Harsh Mayar Biography - Age, Height, Weight, Wiki, Family, Girlfriend

Harsh Mayar at the Critics Choice Awards in Mumbai. Photo: Sukithebest, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Every Friday this June, the Mishra family was back on Indian screens. Gullak reached its fifth season on SonyLIV, and that made it the first Hindi streaming show to run that long. The younger son, Aman, is still played by Harsh Mayar. He is 28 now, married, and a long way from where most viewers first saw him — but the face has been on screen, one way or another, since he was a small boy in a Delhi theatre group.

Plenty of child actors vanish once they grow up. Mayar did the opposite. He won a National Film Award at 13, spent years doing small parts that few people noticed, and then, as an adult, landed the role that made him a household face all over again. This page tells that story in full.

It Started in a Delhi Theatre

Harsh Mayar was born on Sunday 22 March 1998 in Delhi, and he grew up in Dakshinpuri, in the south of the city. His father, Ashok Mayar, runs a tent rental business, and his mother is Reeta Mayar. Money was tight at home. He has said plainly that his family was not well off, and that his parents could not have paid for acting classes on their own.

He was a restless child who was not keen on school, but he loved copying people. His uncle, Sunil Kumar, saw where that energy could go and paid for him to join the Shri Ram Centre in Mandi House, Delhi's theatre district, in 2005. Harsh was eight. He worked backstage first, and his first role on stage was a monkey. He still laughs about it. Over the next few years he acted in a handful of stage shows and kept going to auditions — by his own count, close to 200 of them, for singing, dancing and acting work.

He was picked for the film Chillar Party, then had to let it go after he broke his right hand while playing. A few months later, with the hand healed, his parents talked him into one more audition. He has said he was chosen from around 3,000 children. The film was I Am Kalam.

Chhotu, the Boy Who Wanted to Study

I Am Kalam was shot in Rajasthan in 2009 and released on 5 August 2011. It was directed by Nila Madhab Panda and produced by the Smile Foundation. Mayar plays Chhotu, a poor boy who works at a roadside eatery and dreams of going to school. He renames himself Kalam, after the former President, A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, whose life story inspires him. Gulshan Grover played the eatery owner, Bhati, and Pitobash Tripathy played Chhotu's friend Laptan.

The performance changed his life. At the 58th National Film Awards, for the films of 2010, he won Best Child Artist. He was 13. President Pratibha Patil presented him with the Rajat Kamal award in New Delhi on Friday 9 September 2011. The film also brought him acting prizes at festivals in California and Minsk, and a special mention at the children's film festival in Hyderabad. Dr Kalam himself later gifted the boy his autobiography, Wings of Fire.

Harsh Mayar, aged 13, receives the Rajat Kamal for Best Child Artist from President Pratibha Patil at the 58th National Film Awards, New Delhi, 9 September 2011. Photo: President's Secretariat, Government of India (GODL-India), via Wikimedia Commons.

The Quiet Years

Fame at 13 did not turn into steady work. Through his teens, Mayar took what came. He played Ajite, the leader of a gang of village children, in Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid (2012). He played Nanu in the Indian-American film Desires of the Heart (2013), and Awadesh in Chaarfutiya Chhokare (2014), alongside Soha Ali Khan. On television he appeared in the crime show Gumrah: End of Innocence in 2014, then led DD National's Aadha Full as Adrak, one of three teenagers who solve cases in their home town. He also kept a foot in theatre, playing Annant in the Hindi musical Paighamber, sharing the stage with Tom Alter and Amit Behl, and he acted in short films along the way.

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He has been honest about that stretch. In one interview he said he waited about six years for a first big break as a grown-up actor, and that it finally came with Hichki (2018). In that film he plays Aatish, one of the slum children in class 9F, taught by Rani Mukerji's character. It was a small part in a hit film, and it put him back in front of casting directors. The same year he played Taru in Nine Hours in Mumbai.

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Aman Mishra and the Gullak Family

The break that stuck arrived in 2019. Gullak, made by The Viral Fever (TVF) and created by Shreyansh Pandey, tells the story of the Mishra family of a small north Indian town — father Santosh (Jameel Khan), mother Shanti (Geetanjali Kulkarni), elder son Annu and younger son Aman, played by Mayar. There is no big plot. The show runs on small things: money worries, exam pressure, quarrels over nothing, and the warmth underneath them. Viewers recognised their own homes in it, and the show kept coming back.

Mayar has played Aman through all five seasons. He says he keeps the character real by watching young people around him and borrowing small habits and reactions. His work in the show earned him a Filmfare OTT Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a comedy in 2022. Season 5, which streamed in June 2026, brought one change the audience had to get used to: Anant V Joshi took over as Annu from Vaibhav Raj Gupta, who had played the part for four seasons. Aman, though, stayed exactly who he has always been — and Mayar with him.

Gullak is his best-known work, but it is not his only screen work of these years. He played Sujay in the ZEE5 crime series Abhay (2019), Jugnu in the Hotstar film Kanpuriye (2019), and Manoj Bhardwaj in the mini-series Overtime (2020). He played Rocky in The Tenant (2023). And in January 2026 he was on the big screen again, as Lappu in the comedy One Two Cha Cha Chaa. Like a few other child stars of his generation — Sparsh Khanchandani, who played the young Ichha in Uttaran, is another — he has built a second career as an adult instead of living off the first one.

Quick Facts

Full Name	Harsh Mayar
Born	Sunday, 22 March 1998, Delhi, India
Age	28 years old
Nationality	Indian
Profession	Actor
Years Active	2011–present (on stage from 2005)
Parents	Ashok Mayar and Reeta Mayar
Brother	Chandan Mayar
Spouse	Sukanya Rajan Mayar, married 25 November 2022
Known For	Chhotu in I Am Kalam, and Aman Mishra in Gullak

Films and Shows

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2011	I Am Kalam	Chhotu (Kalam)	His first film; won the National Film Award for Best Child Artist
2012	Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid	Ajite	Children's film, shot in the Thar desert region
2013	Desires of the Heart	Nanu	Indian-American English-language film
2014	Chaarfutiya Chhokare	Awadesh	With Soha Ali Khan
2014	Gumrah: End of Innocence	Bully	Television, Channel V crime series
2015	Untitled – The Words Left Unsaid	Nitin	Short film
2016	Aadha Full	Adrak	Television lead role, DD National
2018	Hichki	Aatish	With Rani Mukerji; his first big break as an adult
2018	Nine Hours in Mumbai	Taru
2019	Abhay	Sujay	Web series, ZEE5
2019	Kanpuriye	Jugnu	Hotstar film
2019	Padh Le Basanti	Karun Nair	TVF web video
2019–	Gullak	Aman Mishra	Web series, TVF/SonyLIV; main cast, seasons 1–5
2020	Overtime	Manoj Bhardwaj	Web mini-series
2023	The Tenant	Rocky
2026	One Two Cha Cha Chaa	Lappu	Comedy film, released 16 January 2026

Gullak, Season by Season

Season	First Released	Episodes	Notes
1	27 June 2019	5	The Mishra family is introduced; Aman is the younger son
2	15 January 2021	5	The show moves fully to SonyLIV
3	7 April 2022	5	Mayar is nominated at the Filmfare OTT Awards for his role
4	7 June 2024	5	Aman is older, and job hunting enters the family story
5	5 June 2026	7	Anant V Joshi takes over as Annu; Aman returns from his hostel with a secret

Awards

Year	Award	Result	For
2011	National Film Award — Best Child Artist (58th National Film Awards)	Won	I Am Kalam
2010	Minsk International Film Festival (Listapad) — Best Actor	Won	I Am Kalam
2011	Silent River Film Festival, California — River Rock Award for Best Actor	Won	I Am Kalam
2011	International Children's Film Festival India, Hyderabad — Special Mention, Best Actor	Won	I Am Kalam
2012	Screen Award — Best Child Artist	Nominated	I Am Kalam
2022	Filmfare OTT Awards — Best Supporting Actor (Comedy)	Nominated	Gullak

Married at 24, and Still a Delhi Boy

On Friday 25 November 2022, Mayar married Sukanya Rajan, in a small wedding with close family and friends. The two had first met as children, lost touch, and met again years later. He has joked that people still ask him how he could marry at 24. Sukanya is a scientist who was based in Ireland; she has since also taken on managing his work. The couple live in Mumbai, but he is clear about where home is. His parents are in Delhi, and in a 2026 interview he said Delhi is where he was born and where his family is, and that he misses its winters and its food. His younger brother, Chandan Mayar, works as a makeup artist. This site's biography of Ishita Panchal, another child actor of the same era, tells a similar story of an early start.

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Harsh Mayar?
He is 28 years old. He was born on 22 March 1998 in Delhi, India, and he turns 29 in March 2027.

Is Harsh Mayar the boy from I Am Kalam?
Yes. He played Chhotu, the boy who renames himself Kalam, in I Am Kalam (2011). The role won him the National Film Award for Best Child Artist when he was 13.

Who does Harsh Mayar play in Gullak?
He plays Aman Mishra, the younger son of the Mishra family. He has played the part in all five seasons, from 2019 to season 5 in June 2026, on SonyLIV.

Is Harsh Mayar married?
Yes. He married Sukanya Rajan on 25 November 2022, when he was 24. They had known each other since childhood. She is a scientist, and she also manages his work.

How tall is Harsh Mayar?
Profiles disagree — most put him at about 5 ft 6 in, but the figures vary from site to site, so this page does not print one as settled fact.

What is Harsh Mayar's net worth?
No reliable figure has been published. Websites print guesses that range widely and give no source for them, so this page does not print one either.

What is Harsh Mayar doing now?
In 2026 he played Lappu in the comedy film One Two Cha Cha Chaa, released in January, and Aman again in Gullak season 5, which streamed on SonyLIV in June 2026.

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