Jitendra Kumar

Jitendra Kumar is an Indian actor. He is better known for his work in web series and comedy sketches of The Viral Fever[1] where he portrayed characters such as Jeetu, Munna Jazbaati, Gittu[2] and Arjun Kejriwal,[3] (a parody version of Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politician & Delhi Chief Minister). He is also known for his role of Jeetu Bhaiya in Kota Factory, Aman Tripathi in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan and Abhishek Tripathi in Amazon Prime's Panchayat.[4]

Jitendra Kumar
Kumar at an event for Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan in February 2020
Born (1990-09-01) 1 September 1990
Khairthal, Alwar, Rajasthan, India
NationalityIndian
EducationCivil Engineer
IIT Kharagpur
Works

Acting career

Kumar has done many stage plays as the Governor of the Hindi Technology Dramatics Society at IIT KGP where he met Biswapati Sarkar who eventually invited him to join TVF in 2012.[5]

Kumar starred in 'Munna Jazbaati: The Q-tiya intern' in 2013 which instantly went viral and crossed 3 million views. Since then, he has portrayed several characters in TVF videos which include 'Tech Conversations With Dad', 'A Day With' series, TVF Bachelor's series which crossed a million views, Kota Factory and many others.

Apart from TVF videos on YouTube, Kumar has played a few significant roles in comedy sketches, movies and web series.[6] He is predominantly famous for his character 'Jitendra Maheshwari', a frustrated corporate employee in the web series TVF Pitchers, 'Gittu', a confused bridegroom in Permanent Roommates web series and 'Jeetu Bhaiya' from Kota Factory. He has also been a part in the movie Shuruat Ka Interval.[7]

He recently starred as the lead in the web-series Panchayat on Amazon Prime. He plays, Abhishek Tripathi, the urban young secretary of a Panchayat office in the rural town of Phulera, Uttar Pradesh. The series revolves around his daily struggles adapting to village life and his new work as he tries to get away from all this by attempting the Common Admission Test to the Indian Institutes of Management. The series, produced by TVF, has been widely praised by viewers and critics alike.

He recently played the lead in Chaman Bahar. He plays Billu, a young small town paan-shop owner who falls in love with a pretty school girl who lives in a house opposite his shop. His shop becomes a hub of all the young boys of the locality to assemble there just to get a glimpse of the girl. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

Filmography
Jeetu with Ayushmann Khurrana and Neena Gupta promoting Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan

Films
Denotes films that have not yet been released
YearTitleCharacterRef
2014 Shuruaat Ka IntervalLaxman
2019 Gone Kesh Srijoy Roy
2020 Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan Aman Tripathi [15][16]
Chaman Bahaar Billu

Web series
YearTitleCharacterRefEpisode
2014 Permanent RoommatesPrateek (Gittu) 4
2015 TVF PitchersJitendra Maheshwari (Jeetu)[17] All
2017 TVF Bachelors Season 2 Jeetu [18] All
Bisht, Please! Girish Goyal 6
F.A.T.H.E.R.S. Jeetu 4
2018 Mr. & Mrs. Season 1 Viren 6
2019 ImMature Drama Teacher 2
TVF Tripling Actor 1 & 5
Kota Factory Jeetu Bhaiya [19] All
Humorously Yours RJ Mastikhor Mishra 2
Cheesecake Neel [20] All
2020 Panchayat Abhishek Tripathi [21] All

References
  1. Ram, Sharmila Ganesan (16 February 2014). "Age of parody". Times of India. TNN. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  2. Permanent Roommates (TV Series 2014– ), retrieved 15 June 2018
  3. "Meet Jitendra Kumar, the actor who faced off with Kejriwal, dressed as Kejriwal". Hindustan Times. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
  4. "Panchayat Web Series movie review Trailer Release Date Cast Episodes – Amazon Prime". Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  5. "IIT Is Not The End Of The World: Jitendra Kumar". BW Education. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  6. Kumar, Jitendra. "Jitendra Kumar". IMDb. Internet Movie Database.
  7. "12 Things To Know About Jitendra Kumar : The Prince of TVF (The Viral Fever) | Tomatoheart". Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  8. Kumar, Jitendra. "Jeetu". IMDb. Internet Movie Database.
  9. "Jitendra Kumar about Ayushmann and homosexuality". Retrieved 21 February 2020.
  10. "Jitendra Kumar says he takes YouTube comments as reality checks". Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  11. "About Jitendra Kumar". Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  12. "Jitendra Kumar about his show Cheesecake and more". Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  13. "Meet Jitendra Kumar, the actor who faced off with Kejriwal, dressed as him". Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  14. "'Loved seeing myself on the big screen': How TVF's 'Jeetu' went from IIT to web series to films". Retrieved 4 May 2019.
  15. "Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan pushed to March 13 next year; film to clash with Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl". Times Now News. 10 September 2019. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  16. "Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan makers looking for the right man to cast as Ayushmann Khurrana's love interest". Hindustan Times. 7 June 2019.
  17. TVF Pitchers (TV Series 2015), retrieved 15 June 2018
  18. TVF Bachelors, Jasmeet Singh Bhatia, Shivankit Singh Parihar, Gopal Dutt, retrieved 15 June 2018CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. Kota Factory Review, retrieved 29 November 2018
  20. Cheesecake Review, retrieved 29 November 2019
  21. Panchayat Review, retrieved 3 April 2020


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