Rajesh Tailang is a popular Indian actor. He is best known to international audiences for his role in Siddharth, for which Rajesh garnered a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Actor at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards. He has also written the dialogues for Siddharth and for Amal. Rajesh has appeared in various Hindi films, like ‘Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa’ (1998), ‘Dev’ (2004), ‘Mangal Pandey: The Rising’ (2005), ‘Siddharth’ (2013), ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’ (2015), ‘Phantom’ (2015), ‘Mukkabaaz’ (2018), ‘Commando 3’ (2019), and ‘Panga’ (2020). He also has directed many episodes of the Hindi TV series, ‘India’s Most Wanted’ (1999) aired on Zee TV. Rajesh has featured in two Hindi short films, ‘Mast Qalandar’ (2015) and ‘Zoya’ (2016). He has also acted in many popular Hindi web-series, like ‘Mirzapur’ (2018), ‘Selection Day’ (2018), ‘Delhi Crime’ (2019), and ‘Bandish Bandits’ (2020).
| Rajesh Tailang | |
|---|---|
| Bio/Wiki | |
| Profession(s) | Actor, Director, Poet, and Writer |
| Famous Role(s) | • Mahendra Saini in the Indo-Canadian film, ‘Siddharth’ (2013) |
| • Ramakant Pandit in the Amazon Prime web-series, ‘Mirzapur’ (2018) | |
| Physical Stats & More | |
| [1] Height | in centimeters- 183 cm |
| in meters- 1.83 m | |
| in feet & inches- 6’ | |
| Eye Colour | Black |
| Hair Colour | Black |
| Career | |
| Debut | TV, Actor: Dhai Akshar (1989), aired on Doordarshan |
| Film, Actor: Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa (1998) | |
| Personal Life | |
| Date of Birth | Year 1970 |
| Age (as in 2020) | 50 Years |
| Birthplace | Bikaner, Rajasthan |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Hometown | Bikaner, Rajasthan |
| School | Sadul Senior Higher Secondary School, Bikaner |
| College/University | Dungar College, Bikaner |
| Educational Qualification | BSc in Mathematics [2] |
| Hobbies | Writing Poetry, Doing Photography, Going to Forest Tours, and Listening to Music |
| Relationships & More | |
| Marital Status | Married |
| Family | |
| Wife/Spouse | Name Not Known |
| Children | Son- Aryaditya Tailang |
| Parents | Father- Shrikrishna Tailang (Owned a Printing Press) |
| Mother- Name Not Known | |
| Siblings | Brother- Late Sudhir Tailang (Indian Cartoonist; who died on 6 February 2016 due to brain cancer) |
| Favourite Things | |
| Actor(s) | Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, and Om Puri |
| Director | Kabir Khan |
| Novel(s) | Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach and The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho |
| Film(s) | Padosan (1968), Sholay (1975), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Schindler’s List (1993) and all films of Charlie Chaplin |
