Aman Verma (actor)

This article is about the T.V. presenter. For the footballer, see Aman Verma (footballer).

Aman Verma
Verma in 2019
Born	(1971-10-11) 11 October 1971 (age 53) Bombay (present–day Mumbai), Maharashtra, India
Occupations	Actor Television presenter
Years active	1987–present
Known for	Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai SuperCops Vs Super Villains Bigg Boss 9

Aman Yatan Verma^[1] (born 11 October 1971) is an Indian television anchor and actor. Verma is best known for role in Ekta Kapoor's soap opera Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi as Anupam Kapadia and for hosting the game show Khullja Sim Sim both on Star Plus from 2001 to 2004. His other hosting duties were with Mini Mathur in the first season of Indian Idol on Sony TV and Zee TV's Zee Cinestars. He has also acted in Bollywood movies. Verma was also seen in Life OK's show Hum Ne Li Hai- Shapath as ACP Diler Kumar. He also participated in the ninth season of Indian reality series Bigg Boss.

Career

Verma made his acting debut in the TV serial Pachpan Khambe Laal Deewarein with Mita Vashisht in 1993. He also played the character of Vrishaketu, son of Karna, in Mahabharat Katha. Then he started his film career with, Sangharsh (1999), portraying a supporting role. He portrayed the role of Anupam Kapadia for four years in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi.^[2] In 2002, Verma portrayed the lead role of SP Aditya Pratap Singh in Kehta Hai Dil, for which he won the Indian Telly Award for Best Actor in a Lead Role - Male in 2003.

In 2003, Verma starred in the film Pran Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye as the solo lead opposite Rinke Khanna and in the film Koi Hai. In both films, he portrayed solo leads. Later that year, he portrayed a supporting role in Baghban (2003), which starred Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini in lead roles. Verma anchored the game show, Khullja Sim Sim on Star Plus from 2001 to 2004, until he was replaced by TV actor, Hussain Kuwajerwala, who was his co-star in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. The two also starred together in another serial Kumkum  – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan, which aired on Star Plus.

Verma has made special appearances in films through his career as an anchor. He also portrayed a comedy role of Zubin in Jaan-E-Mann (2006). In that same year, Verma portrayed his first lead role in a TV serial on Viraasat, portraying a negative role.

He was in a TV serial Teen Bahuraniyaan playing the role of a man called Sumit Desai who was in a coma for the past few years whose children died but did not know it. He was also part of the first season of a reality show on Sony TV Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao, which is inspired from the British reality show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! He played a lead role as Advocate Kunal Mehra in Sony TV's Bayttaab Dil Kee Tamanna Hai. In 2012, he acted in Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai. In 2015, he participated in Colors TV's Bigg Boss 9 as a contestant and got evicted after six weeks.^[3][4][5][6]

He is playing the character of an advocate in Director Shailendra Pandey's upcoming film JD.

Controversies

Verma was the target of a casting couch sting operation which was aired on India TV in March 2003. He was seen begging Suhaib Ilyasi to remove his footage from the sting operation.^[7][8] Verma sued India TV CEO Rajat Sharma, programme manager Suhaib Ilyasi and journalist Ruchi, who was involved in the operation, alleging that the channel wanted to "blackmail and extort money" from him.^[9]

Filmography

Films

Year	Movie	Role	Notes:
1999	Sangharsh	Amit
2002	Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani	TV Host
2003	Koi Hai	Raj Malhotra
	Pran Jaye Par Shaan Na Jaye	Aman Joshi
	Andaaz	Karan Singhania
	Baghban	Ajay Malhotra
2004	Tum - A Dangerous Obsession	Yusuf Malik
2005	Home Delivery: Aapko... Ghar Tak	Hitesh
	Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!	Magic Show Presenter
	Dosti: Friends Forever	Mr. Saluja (Anjali's husband)
2006	Kachchi Sadak	Raghav Mehta
	Unns: Love... Forever	Advocate Sameer Shah
	Baabul	Shobhna's Brother
	Janani	Tarun Awasthi
	Jaan-E-Mann	Zubin
2008	Superstar
	Lakh Pardesi Hoiye	Garry	Punjabi film
	EMI	Prema's husband
	Desh Drohi	Sanjay Narayan Srivastav
2010	Ek Second... Jo Zindagi Badal De?
	Mar Jawan Gur Khake	Karan	Punjabi film
	Tees Maar Khan	Chaterjee
2011	Gandhi to Hitler	Balbir Singh
	U R My Jaan	Rahul
2012	Daal Mein Kuch Kaala Hai
2014	Dee Saturday Night
2017	JD	Advocate Pradhan
2019	Chicken Curry Law
2023	Lakeerein	Ravi Verma
2024	The U P Files

Television

Year	Serial	Role	Notes	Refs
	Karawas
1993	Pachpan Khambe Lal Deewarein	Neel
1994–1998	Shanti	Sanjay
1997	Mahabharat Katha	Vrishaketu
1997-1998	Zanjeerein
1998–1999	Rishtey		episodic Role
			episode 22
		Rohit	episode 55
1998	Aurat	Karan Pratapsingh	Supporting role
1998–2006	C.I.D.	Anuj	episodes 15–16
		Akash	episodes 59–60
		Johnny	episode 405
1998	Saturday Suspense	Vicky	episode 88
1999–2000	X Zone		episodes 82–83
1999-2003	Aangan
2000	Ghar Ek Mandir	Prem
	C.A.T.S.		episodic role
	Thriller At 10	A.C.P. Roop Singh Rathore	episodes 56–60
		Aman Verma	episodes 116–120
2001	Sambandh	Mr. Kumar
2001–2003	Gharana	Prakash Kothari
2001–2004	Dushman	Prem Verma
	Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi	Anupam Kapadia
	Do Lafzon Ki Kahani	Raj
	Khullja Sim Sim	Host
2002–2003	Kalash	Ram
	Kehta Hai Dil	SP Adityapratap Singh
2003	Piya Ka Ghar	Raj
2003–2004	Arzoo Hai Tu
2004	Jadoo	Host
	Devi	Vasudev Kumar
	India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj	Host
2004–2005	Indian Idol	Host
	Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan	Abhay Chauhan
2005	Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin	Advocate Thakral
	Dial One Aur Jeeto	Host
	Ek Ladki Anjaani Si	Suryapratap Yadav
2006	Piya Kay Ghar Jana Hai
2006–2007	Viraasat	Rishabh Lamba
2007–2008	Amber Dhara	Shanu
	Say Shava Shava	Contestant
	Teen Bahuraaniyaan	Sumeet Desai
	Sujata	Viresh Shah
	Saas v/s Bahu	Guest
2009	Namak Haraam	Rohit Malhotra
	Ladies Special	Host of Lottery contest
	Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao	Contestant
2009–2010	Bayttaab Dil Kee Tamanna Hai	Advocate Kunal Mehra
2010	Keshav Pandit	Aditya
	Shorr	Sarang
2010–2011	Na Aana Is Des Laado	Bhanupratap Singh		[10]
2011–2012	Chotti Bahu - Sawar Ke Rang Rachi	Asur / Vishwanath		[11]
	Ramleela - Ajay Devgn Ke Saath	Ravan
2013	Welcome – Baazi Mehmaan Nawazi Ki	Contestant
	Parvarrish - Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi	Advocate Raghav Jaitley (RJ)		[12]
2013–2015	SuperCops vs Supervillains	ACP Diler Kumar
2015–2017	Savdhaan India	Inspector Rajendra Mishra	episode 1065
		Mahesh	episode 2162
2015	Hazir Jawab Birbal	Mohanlal	episode 40
	Bigg Boss 9	Contestant	Evicted Day 42
2016	Amma	Shekeran Shetty
2017	Khaki Ek Vachan	Host
2017–2018	Bahurani	Host
2021	Mauka-E-Vardaat: Operation Vijay	Inspector Abhay Talwar
2022–2023	Dheere Dheere Se	Bhanu Shastri		[13]
2024	Mishri	Hari Sharma (Episode 1)	Episodic Role

Web series

Year	Show	Role	Notes	Refs
2019	Panchali	Eldest Brother
2019–present	Julie	Inspector
2023	Scam 2003	Police Commissioner Jagdish Puri

Awards

Year	Award	Category	TV Show	Result
2003	Indian Telly Awards	Best Actor in a Lead Role - Male	Kehta Hai Dil	Won
2015	Indian Television Academy Awards	Best Actor in a Negative Role	Viraasat	Won

References

1. "Aman Yatan Verma goes down the memory lane". The Times of India. 14 September 2017. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 29 November 2024.
2. "Aman Verma: Kyunki...Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi was turning point for me - NDTV Movies". NDTVMovies.com.
3. "Aman Verma in Bigg Boss 9 Double Trouble". The Times of India. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
4. "Bigg Boss 9 Contestant No 5: Aman Verma, the bad son of Amitabh Bachchan in Baghban". 11 October 2015. Retrieved 11 October 2015.
5. "Aman Verma: 'Bigg Boss 9' will be my major comeback". Retrieved 10 October 2015.
6. "Bigg Boss 9: Aman Verma evicted, says no male contestant strong enough to win the show". 23 November 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
7. "Archive". Expressindia.com. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
8. "Aman Verma verifies in the sting case". The Times of India.
9. "Aman Verma verifies in the sting case". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2011.
10. "Bhanupratap(Aman Verma) falls in just with Jhanvi (Vaishnavi Dhanraj) in Na Aana Is Des Laado. A dream sequence is shot on Aman and Vaishnavi on the song Aa Zara from Murder 2". The Times of India.
11. "BAD MAN! Aman Verma to play negative in Chhoti Bahu". Hindustan Times. 24 December 2011.
12. "Aman Verma enters 'Parvarish – Kuch Khati Kuch Meethi'". dailybhaskar. 13 February 2013.
13. "The cast of the upcoming show 'Aashao Ka Savera…Dheere Dheere Se' visits Ujjain city for their shoot - Times of India". The Times of India.

External links

• Aman Verma at IMDb