Maradona Rebello

Maradona Rebello

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Maradona Rebello Profile

  • Name:
  • Maradona Rebello
  • Born:
  • June 22, 1986

Maradona Rebello Biography

Maradona Rebello is a Bollywood actor who began his filmy journey with 2010 movie, Pankh. Before making his acting debut, he had a brief stint in theatre as well as modelling. He was named Maradona after great footballer Diego Maradona, by his father who is a great fan of this legendary player. He played lead role in his debut movie and the movie was panned by critics. His second release was  Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyon (2010), which deals with a homosexual relationship. The movie received positive response from critics.

 

He was born in Mumbai on 22 June 1986. He was born during 1986 FIFA World Cup, one of the memorable series of Argentina’s Diego Maradona. When he scored "the goal of the century", Rebello was born in India. His father, a sports manager thus named his son, Maradona Rebello in honour of the great football player. Since childhood days, he was active in theatre and once he got opportunity to perform as a stage actor in National Gallery of Modern Art. He was spotted by a model coordinator outside a cinema hall and that’s how he started his modelling career.

 

In between he started giving auditions for Bollywood projects and Slumdog Millionaire was one such movie, he got rejected for his looks. Same year, while studying at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, he attended the auditions of Pankh and eventually got selected. The movie also starred Bipasha Basu, Lillete Dubey and Mahesh Manjrekar in pivot roles. The film was based on the case of child actor Ahsaas Channa, who was characterized as male child in movies, though she is a girl. Rebello played the pivot role in this movie. But the movie received negative response from critics as well as audience. His second release was Dunno Y... Na Jaane Kyon, which featured the first onscreen kiss between two males in an Indian movie.

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Updated: May 15, 2014

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