Jitendra Kumar

While studying civil engineering at IIT Kharagpur, Kumar started liking acting. Jitendra Kumar has done many stage plays as the Governor of the Hindi Technology Dramatics Society at the IIT where he met Biswapati Sarkar, Executive Creative Director and Writer at The Viral Fever^[3] who eventually invited him to join TVF in 2012.^[4]

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 includes Tech Conversations With Dad, A Day With, TVF Bachelors, Kota Factory and many others.^[5][6][7]

Apart from TVF videos on YouTube, Kumar has played a few significant roles in comedy sketches, movies and web series. He is predominantly famous for his character Jitendra Maheshwari, a frustrated corporate employee from TVF Pitchers, Gittu, a confused bridegroom from Permanent Roommates and Jeetu Bhaiya from Kota Factory. He made his film debut with Shuruat Ka Interval in 2014.^[8]

In 2020, he was seen as Aman Tripathi in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan opposite Ayushmann Khurrana^[9][10] and then he played Billu in Chaman Bahaar.^[11][12]

Kumar's most notable role came with the series Panchayat, where he portrayed Abhishek Tripathi, a young urban secretary of a Panchayat office in the village Phulera, Uttar Pradesh.^[13][14] The series has been expanded to four seasons and received positive responses.^[15] Tanisha Bagchi of The Quint noted, "It’s refreshing to see Jitendra Kumar on screen every time. Kumar portrays Abhishek’s frustration with such ease that we can’t help but feel for this young guy who had to leave a bustling metro and make a desolate and gloomy panchayat office his home."^[16] The series earned him Filmfare OTT Awards for Best Actor – Comedy Series and Best Actor Critics – Comedy Series.^[17][18]

Key

†	Denotes film or TV productions that have not yet been released

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2014	Shuruaat Ka Interval	Laxman
2019	Gone Kesh	Srijoy Roy		[19]
2020	Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan	Aman Tripathi		[20][21]
	Chaman Bahaar	Prem "Billu" Kumar Yadav		[22]
2022	Jaadugar	Meenu Narang		[23][24]
2023	Dry Day	Gannu		[25]
2024	Lantrani	Babu Kamar		[26]
2025	Bhagwat: Chapter One – Raakshas	Sameer / Rajkumar / Suraj	ZEE5 film	[27]
TBA	Mirzapur †	TBA		[28]

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2014	Permanent Roommates	Prateek		[29]
2015	TVF Pitchers	Jitendra "Jeetu" Maheshwari		[30]
2017	TVF Bachelors	Jeetu	Season 2	[31]
	Bisht, Please!	Girish Goyal
	F.A.T.H.E.R.S.	Jeetu
2018	Mr. & Mrs.	Viren	Season 1
2019	ImMature	Drama Teacher		[32]
	TVF Tripling	Himself	Season 2
	Humorously Yours	RJ Mastikhor Mishra		[33]
	Cheesecake	Neel		[34]
2019–2024	Kota Factory	Jeetu Bhaiya		[35]
2020–present	Panchayat	Abhishek Tripathi		[36]
2025	Bada Naam Karenge	Santosh "Sunny" Khandelwal	Special appearance	[37]

Year	Title	Singer	Ref.
2024	Tu Hi Tu	Mohammad Faiz