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Parmeet Sethi

Parmeet Sethi
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Parmeet Sethi
Born (1961-10-14) 14 October 1961 (age 55)
New Delhi, India
Nationality Indian
Occupation Actor, Film producer & Director, Writer
Spouse(s) Archana Puran Singh
Children
  • Ayushman Sethi
  • Aryaman Sethi

Parmeet Sehi is an Indian film director and TV actor.

Parmeet was educated in Mumbai. He passed out of Sydenham College of Commerce and Economics. He married a film and television actress Archana Puran Singh, on 30 June 1992. They have two sons Aaryamann and Ayushmaan. He is the cousin of TV actress Niki Aneja Walia. Archana and Parmeet had a live-in relationship before they married.

Sethi received his first claim to fame with Yash Chopra film "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge" (1995), in which he played the character of Kuljeet, an arrogant alpha male betrothed to the heroine Simran (Kajol) and competes with Raj the protagonist played by Shahrukh Khan.

He later starred in Diljale (1996) as Captain Ranveer with Ajay Devgn and Sonali Bendre. He also starred in the critically acclaimed Punjabi movie Des Hoyaa Pardes.

He shot to fame in his TV career when he was chosen for the main lead in the Dubai-based TV serial called Dastaan in the mid 90s. The role in it was highly appreciated amongst the masses. In 2004 he starred in Israeli movie Turn Left at the End of the World as a father of repatriants family from India.

In 2010, he tried his first directorial venture, Yash Raj's Badmaash Company starring Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Meiyang Chang, which was a success at box office earning 350 millions indian rupees whereas its budget was 130 millions indian rupees. Parmeet wrote its entire script with dialogues in just six days.


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