Tanay Chheda Biography

Tanay Hemant Chheda is an Indian child actor. He has worked in the critically acclaimed films Taare Zameen Par (2007) and Slumdog Millionaire (2008), for which he has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008.

Career

Tanay Chheda has worked in three films: Don - The Chase Begins Again in 2006, Taare Zameen Par in 2007, and Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. In Don, he played the role of Dipu, the son of Jasjit (played by Arjun Rampal). In Taare Zameen Par, he played Rajan Damodaran, a handicapped child who is a friend and classmate of the protagonist Ishaan (played by Darsheel Safary). In Slumdog Millionaire, Chheda played the role of Jamal Malik, in adolescence, for which he has won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and received a nomination for Best Ensemble at the Black Reel Awards of 2008.

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