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'''Kunal Vijaykar''' (b. 19 May 1964) is a broadcaster, food writer, author, actor and television personality. A whole generation have watched him eat his way into the hearts of hundreds and thousands of Indians. He is India’s most recognisable food show host, and the anchor of the country's most popular food show ''The Foodie – with Kunal Vijayakar'', a show which ran uninterrupted for nine years, completing close to 500 episodes. He has been a food columnist and writer with ''The Times of India'', ''Bombay Times'', ''DNA'', ''Asian Age'', ''Mahanagar'', and ''The Week'' and is currently a food writer and columnist with ''Hindustan Times''. He is the author of ''Made In India'' – his first cookbook.<br />
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He is also an actor, director and political satirist, and writer, performer and director of the political satirical show ''The News That Wasn't'' and ''The Week That Wasn't'' on CNN News18.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
He studied at [[St. Mary's School, Mumbai]]. He then received his bachelor's degree from [[Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Art]], Mumbai.{{citation needed|date=June 2015}}<br />
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==Career==<br />
Kunal started out by appearing in various TV commercials and appeared in supporting roles in many Hindi movies, including ''[[Duplicate (1998 film)|Duplicate]]'' (1998) by [[Mahesh Bhatt]], ''Paisa Vasool'' (2004), and ''[[Salaam Namaste]]'' (2005) with [[Saif Ali Khan]] and [[Preity Zinta]].<br />
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He played the role of a journalist in the Hindi film ''[[Ghajini (2008 film)|Ghajini]]'' (2008) and was seen as Kunal in ''[[Little Zizou]]'' (2009), a story of the [[Parsi]] community.<br />
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He is the host of the channel [[Times Now]] show titled ''The Foodie'', which features him travelling around the country sampling exotic foods. His weekly satire comedy show [[The Week That Wasn't]], with comedian [[Cyrus Broacha]] on [[CNN IBN]] completed eight years and 450 episodes in 2015.<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/two-to-tickle/538601/ Two to tickle!: Together, Cyrus Broacha & Kunal Vijaykar can whip up quite a laughing storm] ''[[The Indian Express]]'', 7 November 2009.</ref> He does a [[sketch show]] with Cyrus Broacha, ''Cyrusitis'', written and directed by Broacha.<ref>[http://www.livemint.com/2009/09/24212113/The-Time-OutMint-Planner.html?pg=2 The Time Out-Mint Planner] [[Mint (newspaper)]], 24 September 2009.</ref><br />
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Vijaykar debuted as a screenwriter and director in 2009 with ''Fruit and Nut'', a comedy starring [[Dia Mirza]], [[Cyrus Broacha]], [[Boman Irani]], and [[Mahesh Manjrekar]].<ref>[http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/kunal-vijaykar/biography/34560 Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120724041800/http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/kunal-vijaykar/biography/34560 |date=24 July 2012 }} Champak.com.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121025102221/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-25/news-interviews/28095059_1_cyrus-broacha-dia-mirza-new-film Kunal gets nutty again!] TNN, ''[[The Times of India]]'', 25 October 2009.</ref><br />
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Since 2011, he also writes the fortnightly humour column "Funda Mental", in ''The Week'' magazine.<br />
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Has just written his first cookbook ''Made in India'', published by Jaico.<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
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===Actor===<br />
* ''[[Duplicate (1998 film)|Duplicate]]'' (1998)<br />
* ''[[Bollywood Calling]]'' (2001)<br />
* ''[[Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon]]'' (2003)<br />
* ''[[Paisa Vasool]]'' (2004)<br />
* ''[[Ab Tak Chhappan]]'' (2004)<br />
* ''[[Jo Bole So Nihaal (film)|Jo Bole So Nihaal]]'' (2005)<br />
* ''[[Salaam Namaste]]'' (2005))<br />
* ''[[Ghajini (2008 film)|Ghajini]]'' (2008)<br />
* ''[[Little Zizou]]'' (2009)<ref>[http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/celebrities/filmography/8943/index.html Filmography] [[Bollywood Hungama]].</ref><br />
* ''[[Fruit and Nut (film)|Fruit and Nut]]'' (2009)<br />
*[[Guilty (2020 film)|''Guilty'']] (2020)<br />
* ''[[Hello Charlie]]'' (2021)<br />
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===Director===<br />
* ''Fruit And Nut'' (2009)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb name|1576990}}<br />
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