Chandrachur Singh made his fabulous debut in Bollywood with the 1996 film, Maachis. His superb acting mettle brought him into the limelight almost instantaneously, resulting in him becoming an overnight sensation. Thereafter, he landed onto many other big opportunities, such as Josh, Dil Kya Kare, Aamdani Atthani Kharcha Rupaiyaa, among others.
However, his presence on the silver screen was short-lived, and he took a long sabbatical from the same. On the other hand, while much is known about his professional career, there is almost little known about his personal life. Well then, let us look at some of the lesser-known facets of his personal life.
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After basking in the glory of his initial successes, the actor’s career went for a toss, and finally, he ended up taking a long sabbatical from the same. For the unversed, the primary reason behind such a change in his career graph was one of his fatal accidents in Goa. He lost grip while performing skiing and suffered major shoulder dislocations. While the physical pain was extreme, he also suffered a drastic change in his looks due to medications and treatments, due to which he voluntarily exited from the showbiz world. In an interview with ETimes, he spoke about the same and mentioned:
“I had had an accident while jet skiing in Goa. I had lost my grip and my right hand was pulled out of the shoulder joint. There were multiple dislocations and I had to go through major surgery. I couldn’t shoot at a stretch, the pain would often become unbearable and I would have to leave shoots midway. Also, due to the medication, my weight would fluctuate drastically."
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Chandrachur Singh has always kept his personal life far hidden from the limelight of the media, and it was quite later that people got a whiff about his marriage. For the unversed, he got married to Avantika Mankotia in 1990 in a quiet and low-key ceremony in a farmhouse in Mehrauli. Avantika's family belonged from the well-known clan of the Mankotias from the Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. Her father, Thakur Ajai Singh holds supreme political autonomy in Himachal Pradesh and is a hotelier by profession. A few years later from their marriage, Chandrachur and Avantika was blessed with their baby boy.
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While much is not known about how Chandrachur and his wife drifted apart, nonetheless, it has left the actor with the responsibility of being a single father to his son. Once in an interview, Chandrachur had opened up on the reason behind staying out of social media and the limelight on most of the times, and revealed that he was too busy fulfilling the duties of a father that he did not have time left for his public image. In his words:
“Actually, I am a single father so that took up most of my time. I am pretty hands-on; I needed to be. So, I was occupied being a father for most of my time. I am actually not very skilled at handling social media. My son is going to teach me more about it. It is not my cup of tea so far but there will be a time when I will have much more work and I can then connect with the people about my work. Otherwise, I am not very media savvy."
Going further in the same interview, Chandrachur spoke about the kind of father he tries to be for his son, Shaarnajai. Nevertheless, he also mentioned how he left the answer for this to his son, and revealed that he has taken every single day of parenting as a learning experience. In his words:
“I don’t know. I guess my son would be the best person to answer this question. I believe that I keep learning on the job. Parenting, I think, is one of the toughest jobs. You make mistakes, you have your good moments, you keep learning and try to become better."
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Apart from his terrific acting skills, Chandrachur Singh is a trained classical singer who has been trained explicitly for the same right through his younger days. In fact, before making his film debut, he was a music teacher at the Vasant Valley School and a history teacher at his alma mater, The Doon School in Dehradun. While throughout his years of sabbatical away from acting, it was his love for music that had kept him company. Moreover, it was his son, who made it possible for him to sail through everything tough with a bright smile. Recalling the same in an interview with ETimes, he mentioned:
“Being with my son was important to me and I don’t regret my decision one bit! Also, spirituality, music, and above all, my son helped me sail through the bad times."
After a long sabbatical, Chandrachur Singh made his comeback on the celluloid with his power-packed performance in 2020 in the Sushmita Sen starrer, Arya released on the OTT platform, Disney+Hostar. Thereafter, in 2022 he made a notable performance in the Akshay Kumar starrer film, Cuttputli.
What do you think about these unheard fragments from Chandrachur Singh’s personal life?
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