Timeline
- 1993Born on 19 February in Delhi and raised in the capital.The date appears in both Wikipedia and Bharat Fast's profile.
- 2015Resigns from an assistant manager's job at a multinational automobile company and moves to Mumbai in October to act full time.
- 2016Television debut in D4 - Get Up and Dance, followed by cameos in Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya and Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi.
- 2018Plays Daksh Munshi, an antagonist, in Naagin 3, the role that made him familiar to a national audience.
- 2018Follows it with Veer Singh Chauhan in Daayan, a supernatural drama that ran into 2019.
- 2021Plays Shikhar Shastri in Prem Bandhan, then joins Bhagya Lakshmi on Zee TV as Ayushmaan Chopra in August.
- 2025Leaves Bhagya Lakshmi in June and joins Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2 as Hrithik Virani in July.
- 2026Appears in the spin-off Kyunki Rishton Ke Bhi Roop Badalte Hain from March to August, then enters Bigg Boss 20 in September.Evicted on 17 October in the season's fifth elimination, finishing 14th.
Who Aman Gandhi is
Aman Gandhi is a working television actor of the kind that the Hindi industry depends on and rarely celebrates. He is not a star who carries a show on his name, and he has not won a major individual award. He is the actor a producer casts when a daily soap needs a second lead who can hold a scene for four years, which is a different and in some ways harder job than being the reason people switch on.[1][2]
His career has three clear stages. The first is a run of small parts between 2016 and 2018, when he was learning the grammar of television on shows that gave him a scene or two. The second is the antagonist years, when Naagin 3 and Daayan put him in the supernatural strand of Hindi television that was then drawing large numbers. The third is the daily soap stage, where Bhagya Lakshmi made him a familiar face in a prime-time slot and Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2 placed him inside a franchise with its own history.[2]
Each stage required a different skill. Cameos reward speed, because an actor may have a day to establish a character. Antagonists reward presence, because the plot needs someone the audience enjoys disliking. Daily soaps reward endurance and consistency, because the character has to remain the same person across years of script changes and cast changes. Gandhi's career is a record of learning all three in order.[1][2]
Delhi, the automobile job and the move in October 2015
Gandhi was born in Delhi on 19 February 1993 and grew up in the capital. He graduated with a degree in business administration and took the job that a family in his position would recognise as a good one: assistant manager at a multinational automobile company. It was secure, it had a ladder, and it had nothing to do with acting.[1][2]
He resigned in 2015 and moved to Mumbai in October. The timing is worth noting because it was not a moment when television was expanding quickly. The daily soap boom of the 2000s had matured, streaming had not yet arrived as a mass employer, and an actor arriving without contacts joined a queue that had been forming for a decade. Bharat Fast describes the period between the move and the first role as one of auditions and theatre workshops, which is the standard account and probably the accurate one.[1]
The decision is the part of his story that he has spoken about inside the Bigg Boss house, and it is easy to see why. Leaving a salaried job for an uncertain one is legible to almost anyone, and it gives a reality show contestant a narrative that does not depend on a serial's plot. It also explains the shape of the career that followed: an actor who took cameos because he needed the work, rather than waiting for a lead.[1][2]
D4 and the cameo years
His first screen credit was D4 - Get Up and Dance in 2016, where he appeared in a dancing role. It is a small beginning and a useful one to keep in the record, because it shows that the entry point was not a serial but a dance format, and that the acting work came after.[2]
The cameos that followed are the ordinary apprenticeship of Hindi television. Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya was an episodic anthology that gave a new cast a story every week. Kuch Rang Pyar Ke Aise Bhi was a family drama with a large ensemble. Sasural Simar Ka and Gudiya Hamari Sabhi Pe Bhari were long running shows where a new face could be introduced for an arc and written out again. Kundali Bhagya, one of the most watched serials of the period, put him in a production that ran for years.[2]
None of these parts made him famous. What they did was put him in front of casting directors repeatedly, in different production houses, at a time when the industry was producing more hours of television than it had actors trained for it. That is how a working actor is made in Mumbai: not by one break but by being available when a hundred small decisions are made.[1][2]
Naagin 3 and the antagonist turn
The break came in 2018 with Naagin 3, where he played Daksh Munshi, one of the antagonists. The Naagin franchise is one of the most durable properties in Hindi television, built on a supernatural premise that allows the show to replace its cast every season and keep the title. Being cast in it meant joining a machine with a built in audience and a very specific performance style.[1][2]
A negative role in that franchise is a particular kind of exposure. The character has to be strong enough to justify the plot's escalations, which gives the actor more screen time than a supporting lead in a family drama, and the audience remembers the villain in a way it often does not remember the second lead. For an actor who had spent two years in cameos, it was the first part that gave him something to do.[2]
He followed it with Daayan, playing Veer Singh Chauhan from 2018 to 2019. The two shows sit in the same supernatural strand, and together they established him as a reliable presence in a genre that was, at the time, one of the few places Hindi television was willing to spend on production design.[2]
Bhagya Lakshmi and four years as Ayush
In 2021 he played Shikhar Shastri in Prem Bandhan, and in August of the same year he joined Bhagya Lakshmi on Zee TV as Ayushmaan Chopra, known in the show as Ayush. He stayed until June 2025. Four years in one daily soap is the longest continuous engagement of his career, and it is the role that most people who recognise him would name first.[2][1]
Bhagya Lakshmi is a family drama built around a marriage, a separation and the obligations that keep the two families tied together. Ayush is the kind of part that a long running soap needs: a character close enough to the leads to be in the central plot, independent enough to have his own story, and likeable enough that the audience does not resent the screen time. Playing it for four years means playing every version of that character the writers needed, including the versions that arrive after a ratings dip.[1][2]
The role also changed how casting directors saw him. An actor who has held a part in a prime-time serial for four years is a known quantity on a set, which is worth more in television than a good audition. It is the reason the next offer was a franchise revival rather than another anthology episode.[2]
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2 and the spin-off
From July 2025 he has played Hrithik Virani, a second generation lead, in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2. The original Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi ran from 2000 to 2008 and is one of the shows that built Star Plus as an entertainment channel. A revival carries a different burden from a new serial: it arrives with an audience that remembers the first version and a press that will compare the two.[2][1]
Between March and August 2026 he also appeared in the spin-off, Kyunki Rishton Ke Bhi Roop Badalte Hain. Spin-offs are a familiar move in Indian television when a franchise still has an audience but the main show has run through its central plots. For an actor, working across both means carrying the same character into a second production with a different writers room and a different schedule.[2]
The franchise work is also what made his Bigg Boss casting legible. A contestant introduced as the actor from Bhagya Lakshmi and the Kyunki revival is a known face to the audience the show is trying to hold, at a moment when the rest of the house was being filled with people whose fame came from a phone.[2][4]
Bigg Boss 20: five weeks and one conversation
Gandhi entered Bigg Boss 20 on 6 September 2026 as one of the original housemates. The season's cast mixed television actors with creators, a retired boxer and a rapper, and its format gave every contestant two lives, so an early eviction was not always an exit. Gandhi was not nominated in the first week in the way that Rohed Khan and Aasif Khan were, and he lasted into the fifth week.[3][2]
His stay is remembered for a single conversation. He spoke inside the house about his former girlfriend, the actor Shagun Sharma, and said he had come to understand the bond they shared better than he did at the time. The two had worked together in Kyunki Rishton Ke Bhi Roop Badalte Hain, where Sharma played his onscreen sister, and their relationship had been revealed in 2025. Wikipedia records that he said in the house that they had broken up in September 2026.[2][1]
He was evicted on 17 October in the season's fifth elimination, finishing in 14th place. India Today reported that the vote fell short after five weeks in the house. In a season built around a second chance, his exit was the ordinary kind: a contestant who had been visible, had one story that landed, and did not have the kind of conflict the format rewards.[2][4]
The weeks after an eviction are where a television actor's career is decided. A reality show gives a contestant a larger audience for three months and no script for what to do with it. Gandhi's next move was not announced at the time of writing, and the record should say so rather than guess.[4]
What has not been confirmed
His height and weight are not published by him. Bharat Fast lists 5 feet 10 inches and around 72 kg, and no interview or official profile in the sources checked carries the same numbers.[1]
His family is largely private. Bharat Fast says he comes from a well educated Delhi household and that he has not shared details about his parents or siblings. That is consistent with the rest of the coverage, which does not name them, and it means the household should not be described beyond the city and the general description.[1]
His net worth has no reliable figure. Bharat Fast is explicit that no confirmed number exists, and the income streams it lists, serial contracts, reality television, brand appearances and modelling, are the standard mix for an actor of his profile rather than a disclosed set of earnings.[1]
The state of his relationship with Shagun Sharma is unresolved in public. He described her as a former partner inside the house, and Wikipedia records his statement that they broke up in September 2026. Neither person has confirmed a reconciliation, and reports of one should be treated as speculation.[2][1]
His fee for Bigg Boss 20 has not been disclosed. Figures that circulate for reality show fees are usually estimates built from a contestant's previous rate, and no source checked for this entry attributes a number to him or to the makers.[4]
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Aman Gandhi is a Delhi born television actor who left a job at an automobile company in 2015 to try acting in Mumbai.
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Aman Gandhi is a Delhi born television actor who left a job at an automobile company in 2015 to try acting in Mumbai.
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