Darsheel Safary

Darsheel Safary

Born: March 9, 1996
in Mumbai, India
Darsheel Safary (born March 9, 1997) is an Indian child movie actor primarily working on starring in Hindi Bollywood films. He is best known for his acclaimed portrayal of a dyslexic child in the 2007 film Taare Zameen Par (Like Stars on Earth), a drama film about a teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh (Aamir Khan) and a boy (Darsheel Safary) with learning disabilities share a special bond.

Darsheel was born on March 9, 1997 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. His father, Mitesh Safary is a jeweler and his mother is Sheetal Safary. He had no acting experience prior to Taare Zameen Par. Growing up in Mumbai, he enrolled into Shiamak Davar's dance academy. He had never expected to be a movie actor at such a young age. His parents wanted him to be a businessman executive or a jewelry designer. He has a younger sister and resides in his hometown in Mumbai.

In 2007, Safary made his first big acting debut in Taare Zameen Par, playing the film's protagonist Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi. Safary was discovered by script writer and creative director, Amol Gupte during fall 2006 when he was looking for a male lead for his film, Taare Zameen Par. After going through hundreds of auditions, Gupte found Safary at Shiamak Davar's dancing school, "Summer Funk". In choosing Safary, Gupte had a number of boys audition for a scene in which they would informally describe how they would "bunk" school after being given a few scenarios. He recalls, "It was a tough call. But Darsheel has the mischief in his eyes to be Ishaan. Everyone just naturally gravitated towards him." Taare Zameen par was filmed from fall 2006 until spring of 2007. Darsheel, at this time was only nine years old and only about 4 feet tall. The child artiste of the film, had to face a lot of opposition from his school when he was shortlisted for the film. The fact that he would have to miss school for such a long period of time did not go down well with the school authorities. However, Aamir Khan insisted that only Darsheel play the character, so he came up with a solution to fix the problem. He personally assured the school authorities that Darsheel's studies wouldn't be hampered with. Aamir arranged for personal tuition for Darsheel all through the academic year so that he wouldn't miss his exams. He also funded his studies as well as his educational expenses. Before starring, Darsheel was a part of Shiamak Davar's dance troupe. During one of the classes, he saw a poster that read, "Hunting for a naughty kid. If you're selected, you will get a chance to act with Aamir Khan." He thought that it would be great if he was able to act in the film. During the same class, Amole Gupte spotted him and asked him to go for an audition. Eventually, he got selected. Darsheel also got an Xbox 360 as a birthday gift from Aamir Khan on 9th March 2007, his tenth birthday. Following the film's release, he became the youngest nominee for Filmfare Award for the Best Actor. He couldn't make it because it was won by Shahrukh Khan for Chak de! India.

Movies for Darsheel Safary...

Title: First Act
Released: December 15, 2023
Type: TV
First Act chronicles the journey of child actors and their parents into the Hindi film and TV industry. Through interviews with older child actors, parents, casting directors and filmmakers, the series explores the ecosystem within which children must perform and the challenges they face to achieve the family dream.
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Hukus Bukus
Title: Hukus Bukus
Character: Arjun
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Contradiction in faiths of Father and Son in a Kashmiri Pandit House. Story of Krishna, Kashmir and Cricket from the valley of kashmir.
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Ho Ja Mukt
Title: Ho Ja Mukt
Released: January 21, 2023
Type: Movie
21-year old Vicky is diagnosed with mental health issues and starts having illusory images which he needs to break out of while his parents constantly fail to understand his situation.
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Kutch Express
Title: Kutch Express
Character: Avinash
Released: January 6, 2023
Type: Movie
Your life is perfect with your family and husband. But when this perfect life is just an illusion, where else do you seek solace?
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Title: Capital A, Small A
Character: Aadi
Released: November 17, 2022
Type: TV
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Quickie
Title: Quickie
Character: Amey
Released: January 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Quickie is a Bollywood comedy movie touted to be a teenage love story.
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Title: Butterflies
Released: July 31, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Comedy Nights Bachao
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Based on the format of roast comedy, the show features comic crusaders who take a jibe at celebrity guests testing their patience through slapstick humor and make unpleasant jokes about them.
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Title: Simply Baatein With Raveena
Character: Himself
Released: September 7, 2014
Type: TV
Simply Baatien With Raveena is an interactive talk/chat show produced by Urban Brew Studios and hosted by Raveena Tandon. The show started airing on 7 September 2014 on Sony Pal. Raveena interacts with celebrities to discuss topics relating to womanhood
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Midnight's Children
Title: Midnight's Children
Character: Young Saleem
Released: August 31, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name.
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Zokkomon
Title: Zokkomon
Character: Kunal / Zokkomon
Released: April 2, 2011
Type: Movie
An orphan is abused and abandoned, believed to be dead, and upon his return is first feared as a ghost, and then projected as a superhero.
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Bumm Bumm Bole
Title: Bumm Bumm Bole
Character: Pinu
Released: May 14, 2010
Type: Movie
Khogiram (Atul Kulkarni), his wife (Rituparna Sengupta) and their kids Pinu (Darsheel) and Rimzim (Zia) belong to a terrorist dominated region. Khogiram and Ritu have a hand-to-mouth income working for a tea plantation and can barely manage things. The kids are affected by this as well. They go to a respectable school as it is Khogiram's ambition to give them the educational opportunities he missed. But the financial crunch makes it difficult for kids to match the standards of the school. They don't have enough money for uniform or shoes. Things become worse when Pinu misplaces Rimzim's only pair of shoes in the vegetable shop! Rimzim can't go to school without her shoes. They work out a scheme where both of them share the same shoes. However, Pinu always gets into trouble at school waiting for Rimzim to give him the shoes. He comes to know of the Interschool Marathon where one of the prizes is a pair of shoes. Pinu plans to run for it and win the shoes for Rimzim.
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Title: 10 Ka Dum
Character: Himself
Released: June 6, 2008
Type: TV
Indian game show hosted by Bollywood actor Salman Khan.
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Like Stars on Earth
Title: Like Stars on Earth
Character: Ishaan Nandkishore Awasthi
Released: December 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.