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Shekhar Suman is amongst the most famous television hosts in India today. Born on the 14th of June 1960. Father's name: Dr Phani Bhushan Prasad. He started his career as a television actor in a serial Wah Janab. He moved on to films doing a role in a Shashi Kapoor film Utsav, which flopped.

Shekhar has acted in almost 30 films. He was out of the Indian entertainment scenario for quite a while. During this period he was supported (in many senses of the word) by his wife, Alka (Kapoor), whom he married on 4th of May 1984 after a two year courtship. They have a son, Aadhyayan. The couple sadly lost their eldest son, Aayush, in whose memory Shekhar is constructing a hospital in Patna in Bihar.

He returned to TV in 1993 as "Chachu" (variant of Chacha- meaning uncle- father's younger brother in Hindi language) in Dekh Bhai Dekh- the mother of all sitcoms of Indian television industry. Almost simultaneously, he also starred in another TV serial- Reporter. He has been quite successful as a TV actor and host since.

Currently, he hosts hard hitting satirical TV Talk shows on entertainment and news channels, his particular brand of humour being a heady cocktail of obnoxiousness, irreverence, and simple everyday observations.

He has earned quite a good name because of his shows and witty humour on politics, corruption, famous people etc. The claim that his relationship with the Indian people is on the hate side is not right; thought his jokes, sometimes, are gross and quite difficult to watch at home with family members seated in an Indian home.

His talk shows were Movers and Shakers on the Sony Entertainment Network and Simply Shekar on Zee Television. They were primarily modelled on and adapted from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He until February 2006 hosted The Great Indian Comedy Show on Star One for sometime plus doing some episodes for Dial One aur Jeeto on Sahara TV. In the past also he has done some quiz shows like Bid Bid Boom on Zee Television and He-Man on Star One. He also hosts a show on Star News, Poll Khol (which ambiguously means 'uncovering' in Hindi language) in which he speculates humorously over the current political scenario in India.

Apart from this, he is one of the judges of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge along with Navjot Singh Sidhu, a former cricketer. This programme, a stand-up comedy contest, is the first of its kind on Indian television.

=Television Serials:=

Amar Prem
Andaz
Bid Bid Boom
Bombay Blue
Chote Miyan Bade Miyan
Dekh Bhai Dekh
Dial One Aur Jeeto
Dum Dama Dum
Ek Raja Ek Rani
Film Deewane
Geet Gaata Chal
Great Indian Comedy Show
Great Indian Laughter Challenge
He-Man
Kabhi Idhar Kabhi Udhar
Made in India
Movers & Shakers
Poll Khol
Reporter
Simply Shekhar
Wah Janaab

=Filmography:=

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