Vikrant Massey

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Vikrant Massey belonged to a middle class background, born and brought up in Mumbai and is a Roman Catholic . His paternal side being Christians they follow Christianity.

He is a trained dancer and has forayed onto the stage with his dance and theatre performances from the age of 7. Much inclined to the entertainment industry and with the support and guidance from his mentors, teachers and his school principal, Vikrant took up performing arts as his career choice since a young age.

He is also trained ballet dancer and has worked under Shiamak Davar. Beginning of his career he has acted as a choreographer for the reality Dance show Dhoom Machaao Dhoom.

During his free time, he would enjoy travelling, playing cricket and video games. 

Vikrant Massey started his career with the television and made his debut on the small screen with Kahaan Hoo Main in the year 2004.  He then went on to do many roles in series on the television such as Dharam Veer, Balika Vadhu, Baba Aiso Varr Dhoondo and Qubool Hai.

His role in Balika vadhu as Shyam Madan Singh won him a lot of praises for his matured role and his handsome looks with his co-star Vibha Anand which was a major success.

He later played the lead role as Murli , husband of Bharti in the film Baba Aiso Var Dhoondo on NDTV Imagine, directed and produced by Nikhil Sinha and Rakesh Paswan.

Vikrant also portrayed the role of Ayaan Ahmed Khan in the lead role in Zee TV’s Quobool Hai, a series after he replaced the actor Rishabh Sinha.

From the small screen he made his entry into the tinsel town of Bollywood and made his debut in Vikramaditya Motwane’s film Lootera in 2013 along with his co-stars Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha, followed by his role in Dil Dhadakne Do. 

His first film as protagonist was in the critically acclaimed film A Death in the Gunj in 2017, directed by Konkana Sen Sharma. The film in which his performance won lot of accolades and he earned his first Filmfare Award nomination in the category of Critics Best Actor.

The young handsome Vikrant will soon be seen on the big screen with none other than the beautiful diva Deepika Padukone in Meghna Gulzar’s film Chhapaak.

Vikrant has been a part of various television commercias as well such as Zatak Deo, Cadbury, Finolex Led, Nescafe, Khazana Jewels, Samsung Galaxy, Axis Bank Campaign with the South Actress Revathi to name a few and Idea 4G. A popular face on the small sreen, and also in web series that include the Television series, Mirzaour in which he plays the role of a small town goon, and  another web series,  Broken But Beautiful, the 11 episode produced by Ekta Kapoor and is currently trending on the AltBalaji app that focuses on his role as Veer opposite Harleen Sethi who portrays the role of Sameera and together they discover love and companionship.  This show received lot of positive reviews for his role.

His career was on high in 2017 with his role in the film A Death in the Gunj that earned him the best admiring reviews.

Vikrant has also done some short films , movies web series and he says the story matters and his role is what he looks for but doesn’t mind taking on any of the mediums as he believes digital space is opening up in a bigger way now with lot more audience at a rapid pace the new digital entertainment today.  Though he admits watching a film in the theatre has its own charm and that Bollywood will never die down and will always be the top favourite for his viewers.