Raghav Diwan, a city boy has created a niche for himself in the world of web screen. In a web series Raghav has essayed a role of a cancer patient. He lived the character of the cancer patient for his upcoming short film Metamorphosis.
Highlighting the state of cancer patients and the state of their families, Metamorphosis talks about human relations in a very subtle way.
To be released this month, the short film is about how helpless the underprivileged section of society feels. Raghav who plays the cancer patient in the film has done more than 70 short films but states that this was till now the most challenging role for him to play because even when he knew how a cancer patient looks like, he could not feel and dreaded the idea of feeling what a cancer patients might have felt.
Raghav pursued his career as a magician and his Guru Shri Nafees Hussian carved him in magical skills when he was just 14 years old and after he ran away from his house. In no time he became a popular magician and started performing regularly at Pizza outlets. Later on, he rediscovered himself as an actor and after 3 years of ongoing career as a magician he decided to turn as an actor for films and shifted to Mumbai.
He relocated from Bhopal to Mumbai and joined Passion Acting School to refine his acting skills. There, he learned acting and nuances of filmmaking but the struggle after school continued. In absence of good food, he starved, in absence of roof he slept in Mumbai’s busy platforms but all these hurdles made him stronger to pursue what he wanted to do.
He continued his efforts and finally got his first project with a veteran actress Pooja Bhatt in a music video of Moto G5 Plus. But what after that? Raghav had no assignments thereafter in hands but he kept sending his work to Pooja Bhatt in a hope that she will acknowledge his work one day and that happened. That was the day where Raghav’s efforts were at the edge of hope and since then he has been working continuously in various short films and ads.
He was invited as a speaker in FIICI Frames 2017 Digital Dream Session where he shared the stage with experts like Ashish Kulkarni, Vivek Kajaria, Paula McGlynn and Tisca Chopra. His short film “Wallet” crowned him 1 million views on youtube whereas “Falling in love “ got huge recognition and awards which was no less than a success for him so far. Following his journey, he did many films like 18+ jobseeker, Sutta Chhod Na Yarr, Death of an IITian, Oh shit, which were produced under the banner of Chai Stories.