent in his class 12 examinations, and went on to graduate from the University of Delhi.[2]
The detail that makes his entry into the industry unusual is that he did not plan it. He has said he wanted to become a CBI officer. What changed the direction was college: stage plays and modelling shows, then an audition for a commercial that he was selected for. Modelling followed, and modelling led to the television audition that became Parvarrish.[2]
The Bharat Fast profile gives a slightly different year of birth, 1991, and describes his degree as commerce oriented without naming a college. The Wikipedia entry, which cites his schooling and his father's profession, gives 1992 and the University of Delhi. Neither figure is confirmed by the actor, and this entry treats the date as unsettled rather than choosing one and presenting it as fact.[1][2]
The television years
His first serial was Parvarrish: Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi, which began on Sony Entertainment Television in 2011. It was a family show about parenting, built around two households and their very different approaches to raising children, and it gave a newcomer a regular part in a schedule that ran five nights a week.[1][2]
The lead role came in Dil De Ke Dekho on Sab TV, where he played Rahul. A comedy on Sab TV in that period reached a different audience from a Sony drama: younger, more casual, less invested in a single character across years. He also appeared in Silsila Pyaar Ka and in Santoshi Maa, and in the years that followed in Ek Nanad Ki Khushiyon Ki Chabhi Meri Bhabhi, Bitti Business Wali and Zindagi Ke Crossroads.[1][2]
That is the part of a television actor's career that does not appear in profiles, because the shows are not remembered individually. What it produces is something more useful than fame: the ability to join a running production, learn a character in a week, and work with a new crew every few months. Every actor who crosses from television to film has done this stretch, and most of them describe it the same way, as school.[1]
Films, and the Student of the Year 2 break
His film debut was Student of the Year 2 in 2019, produced by Dharma Productions and directed by Punit Malhotra. He played Abhishek Sharma, captain of the Pishorilal College team, in a film built around a college competition and starring Tiger Shroff, Tara Sutaria and Ananya Panday. It was not a large part. It was, however, a Dharma credit, which in the Hindi film industry is a calling card.[1][2]
The films that followed were a mix of small and mid budget. Kabaad: The Coin, then Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui in 2021, where he appeared alongside Ayushman Khurrana and Vaani Kapoor in a film about a bodybuilder and his girlfriend, and Babli Bouncer in 2022. None of them made him a lead. All of them put his face in front of an audience that does not watch television serials.[2]
In the same period he worked in web series, including Boys With Toys and Your Honor in 2021, and later Nama Cool, where he played a character from Uttar Pradesh called Chakku Pandey. In 2024 he took the role of Ayaan Grover in the television drama Jubilee Talkies, and appeared in the crossover episodes of Pukaar. The pattern across all of it is a working actor moving between formats rather than committing to one.[2]
Advertising, fashion and the fitness business
Bajaj's advertising work is more extensive than most actors of his profile, and it is the most reliable part of his income. He has fronted campaigns for supplement brands including MuscleBlaze, for Marks and Spencer in India, and for Gillette, and he appeared on the cover of Entitle Magazine in December 2021. Fitness is the through line: the campaigns are built on a physique he maintains and posts about.[2]
In 2025 he walked as a showstopper for the designer Alok Agarwal at the Jaipur Couture Show. Runway work of that kind is not usually a news event, but for an actor without a release in the year it keeps him in the trade press and in front of the stylists who book the campaigns.[2]
There is an obvious commercial logic to this. A television actor who is between serials has no salary and no publicity, and brand work fills both gaps. It is also the reason his public image is built around fitness and grooming rather than around a character, which is what a reality show casting team is looking for.[2]
The 2019 accident
In 2019 Bajaj was involved in a car accident and injured his hand badly enough to need 16 stitches. He resumed work afterwards. The detail is in his record and not much more than that: no interview this entry found sets out where or how the accident happened, and he has not used it as part of his story.[2]
It is worth noting only because of when it happened, in the year of his film debut, when an actor's schedule is least forgiving. A hand injury for a working model is a direct threat to the work, and the fact that he was back at it within the year is more informative than the injury itself.[2]
Marriage, and what the record actually shows
Bajaj married Akanksha Jindal in Delhi on 29 November 2017. The Bharat Fast profile describes a proposal and engagement in October of the same year and a marriage that has lasted. Wikipedia, which is more recent, records that he was previously married, that the two separated in 2020 and that the divorce was mutual.[1][2]
The two accounts cannot both be current, and the difference matters because profile sites are often years out of date on a personal life. This entry follows the more recent source and states the marriage, the separation and the divorce, without adding detail that neither source carries.[1][2]
He has not discussed the marriage publicly in any interview this entry could find, and there is no statement from either party about the separation. That is the whole of the public record on it.
Bigg Boss 19: eleven weeks and a single vote
Bajaj entered Bigg Boss 19 on 24 August 2025, on the premiere, as one of eighteen housemates. He was 32 at the time, a television actor with a film credit and no large social media following, in a house that also contained creators with millions of followers. His route through the season was quieter than the loudest contestants and longer than most of them.[2][3]
He lasted until day 77, which put him in the last third of a 105 day season. The exit was unusual. Wikipedia records that he was eliminated after a single fellow contestant voted him out rather than through the audience vote, finishing eleventh. The season page names the contestant: the eviction is logged as one by Pranit More.[2][3]
That mechanism is the reason his exit is remembered at all. A housemate given the power to remove one person, in a week when the nominated group included Bajaj and Neelam Giri, both of whom went out that day, turns a popularity contest into a decision made by one player. Whether the power was earned in a task or handed over by the makers is not something the public record explains, and this entry does not invent it.[3]
The reception afterwards was warmer than his finish suggests. Wikipedia notes that his gameplay was praised by media commentators, that he became one of the more discussed contestants of the season, and that during Family Week his relatives inside the house described him as a strong contender who should have stayed longer. That is the standard aftermath of an unfair exit, and it is also the kind of coverage a contestant cannot buy.[2]
After the house: music, and a new format
In January 2026 he collaborated with Pranit More, the comedian who had voted him out two months earlier, on a rap track called Strong Vs Smart, released to promote Beast Games season 2. The collaboration is the clearest evidence that the eviction was a game mechanic rather than a falling out: the two men were working together within weeks.[2]
In October 2026 he released Sherdil, Main Aaj Vi, a music video under the label The LSD Music. Wikipedia records it as his debut as a singer and as a concept creator. It is a small release by the standards of the music business and a deliberate one for an actor: a music video is cheap to make, travels on social platforms, and does not require a producer to cast him.[2]
He has no announced film or serial for the period after Bigg Boss 19. For an actor who has spent fifteen years moving between formats, that is not unusual, and the pattern suggests the next credit will come from whichever of television, advertising or music pays first.[2]
What has not been confirmed
His date of birth is not settled. Wikipedia gives 24 October 1992 and Bharat Fast gives 24 October 1991, which suggests the day and month are agreed and the year is not. He has not confirmed either, so the age that circulates is a database figure.[1][2]
His height and weight are published by profile sites and not by him, and the numbers differ between sites. The same is true of his net worth: the figures reported for 2025 are estimates built from assumed endorsement rates, not a disclosure, and they are not repeated here as fact.[1]
His fee for Bigg Boss 19 has not been made public by him or by the makers. The circumstances of his eviction, meaning how the power to remove a housemate was assigned, are described in the season record but not explained, and the show did not publish a rule that accounts for it. The name of the college he graduated from in Delhi is also unconfirmed, since one source says only that he has a degree from the University of Delhi.
Questions about this entry
Who is Abhishek Bajaj?
Abhishek Bajaj came to acting through modelling, and to modelling through a commercial he auditioned for while he was still a student in Delhi.
What is Abhishek Bajaj known for?
Abhishek Bajaj came to acting through modelling, and to modelling through a commercial he auditioned for while he was still a student in Delhi.
When was Abhishek Bajaj born?
Abhishek Bajaj was born in 24 October 1992.
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