Personal life:
Dayanand Shetty was born on 11th December, 1969,in a Tulu speaking Bunt family in Katapadi village of Udupi district of Karnataka State in India to Chandra prakash Shetty and Uma Shetty.He has two sisters.He did his B.com from Rizvi College, Bandra. He married Smitha Shetty and they have a eight year old daughter named Viva.
Professional life:
He is basically a sports man turning an actor because of leg injury. He was a shotput and discus thrower, which brought him many prizes. He was the champion of discus throw from State Maharastra in 1994.
Though he has acted in many commercials, plays and even in film, but he got fame as Senior Inspector Daya in CID.
His pair with Aditya Srivastav, as Sr. Insp. Abhijit in CID is known as duo and won the award of Sahasic jody in Indian tele awards 2010. The lovely comradeship between this two made the show more and more popular.
Or they are the Jai-Veeru of CID 😆😉
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TV serials
(i) Senior Inspector Daya in CID (1997-present)
(ii) Senior Inspector Daya in CID special bureau
(iii) Harpreet in GuturGu (2010)
(iv) Celeb guest in Deal Ya NO Deal,
(v) Celeb guest in Dus Ka dum
(vi) Guest appearances in Jassi jaisi koi nahi, Kkusum
(vii) As a contestant in the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhla Jaa
PLAYS
(ii) Kalchakra
(ii) Secret (iii) Eshwar allah tero naam
FILMS
(ii) Jhonny Gaddar
(ii) Runaway
COMMERCIALS
(i) CASTROL
(ii) CHAWANPRASH
(iii) HERO HONDA
(iv) LIFE
Awards received:
(i) Best looking guy of Indian television in 2002
(ii) Sahshi Jodi Award (along with Abhijeet for CID) in Star Big Awards, 2010
(iii) Honoured at World Bunts' Cultural & Sports Meet
Dayanand's Professional Life History
on stage
Dayanand shetty started his acting career as theatre artist. Prakash Shetty of the famous Chandru Prakash theatre has introduced him in stage plays & after that he has worked in many plays... in his mother tongue Tulu & Hindi...
Some popular Hindi and Tulu dramas of Dayanand are "SECRET" and "EESHWAR ALLAH TERO NAAM". He got the best actor award for acting in "SECRET". He also did the lead role in the famous Tulu drama "KAALA CHAKRA".
In CID:
Dayanand shetty got fame as daya sir in CID😛...a character which he has been playing since 13 years & still going strong👏...& coz it requires him to shoot 4-5days a week we see him only in CID... also sometimes catching his glimpse in Gutur Gu on Sab TV...as harpreet..
Famous Choreographer Ganesh Hegde's assistant Sanjay Shetty is Dayanand's good friend. He assisted Dayanand to meet with the producer of CID, B.P. Singhn. Because of his handsome look and strong personality B.P. Singh chose Dayanand to do the role of inspector in the show😳
Dayanand joined from the 15th episode as Inspector Daya,from 1998.
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