Divyendu Sharma, the 37-year old actor is known for his amazing performances in movies like Pyaar Ka Punchnama, Chashme Baddoor, Batti Gul Meter Chalu and many more.
However, Divyendu Sharma is popularly known as ‘Munna Tripathi’, a hot-headed gangster from Amazon Prime series Mirzapur. Divyendu has stunned his audience from his aggressive acting in Mirzapur. His role of Munna Tripathi in Mirzapur has now become the key highlights of his career.
We all know him by Munna, son of Kaleen Bhaiya from Mirzapur. But, how much you know about the real-life of Munna Bhaiya (Divyendu Sharma). Here are the real-life facts about Munna Bhaiya, the unruly gangster of Mirzapur.
1) Divyendu Sharma earned recognition in the Industry after his priceless performance as Munna Bhaiya in Amazon Prime series Mirzapur.
2) He is 37-years-old and completed his graduation in Political science from Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi.
3) Divyendu pursued a two-year diploma course in acting from FTII, Pune after 3-years of Theatre experience. He also worked for ads like Birla Sun Life, Virgin Mobile, and Fidelity Mutual Fund.
4) Divyendu dropped his surname (Sharma) in 2019 to remove the caste divisions based on surname.
5) His First screen appearance was as a side role in the movie Aaja Nachle, a popular comeback movie of Madhuri Dixit Nene in 2007.
6) Do you remember Liquid? He got his first major role as Liquid, an affable but aggressive character in Pyar Ka Punchnama 2011. Divyendu grabbed Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Male for his performance in the movie.
7) Another major film of Divyendu was David Dhawan’s 2013 remake of Chashme Baddoor, a hit buddy comedy with the same name.
8) He was also seen in a supporting role in two main-stream commercial movies – Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and Batti Gul Meter Chalu.
9) Divyendu revealed in an interview that he always wanted to play gangster roles and was eager to play characters like Travis Bickle from The Taxi Driver and Tony Stark from Iron Man.
10) He was approached by show-runners to play the character of Babloo Pandit in the show and Ali Fazal was supposed to play Munna Tripathi.
11) Ali Fazal later turned down the offer and agreed to play Guddu Pandit and Divyendu role of fan favourite ‘Munna Bhaiya.’
12) Divyendu credits Toilet: Ek Prem Katha from a major turn in his career.
13) He’s all set with another web-series Alt Balaji’s Bicchoo Ka Khel.
14) Personal Life – Divyendu is married to his college friend Akansha Sharma. They were good friends and got married after the release of the movie Pyaar Ka Punchnama.
