From Ayushmann Khurrana, and Sushant Singh Rajput to Shah Rukh Khan, again and again, the outsiders have proved their performing chops and impressed the viewers. One other actor who doesn’t belong to any movie household, left his high-paying job to enter the leisure trade. 

The actor we’re speaking about is an IIT alumnus who left his job in a multinational firm to develop into an actor and is now ruling the OTT area. He’s none aside from Jitendra Kumar. 

Born in Khairthal, a small village in Rajasthan On September 1, 1990, Jitnedra Kumar had a fascination with imitating Shah Rukh Khan, Nana Patekar, and Amitabh Bachchan. After finishing his secondary schooling, his father despatched him to Kota to organize for the IIT entrance examination. Being an clever youngster, he cleared the paper and bought admission into IIT Kharagpur. 
Whereas finding out civil engineering at IIT Kharagpur, Jitendra Kumar began growing an curiosity in performing and later did a number of stage performs because the Governor of the Hindi Know-how Dramatics Society on the IIT the place he met Biswapati Sarkar, Government Artistic Director and Author at The Viral Fever. speaking about the identical he stated in an interview, “Whereas I used to be pursuing my B. Tech in civil engineering, I started actively collaborating within the faculty theatre scene. It was the primary time I encountered a correct stage, lights, script, and all the things else.” 

Later, after graduating in 2012, he joined TVF as an actor, nevertheless, issues weren’t working for him. He then took one of the vital troublesome calls of his life and determined to stop TVF to hitch a Japanese multinational development firm in Bengaluru. Nonetheless, issues took a U-turn when TVF launched Munna Jazbati, a comedy sketch the place Jitendra performs an over-emotional intern and, inside no time, the video went viral. Inside eight months of his becoming a member of, he left his high-paying job to develop into an actor and determined to go to Mumbai. 

Nonetheless, his struggles had simply began. To make ends meet, he began tutoring college students and making ready them for IIT exams at a training middle to make ends meet. He labored on performing assignments from Monday to Friday to assist pay his payments. He instructed in an interview, “I drew out all my IIT JEE notes and began finding out once more. Finally, I began instructing. So I used to show the scholars in teaching institutes on Sundays. It was a really completely different expertise for me.” 

Earlier than gaining widespread acclaim and fame with Kota Manufacturing facility during which he performed the function of the well-known IIT teaching school member Jeetu Bhaiya within the collection, he performed aspect roles in collection like TVF Pitchers, TVF Bachelors, Bisht, Please!, F.A.T.H.E.R.S, ImMature and extra. He made his debut in 2014 within the movie Shuruaat Ka Interval after which starred in numerous films like Gone Kesh, Shubh Mangal Zayada Saavdhan, Jaadugar, and his newest launch Dry Day. In 2020, he established himself because the OTT star together with his collection Panchayat. 

Now, the actor is likely one of the highest-paid OTT stars who reportedly prices Rs 4 lakh per collection. He’s now awaiting the discharge of his collection Panchayat’s upcoming season. The third season of the favored collection was scheduled to be launched on January 15, nevertheless, it has now been delayed however will likely be launched this yr.