About Utkarsh
Bio
2019 should prove to be quite a year for multihypenate UTKARSH AMBUDKAR, one of the freshest, smartest, most relevant voices in the business right now.
Following his pivotal, largely improvised scene in the middle of last year’s opening night entry BLINDSPOTTING (d: Carlos López Estrada), Ambudkar returned to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with a breakout performance opposite Jillian Bell in the US Dramatic Competition comedy BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON. Ambudkar is the romantic lead to the titular character, an underachieving hot mess of a 27-year-old woman who decides to take control of her life -- one New York City block at a time.
Ambudkar most recently completed work in New Zealand on MULAN, the live-action adaptation of Disney’s 1998 animated feature from director Niki Caro. Ambudkar plays con artist Skatch. Disney will release MULAN on March 27, 2020.
Ambudkar’s debut album “Vanity” is now available everywhere. His brand of raw and melodic hip-hop addresses race, the first generation immigrant experience, politics and Hollywood and also features Ambudkar’s old rap crew, including Lin-Manuel Miranda, BLINDSPOTTING’s Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal, and a variety of South Asian artists such as Das Racist’s Heems, Brooklyn Shanti, Kaly and others