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Vivek Oberoi

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Vivek Oberoi

Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi.

Birth date: September 3, 1976.
Place of Birth: Mumbai, India
In The Family: Vivek is the son of Bollywood Actor Suresh Oberoi.
Trivia: Vivke has been linked to Guru Preeth, Rani Mukherjee, and Aishwarya Rai. He was publicly threatened by Bollywood bad boy Salman Khan during a press conference.
Vivek Oberoi attended Mayo college in Ajmer. He was then discovered by the director of NYU during an actors workshop in London. Oberoi completed his Masters Degree in New York. Returning to India, he got his first big break in Ram Gopal Varma's gangster flick "Company" (2002).

Oberoi's career took off from there.Next in line was the psycho-thriller "Road" (2002) and then "Saathiya" (2002), opposite Bollywood superstar Rani Mukherjee which cemented his star status in the film industry. Highly publicized relationship with Mukherjee and Aishwarya Rai also didn't hurt his rise to fame.

Upcoming roles for the actor include Subhash Ghai's "Kisna," Mani Ratnam's "Yuva" and Samir Karnik's "Kyon Ho Gaya Na Pyar?".

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