Vidyut Jamwal is a well known actor, model and martial artist. He has acted in a number of Bollywood and South Indian movies. He has been given the name of New Action Hero of India.
Net Worth: $ 1 million
Income Sources: Vidyut Jamwal makes his earning from Hindi and South Indian movies. He charges an amount of nearly Rs 1 crore per movie. He has also done some modeling assignments, including ramp modeling for big names like Manish Malhotra.
Born: 10th December, 1980 (34 years old)
Nick Name: Singu
Marital Status: Single. He is in a relationship with television actress, Mona Singh of “Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin” fame.
Height/Weight: 5 feet 10 inches, 72 kg
Personal Background
Vidyut Jamwal was born in Jammu and hails from an army background, with his father being an army officer. He spent his childhood at various locations across the country, and started training in martial arts at a tender age of three years from an ashram run by his mother in Kerala. As he grew up, Vidyut specialized in various forms of martial arts including Kalaripayat, Jiu Jitsu and Gymnastics. He performed martial arts shows all over the world before starting his acting career. His fit physique and good looks beckoned him to a career in modeling and later, films. He is a health conscious person and a pure vegetarian, earning the title of PETA’s hottest vegetarian for 2014. He has also received the place on the lists of “Fittest Men Alive” and “Sexiest Men on the Earth”. He has recently started a course for training young girls the art of self defense through martial art. Vidyut leads a lavish lifestyle and drives around in an Audi car, which reflects his taste and style.
Career Graph
Vidyut Jamwal earned his role in the 2012 movie “Force” by beating thousands of contestants in the audition rounds. He played the negative role in this movie, opposite John Abraham and won the Most Promising Debut Award for 2012. Later, he worked in a number of Tamil and Telugu movies like “Billa II”, “Thuppakki”, “Shakti” and “Oosaravelli”. His next Hindi movie “Commando” was an extraordinary fare as far as action is concerned and earned him huge accolades. In fact, Vidyut had performed all the perilous stunts in the movie without duplicates or safety equipment. Next came another action packed performance in the Tigmanshu Dhulia film called “Bullett Raja”, in which he co starred with Saif Ali Khan. The same director has cast Vidyut for his next movie “Yaara”, which is a remake of the French movie called “Les Lyonnais”. He will be soon seen in two other movies, one by director Ram Madhvani and another by Rajkumar Santoshi. He works with his own team of action stuntmen, who perform the job of carrying out the actions scenes in his movies. Vidyut has carved a niche for himself in the action field with his extraordinary stunts and fearless performances. It would not be wrong to say that he has introduced a new era in Bollywood action.
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