Kenny Desai is a character actor in Bollywood, who has acted in both television and cinema. The actor made his debut in art cinema and has acted in films with Naseeruddin Shah, Ravi Baswani, Satish Shah and others. His first film was ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’, which released in 1983. The film was appreciated a lot for its superb satirical depiction, and the actor got noticed, even though he had been casted in a small role. He played the role of Keni Desai in this movie.
In the year 1993, he appeared in Zee TV series, ‘Tara’, which had a long run of five years. In the year 1999, he again appeared in a Zee TV production serial called 'Gubbare', which was directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. This serial too had versatile actors from the big screen, such as Tinnu Anand, Annu Kapoor, Kirron Kher, Rajat Kapoor, and Ratna Pathak, among others. In the year 2003, he acted in Vijay Kumar's debut directorial film, ‘Kahan Ho Tum’, which was almost like a documentary.
The film got a mixed response and so did Kenny Desai’s character as Mukhiya in the movie. In 2004, director Tigmanshu Dhulia had casted Kenny Desai in a movie called 'Charas: A Joint Effort', which had Irrfan Khan, Uday Chopra, Hrishitaa Bhatt and others in stellar roles. In the year 2005, he acted in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s movie ‘Black’, which had Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukerji in lead roles.
In this movie, he played the role of Dr. Mehta. In 2005, he was casted in the movie, 'U, Bomsi n Me', as boss, which was a carbon copy of ‘Dil Chahta Hai’. His two other prominent movies include Jaideep Sen’s ‘Krazzy 4’, and Ram Gopal Varma's 'Phoonk', both movies having released in 2008. In the year 2014, he returned back to the small screen.
He enacted the role of BJP leader Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee in Shyam Benegal's mini-TV series, ' Samvidhaan: The Making of the Constitution of India'. Kenny Desai is a prolific actor having contributed to meaningful cinema right from the beginning of his career.
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Kenneth Desai is an Indian actor who acts predominantly in Hindi movies. He did his schooling at Christ Church High School, Mumbai and graduated from St. Xavier’s College. He currently resides at Mumbai and has also attended the National School of Drama at New Delhi. Kenneth has appeared and acted in about thirty-four movies. He made his debut in the year 1983 with the film titled Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro directed by Kundan Shah.
Some of his well-known roles include Dr. Mehta from Black, Mr. Sharma (Varun Dhawan’s father) in the film Humpty Sharma ki Dulhania, Ramesh Kapoor in Dil Jo Na Keh Saka, etc. Kenneth Desai has also been a part of TV Series such as Oye Jassie starring Tara Sutaria, Hip Hurray, Gubbare, Yeh Moh Ke Dhaage, etc.
A few of his other movies are Raag Desh directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, Barfi by Anurag Basu starring Ranbir Kapoor, Kahan Ho Tum directed by Vijay Kumar, Dashavatr by Bhavik Thakore, Drishti, Phoonk by Ram Gopal Varma, Kevi Rite Jaish by Abhishek Jain, Photograph directed by Ritesh Batra, etc. His upcoming film with Jimmy Sharma and Saurabh Roy is Love Alert which is being made by the director, Sanjeev Nanda Mehta.