Manoj Tiwari

Born: 1971-02-01

Manoj Tiwari is a politician, singer and actor from Bihar, India. He contested the 2009 national elections for the Samajwadi Party and won the North East Delhi (Lok Sabha constituency) in the 2014 Indian general elections as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate. He was head of the BJP organisation in Delhi when the party recorded a record victory in local elections in 2017. Prior to his involvement in cinema, he had spent years as a singer in the Bhojpuri film industry. In 2003, he took a role in the film Sasura Bada Paisawala, which was commericially succesful and was widely hailed for reviving the Bhojpuri film industry. He followed this with the successful films Daroga Babu I Love You and Bandhan Toote Na. The BBC reported in 2005 that Tiwari and Ravi Kishan were the biggest male stars in the flourishing Bhojpuri cinema market and that Tiwari charged around US$ 90,000 per film. In 2010, Tiwari was a contestant in the fourth season of reality television show Bigg Boss. Manoj Tiwari also sang "Jiya Ho Bihar Ke Lala Jiya Tu Haazar Sala" in Gangs of Wasseypur.


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Deshdrohi

as Shekhar
Released: 2008-11-14

Raja (Kamal R. Khan) leaves the rural life behind and heads for the big city of Mumbai to pursue...

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Sasura Bada Paisawala

as Raja
Released: 2003-01-01

A boy meets a girl, and they fall in love, they decide to marry against opposition, leading to...

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The Kapil Sharma Show

as Himself
First aired: 2016-04-23

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The Kapil Sharma Show

as Self
First aired: 2016-04-23

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Comedy Nights with Kapil

as Self
First aired: 2013-06-22

Comedy Nights with Kapil is a comedy show which provides a distinctive take on the everyday life...

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Comedy Nights Bachao

as Self
First aired: 2015-09-15

Based on the format of roast comedy, the show features comic crusaders who take a jibe at...

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