Birth Name: Ashmit Patel
Ashmit Patel is an Indian actor who is actress Ameesha Patel’s brother. In his 8 years of career span he has not delivered any solo hit. Ashmit has been in controversies for various reasons.
Date Of Birth: 13 January 1978
Ashmit Patel is the son of Amit Patel and Asha Patel, the younger brother of Amisha Patel, and the grandson of the famous lawyer-politician Barrister Rajni Patel who was the Congress Pradesh Committee President of Bombay.
He studied at the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai and later attended the University of Texas at Austin in United States, from which he received a bachelor’s degree in Business in 2000. After graduation he worked in his father's business for a while, but later decided to act in films like his sister.
He started his career as an assistant director and worked with Vikram Bhatt in the making of his films, Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage (2002), Awara Paagal Deewana (2002), Raaz (2002) and Footpath (2003).
He made his acting debut with the film Inteha directed by Vikram Bhatt. In 2004, he appeared alongside Mallika Sherawat and Emraan Hashmi in the thriller Murder, a Bollywood inspiration of Unfaithful. The film was his first commercial success.
Unfortunately, none of his films took off well at he box office thereafter.
Ashmit featured as one of the finalists in the fourth season of the Indian television reality show Bigg Boss.
Ashmit was in news when the MMS video showed Riya Sen kissing Ashmit Patel and then some steamy scenes followed later turns into a heater conversation. Riya Sen and Ashmit Patel were dating each other for a longtime but the matter became worse when Ashmit found that Riya was cheating on him. Later, it is said that Ashmit might have released the video of their private moment on the web to take revenge from the actress starting this Riya Sen Ashmit Patel MMS Scandal that shot the actress to fame and popularity.