Sushant Singh Rajput is an Indian film and television actor. He started his career with television serials, including an award-winning performance in the soap opera Pavitra Rishta (2009'2011) and as a participant in two dance reality shows. He then entered films with a role as one of the three male leads in the drama Kai Po Che! (2013), for which he received critical acclaim as well as three Best ...Sushant Singh Rajput is an Indian film and television actor. He started his career with television serials, including an award-winning performance in the soap opera Pavitra Rishta (2009'2011) and as a participant in two dance reality shows. He then entered films with a role as one of the three male leads in the drama Kai Po Che! (2013), for which he received critical acclaim as well as three Best Male Debut awards. His other notable films since then have been as the hero of the romantic comedy Shuddh Desi Romance (2013) and as the titular detective in the thriller Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015), both of which were produced by Yash Raj Films. He had his biggest commercial success with the role of a Pakistani Muslim in the fantasy drama PK (2014), which rank among the highest-grossing Indian films.
Sushant was born in Patna, Bihar, where his father worked as a government official. His ancestral village is Maldiha in Purnia district of Bihar. His family moved to New Delhi in the early 2000s and have been based there since then. Sushant has four elder sisters with him being the youngest in the family. One sister lives in the US, another in Chandigarh, and the other two live in Delhi.[8] One sister, Mitu Singh, is a state-level cricketer. While growing up in Patna, Sushant was very close to his mother, and had a more formal relationship with his father. Her death in 2002 left Sushant devastated. This happened just after Sushant sat his 12th standard exams and it was in the same year that the family moved from Patna to Delhi.
Sushant attended St. Karen's High School in Patna and Kulachi Hansraj Model School in New Delhi. As a student, he was academically sound and was a national Olympiad winner in Physics. In his 12th standard board exams, he secured AIR-7 in AIEEE (All-India Rank-7 in the All India Engineering Entrance Exam). In all, he cleared as many as eleven engineering entrance exams, including for ISM Dhanbad. He then enrolled for studying Mechanical Engineering at the Delhi College of Engineering (later renamed Delhi Technological University, known by the acronym DCE/DTU). However, he only completed three years in engineering college before dropping out to pursue an acting career.