Sahil Khattar is a popular Indian YouTuber, television host, and actor. He is best known for posting funny videos on his YouTube channel “Being Indian.”
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Sahil Khattar was born on Thursday, 21 March 1991 (age 30 years; as of 2021) in Chandigarh, India. His zodiac sign is Aries. He attended Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector-16, Chandigarh for primary and secondary education. Later he got himself enrolled at the D.A.V. College Chandigarh to earn a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.
Sahil Khattar’s childhood picture
Sahil Khattar’s school indentity card
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 7″
Weight (approx.): 70 Kg
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Bald
Family
Parents & Siblings
Sahil Khattar is born in a Punjabi family in Chandigarh, India. His father is a businessman and his mother is a homemaker.
Sahil Khattar with his father
Sahil Khattar with his mother
Career
Radio
Sahil Khattar, after completing his formal education, started working as a radio jockey. He hosted a show called “Love Guru” for Radio Mirchi, a local radio station of Chandigarh.
TV Host
Sahil Khattar has hosted a series of reality television shows. To being with he hosted the sixth season of the Indian dance reality show “Dance India Dance.” The show was judged by Mudassar Khan, Marzi Pestonji, and Mini Pradhan, and was co-hosted by Sahil Khattar and Amruta Khanvilkar. Later, he also hosted some other reality shows including India’s Raw Star and India’s Got Talent.
Apart from reality shows, Sahil Khattar has also been a host for many sports telecasts. He hosted the sports events like the Russia World Cup 2018 on Sony Ten 3, the Pro wrestling League, and the live cricket show like the India tour of England on Sony Liv.
Sahil Khattar as the host for ‘Russia World Cup 2018’
Acting
Film
Sahil Khattar made his acting debut in 2021 with Sarthak Dasgupta and Alok Batra directed crime thriller film ‘200 Halla Ho.’ The film showcases the story of a real-life incident that happened in 2004 in which 200 Dalit women united and took legal action against Akku Yadav, a gangster, robber, serial rapist, and killer. Sahil Khattar played a crucial character named Bali Choudhary in the film and received huge appreciation for it. The film was digitally released on 20 August 2021.
In the same year, Sahil Khattar also featured in the Hindi-language sports film ’83.’ The film was first announced in September 2017 by Reliance Entertainment and Vibri Media. The companies hosted an event to announce the film with the team that had won the 1983 World Cup before shooting. The shooting of the film began on 5 June 2019 in England and the film was announced to be released on 24 December 2021. Sahil Khattar played the character of Syed Kirmani, a former Indian cricketer who was part of the 1983 World Cup-winning Indian team. The role of Kirmani was offered to Sahil because of his resemblance to him. Sahil during an interview revealed that he got the role because of his looks. He said,
The good part was I never auditioned for the role. It was given to me after looking at my face. I look like a twin brother of Syed Kirmani. So when the film came to me, I was actually in a good state of mind where I could recognize the potential of this film.”
Syed Kirmani (left) and Sahil Khattar (right)
The lead cast of the film included Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Pankaj Tripathi, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Jiiva, Saqib Saleem, Jatin Sarna, Chirag Patil, Dinker Sharma, Nishant Dahiya, Harrdy Sandhu, Sahil Khattar, Ammy Virk, Adinath Kothare, Dhairya Karwa, and R Badree.
Television
In 2011, he ventured to move out of Chandigarh and start in order to explore the entertainment field in Mumbai. When he told his parents about the same, his mother tried her best to keep him in their city and his father insisted him to join their family business. To pursue his dream of becoming the entertainment king, he lied to his family by telling them that he is going for a reality show and will be back in just a month. Sahil Khattar made his television debut in 2011 with the comedy dating show “Date Trap” aired on UTV Bindass. He acted in multiple episodes of the show. He got his next break-in StarPlus’ comedy reality show “Comedy Ka Maha Muqabala.”
YouTube
Sahil Khattar started his YouTube journey in 2orose to fame after he started appearing in comedy videos for the YouTube channel “Being Indian.”
Talking about his YouTube channel, he said,
It gave me a second lifeline to my career. There was a time in between when I had no work at hand. Things changed after ‘Being Indian’ came into my life, and I have never looked back since then and I never intend to as well. We started it hoping this would work and it did. We created that market when YouTube didn’t even exist.”
Awards
2016: India’s Top 10 Super Stars
Favourites
Actress: Deepika Padukone
Facts/Trivia
Sahil Khattar is often spotted drinking alcohol at social events.
Sahil Khattar started his acting career by performing in theatre dramas.