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Madhur was born in Agra, India.
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Shortly after, his family moved to Mumbai where he joined Abhinav Vidya Mandir at Bhayander East for his schooling and Madhur forayed into acting and dancing on stage in charity shows, cultural events and film-award ceremonies. He traveled the world performing in over 950 stage shows. As a child actor he worked in well known Hindi films like One Two Ka Four, Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye, and more recently Say Salaam India.
He has also acted in several television shows including Shaka Laka Boom Boom, Kasauti Zindagi Ki, Jalwa, Chamatkar and Dastak.
Madhur Mittal"s role in Slumdog Millionaire has helped him to gain worldwide attention. To prepare himself for the role of Salim in Slumdog Millionaire after being cast he hung out with some of the ‘gangsters’ in Mira Road “to get into their heads".
Director Danny Boyle gave him a series of the Godfather to watch as that had a crazy brother in lieutenant Also, he had an accident which led him getting 12 stitches which helped with the rough look, he said.
He had to grow his hair long, increase his skin tan and lose weight to act as Salim.
Though Mittal gave a powerful performance in Slumdog Millionaire as Salim, he was kept away from the spotlight, the focus instead set firmly on the lead couple of the film. When asked about his absence from the studio-generated hype, he shrugs: “The studio wanted to promote it as a love story.” He was also set to be present for the 66th Golden Globe Awards and the 15th Screen Actors Guild Awards. Mittal plays Anwar Razdan in the second series of Kidnap and Ransom which aired on ITV1 from 23 February 2012.
Most recently, he starred in the Disney film Million Dollar Arm as Dinesh Patel.
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