Purab Kohli

Biography

Purab Raj Kohli is an actor, video jockey and a model. He is award winning director Shekhar Kapoor?s nephew. He?s married to an actress in theater, Yamini Namjoshi.

Purab has worked in television shows like Hip Hip Hurray, Chota Moo Badi Baat and Sangharsh. He then moved into video jockey-ing on Channel [V].

He has featured in several ads for brands like Colgate, Pizza Hut, Castrol and Compaq Presario.

Purab Kohli?s first movie was Bus Yun Hi (2003) with Nandita Das. He took on roles in movies like Supari (2003), Vastu Shastra (2004) and 13th Floor (2005).

In 2005, he played a homosexual man whose boyfriend is diagnosed with AIDS and turns into a social pariah in Onir?s My Brother Nikhil.

He worked with Mahesh Bhatt in Woh Lamhe (2006) and Awaarapan (2007).

His most recent movie Rock On (2008) was very popular among the crowds and he played the drummer KD who has put aside his love for drums to work in his father?s jewelry store.