Raj Singh Chaudhary

Chaudhary was born in Darjeeling, India. After pursuing a career in modelling and earning his degree in software engineering from BMS College of Engineering, he opened his own software company in Bangalore^{[citation needed]}. When Chaudhary was defrauded by his business partners, he took an opportunity to move to Mumbai to pursue a new career in acting. Chaudhary was inspired to write his own script after seeing the film Satya with its script written by Anurag Kashyap. Drawing on experiences from his college days, he worked on his script which focused on the practice of ragging, the physical and mental abuse of students in educational institutions. After the film in which he was supposed to appear fell through, Chaudhary took his script to director Kashyap who became his mentor.^[4] Kashyap wrote a new screenplay based on Chaudhary's original script for what would eventually become the film Gulaal. Chaudhary played the lead character and earned praise.^[5] In addition to his work on Gulaal, Chaudhary also assisted on the set of Black Friday while playing a primary character and wrote the short story on which No Smoking is based. He next appeared in Sushil Rajpal's film Antardwand which won the 2007 National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues and was released in 2010;