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Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala
- Ashutosh Lobo Gajiwala (Hindi: ?????? ???? ?????????) (born 17 May 1993) is an Indian film actor and entrepreneur.
- Gajiwala is best known for his 2008 role as the young Salim Malik in the film Slumdog Millionaire.
- He received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for the film. Gajiwala is based in Mumbai and resides with his family in Mumbai's Mahalaxmi area.
- His father, Kalpesh Gajiwala, is a plastic surgeon, and his mother Astrid Lobo is a doctor.
- He has two older sisters, Gayatri and Nivedita.
- Gajiwala attended the Campion School in Colaba.
- As a child, he was known for being an active theatre actor and singer.
- He later attended St.
- Xavier's College, Mumbai, and graduated with a bachelor's degree in Mass Media.
- Even in his early days, Gajiwala evinced a keen interest in entrepreneurial ventures and the start-up ecosystem.
- The work of Dr.
- Verghese Kurien and the Amul Model served as an inspiration to explore the aggregator-effect in civil movements and the use of technology in mass empowerment.
- In 2016, a long-standing dream of Gajiwala's saw the light of day when Polit completed its first round of funding.
- Gajiwala's venture, Polit, is an online voting platform that lets people ask and answer polls based on personal preference.
- Polit functions as a real-time national level register of public opinion, providing data on the collective perception of key issues and programmes.
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