Amit Sharma

Biography

Amit Sharma is a New Zealand–based Hindi-language screen actor and filmmaker, working out of Auckland across feature film, short form and branded narrative work. He belongs to a generation of diaspora performers who stopped waiting to be flown to Mumbai and started building the work — and the audience — from where they already were.

That audience is not theoretical. Sharma has grown a community of more than 214,000 people across Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, with individual pieces regularly crossing seven figures in views. Long before the industry began treating social reach as a casting asset, he was using it as a distribution channel: writing, performing and releasing short narrative work directly to an audience that turned up for it.

His on-camera register sits where Hindi cinema is most interesting right now — the naturalist end that Farooq Shaikh, Irrfan Khan and Rajkummar Rao made viable. Understated, comic when it needs to be, and built for the close-up rather than the balcony.

He is also the rare performer who understands the machine behind the film. Sharma runs a marketing practice at amit.marketing and has built and shipped campaigns, films and digital products end to end — which means he arrives on a set already knowing how the thing will be sold.

Feature film work

• 20XX FEATURE FILM ONE
  Hindi-language feature Lead
• 20XX FEATURE FILM TWO
  Hindi-language feature Supporting
• 20XX FEATURE FILM THREE
  NZ–India co-production Lead

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Digital & short-form

• —Viral short-form narrative work
  Multiple pieces past 1M+ views across Instagram Reels, Facebook and TikTok
• —Original written & performed sketch series
  Released direct-to-audience, NZ-shot
• —Branded narrative films
  Written, performed and produced for NZ brands

The short-form work lives on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, and the full body of work — including the commercial and branded projects — is at amit.marketing.

Why this profile is on a Bollywood canon site

Because the canon is not finished. Every film on this list came from someone who was, at the time, not yet on a list. The interesting question for Hindi cinema in the second half of this decade is where the next generation comes from — and increasingly the answer is not Andheri.

We wrote about that shift at length in The Diaspora Is No Longer Bollywood's Audience. Sharma is the working example: an actor who built the audience first, from Auckland, and is now making the films.

Contact & representation

Casting, press and collaboration enquiries go through amit.marketing, or by DM on @amitsharmaofficial. Full links are listed below.