Taaruk Raina
Indian actor and musician
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Taaruk Raina is an Indian actor, singer, songwriter and composer.[1] He is known for his portrayal of Anmol Malhotra in Mismatched.
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| Years active | 2015–present |
| Known for | Mismatched |
Early life
Raina has been singing since he was six years old. He grew up listening to a lot of rock music, rap, heavy metal, and ghazals, and used to sing in his school choir as well.[2] Lacking technical knowledge about music, he began learning via YouTube. After some years, he started performing gigs at bars and weddings.[3][4]
Career
In 2015, Taaruk began working as Aditya Chopra's assistant at Yash Raj Films for Befikre.[5]
He then performed in theatre plays, notably as the lead character in an Indian adaptation of Disney’s Aladdin,[6] where he had to act in front of a live audience and sing iconic numbers.[2]
In 2018, he made his film debut in High Jack as Parth. The following year, in 2019, he appeared in ZEE5's Dhumrapaan and Kaand.[7]
In February 2020, he starred in MX Player's relationship-drama Pawan & Pooja as Pawan opposite Natasha Bharadwaj.[8][9] In June 2020, he also featured in the short film Purple.[10] Since November 2020, he has been portraying Anmol Malhotra in the Netflix teenage romantic drama Mismatched, where he acted as well as composed two songs for the show.[11] He was next seen in Sony Music India's song "Sukoon", featuring himself opposite Aisha Ahmed.[12]
In 2021, he appeared in the Netflix mini-series Aryan & Meera as Aryan opposite Zayn Marie Khan.[13]
In 2022, he featured in two web shows, ZEE5's The Broken News, and Amazon Prime Video's Jugaadistan.[14] In the same year, he also portrayed Rishi Kapoor's son Vinayak Sharma in Sharmaji Namkeen.[15][16]
In January 2023, Raina released his first independent single, "Narazi".[17] In May 2023, he was a part of Audible's podcast series called Desi Down Under,[18] along with Adarsh Gourav and Prajakta Koli, directed by Mantra,[19] where the story is set in Sydney about three 20-year-olds from Mangalore who go to Australia to learn surf-lifesaving skills at Coogee Beach.[20]
In March 2025, he was seen playing advocate Kantilal Sahni in Ram Madhvani's historical drama The Waking of a Nation, a story about the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, on SonyLiv.[21]
He will next be seen in Danish Renzu's musical drama Songs of Paradise.[22]
Filmography
Films
Web series
| Year | Title | Role | Ref. |
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| 2020 | Pawan & Pooja | Pawan Srivastav | [28] |
| 2020–present | Mismatched | Anmol Malhotra | [29] |
| 2021 | Aryan & Meera | Aryan Khanna | [30] |
| 2022 | The Broken News | Anuj Saxena | [31] |
| Jugaadistan | Lucky Kohli | [14] | |
| 2025 | The Waking of a Nation | Kantilal Sahni | [32][33] |
| Rangeen | Sunny | [34] |
Dubbing
| Year | Title | Role | Language | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Desi Down Under | Rahul | English | [35] |
Music videos
| Year | Title | Singer | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | "Raazdaariyan" | Sagar Bhatia | [36] |
Discography
| Year | Title | Film/Series | Co-singer | Music | Lyrics | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | "Happy Ending Song" (Version 1) | High Jack | Sumedha Karmahe | Rajat Tiwari | Akarsh Khurana | [37] |
| "Happy Ending Song" (Version 2) | Manasi Mulherkar | |||||
| 2020 | "Sukoon" | Single | N/a | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania, Bruno Gonçalves Mota | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | [12] |
| "Main Chala" | Mismatched (season 1) | Chaitanya Sharma alias SlowCheeta | Himself | Shwetang Shankar | [38] | |
| 2022 | "Kho Gaye" | Mismatched (season 2) | N/a | Himself | [39] | |
| 2023 | "Narazi" | Single | N/a | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | [40] | |
| "Kaise Banu" | N/a | [41] | ||||
| "Kalleyan" | Akasa Singh | Himself, Akasa Singh | [42] | |||
| 2024 | "Lost and Found" | N/a | Himself, Charan Singh Pathania | [43] | ||
| "Majboor" | N/a | Himself | [44] | |||
