2021: The Year Of Aaryan and Aarya!

What was  it about 2021 that made one  name,one title Aarya/Aaryan  more in-demand than  others? If Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan  Khan  made headlines ,  Kartik Aaryan  was  hands-down  the star of the year ,not only for his super-successful performance as a news anchor desperate  for TRPs in Netflix’s  Dhamaka, but also for signing  plum roles  and bagging some  of  the choicest  projects  obtainable in  Bollywood  during its critical post-Covid phase.

 Kartik Aaryan’s Dhamaka  director Ram Madhavani had another Aaryan connection in 2021.His webseries Aarya entered a  second season  giving  its leading lady the  monstrously underrated  Sushmita Sen. the kind of career fillip  it   needed. Aarya has overnight turned Sushmita into one of  the  most  sought-after  actors  on the  digital platform

Speaking of  Aarya and  Aaryan brings us  to Arya, the Tamil  actor who came  into his own with  Amazon Prime’s  prized  Tamil feature  film  Sarpatta Parambarai. Tamil star Arya , his  wife and family faced   peculiar trauma during the past one year. Two men had been impersonating Arya  on  the  internet ; they cheated  a Tamil woman in Germany of nearly  75 lakh rupees  and promised to marry her , all the while pretending to be  Arya.Arya’s ordeal ended  when the cybercell arrested   Mohammad Arman and Mohammad Hussaini of Pulianthope for impersonating Arya.

At year-end it is the versatile Tamil-Hindi  actor Madhavan  making waves as Arya in  the  eminently watchable Netflix series Decoupled.

In one  way or another Arya-Aryan  was  the most googled name  in 2021  from the  Indian entertainment  world.