Pankaj Tripathi Biography
- Born on 5 September 1976, Pankaj Tripathi is famous for his incredible acting in Gangs of Wasseypur, Fukrey, Barfi, Stree, and Newton.
- Pankaj was born in Belsand, a small town in the Gopalganj district of Bihar, India.
- He is also awarded National Film Award for his movie Newton.
- Tripathi is also seen in web series like Sacred Games playing the role of Khanna Guruji.
Family & Personal Details
- Tripathi was born in the Hindu family and his father Pandit Banaras Tiwari is a farmer and priest.
- His mother Hemwanti is a homemaker. Pankaj has 2 elder brothers as well as 2 elder sisters. Tripathi is the youngest among his siblings.
- On 15th January 2004, Pankaj married Mridula who is a teacher by profession.
- The couple is also blessed with a sweet daughter named Aashi Tripathi.
- Pankaj tells that his wife Mridula helped him a lot during his struggling days. She started teaching in a school located in Goregaon to help Tripathi financially.
- He also worked as a farmer along with his father till class 11th.
Education & Qualification
- Pankaj completed his schooling from D.P.H school, Gopalganj, Bihar. In his school time, he used to b a great athlete.
- Right from his childhood days, he was interested in the acting field and often used to act as a girl artist during Chhath Festivals in his Gopalganj village.
- His father always wanted Pankaj to become a doctor due to which he was sent to Patna after completing his schooling.
- When he was pursuing his studies in college, he decided to join RSS and became the leader of ABVP which is a student organization.
- Tripathi used to a fluent speaker and was very much into college politics & protest due to which he was also behind bars for a few days.
- Pankaj also joined a course in hotel management after completing his college studies.
- In the Five Star Hotel Maurya, Patna; Pankaj has worked for two years as a cook.
- Later Pankaj decided to move to Delhi after staying in Patna for seven long years.
- He took admission in National School of Drama and graduated from the college in 2004.
- However, before featuring films Pankaj performed in a number of theatres for a long time.
Physical Appearance
- Tripathi is a tall, dashing and handsome actor with almost 5’10” or 178cm height.
- He weighs almost 70 kg and has a dark brown eye color and black hair color.
- Pankaj also has a perfect physique and personality.
Acting Career
- After Pankaj got graduated from the National School of Drama, he moved to
- Mumbai and got the chance to play a small role in the film ‘Run’.
- In this movie, he is seen acting with Abhishek Bachchan and Vijay Raaz.
- Tripathi also got the chance to work in the film Omkara which gave him fame.
- He is also seen in playing different roles in the movie Dharm, Raavan as well as Chillar Party.
- Pankaj has also acted in different television series such as Powder as well as Zindagi Ka Kar Rang Gulaal.
- He has also worked in the movie Apaharan which is directed by Prakash Jha. In this movie, he acted with some famous actors like Bipasha Basu and Ajay Devgan.
- Pankaj’s breakthrough came in crime drama series Gang of Wasseypur which is directed by Anurag Kashyap in the year 2012.
- In this movie, he is seen playing an outstanding role of henchman Sultan Qureshi.
- He was highly praised by the audience for his excellent performance in the film, while Pankaj also started receiving more offers from different filmmakers.
- Having the experience of working in more than 40 films, Pankaj is also seen playing a major role in Dabangg 2 & Fukrey.
- In the year 2015, Tripathi is also seen acting in the movie Manjhi: The Mountain Main and Masaan.
- In this movie, he got the chance to work with some known actors like Richa Chadda, Sanjay Mishra, and Vicky Kaushal.
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His movie Massan before releasing in India got released at Cannes Film Festival.
- However, he got a very small role to play in the movie Massan but he proved himself and made identity in that short role.
- Pankaj got his first lead role in the movie Gurgaon which is directed by Shanker Raman. This film released in 2017.
- Pankaj’s film Newton in the year 2017 turned out India’s official entry for the Academy Award in the best foreign film category.
- Newton is a comedy drama film where Tripathi is seen playing the role of upright CRPF officer Atma Singh.
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His incredible performance in Newton made him win National Award.
- Pankaj is also seen playing role in Tamil cinema in the movie Kaala.
- This movie released in the year 2018 and Tripathi got the privilege to work with Nana Patekar as well as Rajinikanth.
- Due to his amazing acting, Pankaj also got the chance to work in box office hit movies like Stree and Amgrezi Mein Kehte Hain.
- In the year 2019, Tripathi is also seen in some super hit films like Super 30, Yours Truly, Luka Chuppi, Kissebaaz as well as Dabangg 3.
- He is seen playing an amazing role along with Radhika Madan as well as Irrfan Khan in the movie Angrezi Medium.
- Not only in films but Pankaj is also seen working in Amazon prime original Mirzapur and Netflix original Sacred Games.
- He is also seen in movie Tanhaji along with Ajay Devgn as well as Saif Ali Khan.
Interesting Facts about Pankaj Tripathi
- Pankaj Tripathi is a big fan of Amitabh Bachchan.
- Tripathi never knew what movies or films are till class 10th because he was not having a television in his home.
- When Pankaj was in jail for a week he decided to pursue his career in acting.
- Tripathi gave the longest interview in his life for almost eight to nine hours when he was called for the audition of movie Gangs of Wasseypur.
- Pankaj’s story starts from jail cell to the hotel kitchen and then finally as a famous actor at the big screen.
- He has a huge fan following on different social media platforms. Pankaj has 209.3k followers on Twitter and 3.9 Million followers on Instagram.
- Pankaj Tripathi always considers Manoj Bajpai as his inspirational source.
- Tripathi applied for doing graduation from the National School of Drama but was rejected twice.
- Pankaj saw Mridula for the first time in his sister’s marriage. They both were in a relationship for 11 long years and then got married.
- Andha Kuan- Play of Laxam Narayan Rai changed his life completely.
- Pankaj survived for a year by only eating Khichdi when he joined Bihar Art Theatre.
- Tripathi often motivates the youth of India with his true words: “Agar aap focused aur dedicated hai to raaste apne aap bante hate hai, Google ki zarurt nahi apdti navigation ke liye.”
- Pankaj believes in living a simple life and his parents still live in the village without any television in their home.
- However, for his role in the “Run” movie, he was not given any credits.
