Early life and family
Maulik was born in the year 1987 on June 4 in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. This is where he was bought up and spends his childhood. He completed his higher studies at Gujarat University, Ahmedabad – B.A. History from H.K Arts College. A middle class family – father Jagdish Nayak was a Government employee now retired and his mother Meena was a home maker. Maulik Nayak is married to Happy Bhavsar who is a Film & Television actress and voice over artist . Happy too is in the creative field like him.
Center stage – Child to Adult
Even as a child the seed of performing arts was growing within in Maulik. He was the one who would entertain guests at home, take part in society events and he had a flair for mimicry. He loved playing the tabla too. Hence it was not surprising when he chose this field as a career. He worked backstage helping artists in plays. In the year 2004 he got his first break as an artist in a play / drama. This was his first step onto amateur theatre.
Once the ball was set rolling he did commercial plays, street plays, theatres, drama and took up multiple roles on stage. He was good and had a good sense of timing in comic characters. However, he tried his hand at other roles too as he did not want to be typecast. Fortunately work kept flowing on the acting front and on one such occasion, a big name in the movie industry came up to him and told him “I am looking for you to work in my one project for comedy role”. That was a huge moment for Maulik.
Since 2015, he is working with radio station 93.5 Red FM as an RJ ( character RJ). He is managing a special show titled ” Filmi Dayro ” Broadcast at Surat, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, and Baroda.
The big screen came calling
The year 2016 he got his break into acting in Guajarati films. Some of the movies he was part of were Premji: Rise of a warrior, Romance complicated, Vitamin she, Chhuti jase chhakka, Montu ni Bittu and Hellaro to name a few. He loved his work and always took one step at a time and treated each day as a learning experience. Maulik did a short film of just 3 minutes, despite being told this would be a regressive step. He loved the script and he did it because of his passion for good work, stories and the right platform.
Struggle on the chart
Struggles and Challenges is another facet of life and its share is existent in everyone’s life. Maulik Nayak too had his ups and downs. He would travel between Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad to save time. There were days when he waited the whole night for transport and had his own challenges of missing meals, lack of sleep etc. Late night and early morning shoot schedules do not allow most artists to lead a normal life and the schedule changes can be very daunting.
Sometime the going got very tough and Maulik had to battle some health issues which forced him to be out of action. It was upsetting and unsettling on the career front. However he bounced back with a good comeback. Support of his friends and family was a blessing during this phase. He is blessed to have them around.
Awards and rewards
Maulik has been the recipient of many awards in this short span. He was part of genius book of world record and Limca book of world record for largest drum playing team (320 drum players) for duration of approximately 1 hrs 20 minutes. Besides that he won the following awards that come with heaps of motivation and inspiration to do better with every new project.
- Best actor award for ” Premji : Rise of a warrior” By Gujarat government
- Tranmedia awards, Best comedy actor for film “Romance complicated “
- GIFA, outstanding performance of the year – 2019 for ” Montu ni Bittu “
- Transmedia, Best Actor for “Montu ni Bittu”
- He is part of ” Hellaro” which got a national award and now ” Hellaro ” has been nominated for canes festival too.
A new page to turn – A fresh chapter!
A creative mind like Maulik Nayak looks for new chapters to add to their creative story. Having tried his hand at most artistic field viz playing musical instruments, singing, dance and acting both theatre and films. He now wants to try his hand at writing. There are many colors in a rainbow and embracing each one of them is indeed how a creative mind thinks.
Philosophy that always works
Maulik Nayak feel the inner passion to do a certain kind of work is always satisfying. Doing something for the sake of working and if it leaves you frustrated at the end, is truly not worth spending time and energy on. If your work is your love, you automatically will excel in it. What follows is the money and fame, which if destined will come to you. Also fame and money is not everything but happiness and joy of doing something well is what matters.
