Naveen Kasturia

Naveen Kasturia
Born	(1985-01-26) January 26, 1985 Otukpo, Benue State, Nigeria
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi
Occupation	Film actor, Assistant director
Known for	TVF Pitchers

Naveen Kasturia (born 26 January 1985) is an Indian actor known for his work in TVF drama series - Pitchers. He started his career working as an assistant director on the film Jashnn and then assisted Dibakar Banerjee on Love Sex Aur Dhokha and Shanghai. He also appeared as the lead actor in the critically acclaimed film Sulemani Keeda.

Early life

Naveen was born in Otukpo, a small town in Nigeria. Though his family moved back to India when he was a year old. He was brought up in a joint family in Delhi. He did his schooling from Birla Vidya Niketan and engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT) in Delhi. He directed a lot of skits/plays in his school and college days. After graduation, he joined an analytics firm called Inductis in Gurgaon in 2006, where he worked for two years before moving to Mumbai in 2008. In Mumbai, he worked with JP Morgan Chase for a very brief period of time before making a final switch to films.

Career

Naveen continued doing theatre after engineering. In 2007, Naveen and his college friends started a theatre company, Right Click Entertainment, and wrote and directed his first ticketed play Khel Khel Mein, which went housefull. He worked as an assistant director in Jashnn, produced by Vishesh Films.

Naveen got his first television commercial when he went to meet Dibakar Banerjee since he wanted to assist Dibakar Banerjee as an AD, and Banerjee asked him to work in his coke commercial. As of now, Naveen Kasturia has worked in many advertisements for various brands such as Vodafone, Mahindra, Tapzo app, Marathe Jewellers, True Value and so on. Later, he assisted Dibakar Banerjee in LSD and Shanghai, and Oscar-winning director Danis Tanović in an international film called Tigers.

In 2011, Amit Masurkar offered a movie to Kasturia, named Sulemani Keeda. Released in 2014, the movie proved to be a turning point in his career. Naveen did a few more sketches with The Viral Fever before Pitchers happened.

Films and Web series

Films

Year	Title	Worked as	Role	Notes
2009	Jashnn	Assistant director
2010	Love Sex Aur Dhokha	Assistant director
2012	Shanghai	Actor & Assistant director	Ranjan
2014	Tigers	Third Assistant Director
2014	Sulemani Keeda	Actor	Dulal
2016	Loveshhuda	Actor	Kunal
2018	Hope Aur Hum	Actor	Nitin
2018	Turtle	Actor
2018	Sone Bhi Do Yaaro	Actor	Naveen
2019	Waah Zindagi	Actor

Short Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Skin Deep	Sanjay
2014	Interior Cafe Night	Young Boy
2014	Stunt Boy
2015	Chhoti Khushi	Elder son	SonyLIV
2016	Pure-Veg	Arjun
2016	Half Ticket	Ayaan
2018	Half Ticket 2	Ayaan
2018	Maya	Raunak
2019	Malgook Bidro	Naveen	Zee5

Web Series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Chai Sutta Chronicles	Siddharth	TVF
2015	TVF Pitchers	Naveen Bansal	TVF
2015	Man's World	Bus passenger	YFilms
2017	Social Series	Prithvi	Viu
2017	Bose: Dead/Alive	Darbari Lal	ALTBalaji
2018	The Good Vibes	Lakshya Tripathi
2019	Fuh se Fantasy	Sushil	Voot
2019	Thinkistan	Amit	MX Player
2019	Happily Ever After	Roneet Bagchi	The Zoom Studios
2019	Parchhayee	Jimmy	ZEE5
2021	TVF Aspirants	Abhilash	TVF

External links

• Naveen Kasturia on IMDb