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Raj Kumar Rao Birthday Special: Rajkumar Rao, one of the versatile and best actors of Bollywood, is celebrating his 42nd birthday on 31 August 2026. The journey of Rajkumar, who came from a small town and made his own identity in the industry without any film godfather, is no less than a film story. On one hand, in his professional life, brilliant films like ‘Shahid’, ‘Newton’ and ‘Stree’ made him a great transformation king, on the other hand, his personal life is also no less than an interesting story. His wife Patralekha thought him ‘creepy’ i.e. scary and strange after seeing him in the film ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha’ for the first time, but today the same couple is one of the cutest couples of Bollywood. Let us know in detail about this unique journey of Rajkumar Rao.

When Patralekha felt ‘creepy’

The love story of Rajkumar Rao and Patralekhaa is quite filmy and interesting. Patralekha had told in an interview that she had seen Rajkumar in his debut film ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha’, in which his character was quite different and intense. The impact of that film was such on Patralekha’s mind that she started considering it very scary and strange even in real life. When she was asked to go to Pune shoot for an advertisement, out of fear she took her sister along with her. But during the shoot, seeing Rajkumar’s dedication towards work, his simplicity and his madness for acting, Patralekha’s perspective completely changed. The closeness between the two grew, they started dating from the year 2010 and finally on 15 November 2021, both of them got married in Chandigarh.

New characters enhanced with seriousness

Rajkumar Rao, who studied acting from FTII, Pune, started his acting career in 2010 with Dibakar Banerjee’s film ‘Love Sex Aur Dhoka’. After this, he got many small roles, but films like ‘Kai Po Che!’, ‘Shahid’ and ‘Queen’ gave him a different image in Bollywood. Especially the film ‘Shahid’, based on the life of human rights worker and lawyer Shahid Azmi, proved that Rajkumar has the ability to adapt completely to any character. He never liked to follow a fixed path, but tried to do something new and challenging every time.

Rajkumar is called transformation king like this

What makes Rajkumar Rao different from other actors is that he completely changes himself in every film. In the film ‘Trapped’, he played the character of a man who gets trapped in an apartment without water and food, and he was seen alone for most of the film. Apart from this, be it the role of an honest government clerk in ‘Newton’ or the dark character of ‘Omerta’, he worked very closely on his body language, voice and accent every time. Rajkumar believes that doing the same characters again and again bores him, so he always likes to experiment.

Got commercial stardom from ‘Stree’

While films like ‘Shahid’ and ‘Newton’ made him a critically acclaimed actor, the horror-comedy film ‘Stree’ made him a big commercial star among the mass audience. The character of ‘Vicky’ in the film proved that this actor, who does serious and serious acting, also knows how to make one laugh very well. Now the next big step in Rajkumar Rao’s career is the biopic of former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, in which he will be seen playing the lead role. Sourav Ganguly himself has expressed confidence in his acting talent. Rajkummar Rao’s journey from that ‘creepy’ boy of ‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha’ to becoming today’s transformation king is proof that even the impossible can be made possible with true hard work and passion.