Aekansh Vats

Aekansh Vats (born February 12, 1993) is an Indian actor. Born in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh and an alumnus of Delhi University's Kirori Mal College, he appeared in Dev D (2009) and television, Balika Vadhu (2010). He started doing theatre at an early age and started participating in stage plays at school. He also attended the National School Of Drama, Theatre in Education and Barry John's theatre course. Aekansh was also the part of the dramatics society "The Players" of Kirori Mal College, New Delhi. Early life: Aekansh was born in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh of parents Ravi Bala Sharma and M G Sharma. He has one older sister, Shubhi. The family moved to Delhi, when Aekansh was 2. Originating from artistic family background, Aekansh was exposed to music and arts since his childhood. His father discovered his talent by sending him to his first acting workshop. At Manav Bharti School, he played tabla in morning assemblies and in inter school competitions and also acted in small English skits. After completed his 5th grade he changed his school to Green Fields School. Aside from school music and drama inter school competitions at Green Fields, Aekansh joined the National School Of Drama workshop, followed by NSD Theatre in Educations course part 1 and Part 2. Later he acted in stage plays with theatre group, Sahitya Kala Parishad and a play on India's freedom under the I.B. Ministry as Cellular Jail of India completed 200 years. He side by side participated in stage plays at school level. Aekansh has many certificates at National and International Levels in Drama. Getting an admission through ECA dramatics quota, he worked in three street plays under the dramatics society "The Players" and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kirori Mal College at Delhi University, where he studied English (hons). Aekansh has done more than 80 plays (stage+street),national and international level till now. Career: Aekansh bagged his first role in Anurag Kashyap's critically acclaimed movie Dev.D (2009), playing the role of junior Dev. In the same year, he featured in Balika Vadhu on Colors TV where he played a negative character 'Sundar'. In 2015, Vats worked in an ad campaign for Mumbai Police directed by Shlok Sharma and acted in Ranjan Sharma''s short film Home (2015). In year 2018 and 2019 Aekansh got into web with Arre channel and did some sketches which were on the trending list of Youtube and a Web-series "Tathaastu". In 2020 Aekansh released his first short film "The Guests" as an actor, writer and as a director.