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Harsh Beniwal

Harsh Beniwal is an Indian comedy creator and actor whose character-led YouTube sketches sit alongside roles in Campus Diaries, Heartbeats and Student of the Year 2.

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Overview

Born: 13 February 1996
From: Delhi, India
Work: Comedy creator, actor, writer and producer
Started: Making videos in May 2015
Breakout: Dubsmash clips, followed by original comedy vines
Film debut: Student of the Year 2 (2019), as Puggi

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How it started.

Harsh began making videos in May 2015, when Dubsmash was catching on. In a 2017 interview, he explained that he soon wanted to create something of his own. Short comedy vines became his breakthrough, building an audience for his characters and sketches.

Choosing acting.

He left his BCA course in the second year to pursue acting. His videos then brought a film opportunity: the Student of the Year 2 casting team approached him after watching his work. He auditioned and made his film debut as Puggi in 2019.

Beyond the sketch.

His screen credits include Soggy in Who’s Your Daddy?, Sudheer in Campus Diaries and Akshat in Heartbeats. Campus Diaries earned him a 2022 SPOTT Award for comic performance. Alongside acting, he keeps making longer YouTube stories, including the assassin comedy Checkmate and the supernatural comedy Bhootiyapa.

Creditschronological, newest first

Series and film

2026Heartbeats, season 2Akshat
2024Heartbeats, season 1Akshat
2022Campus DiariesSudheer
2020Who’s Your Daddy?Soggy
2019Student of the Year 2Puggi; film debut

YouTube stories

2026Bank chorCast, producer and co-director
2025A Day with a Pakistani GeneralCast, producer and co-director
2025BhootiyapaRehman; producer and co-director
2025Sach ki raat with Anubhav aroraCast, co-writer, co-director and producer
2023CheckmateKukku; co-writer, creative director and producer

Awards

SPOTT Awards 2022Winner, Performance in a Comic Role: Web Series (Male / Female), for Campus Diaries.

Quotes

While I want to dedicate my time to Bollywood, I will never stop creating video content, for that’s what got me here.Harsh Beniwal, The Indian Express, 13 April 2019

On balancing his film ambitions with the videos that helped him get started.

Trivia

He said dance made him popular at school, and that he would have been a dancer if he had not become a video creator.
In his early sketch-making process, he would sit with teammates and build ideas from everyone’s suggestions.
For Puggi in Student of the Year 2, he grew his beard and gained weight after the character was reworked as a Sikh student.