Akhil has an experience of over 20 years with a strong background in the film, television and digital industry with an in-depth knowledge of commercial and production work. He has also worked in various creative capacities in both fiction and non-fiction space.
He has been associated with path-breaking shows like The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Season 3 & 4, Radio City’s Babbar Sher, Kota Factory etc.
While working on The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, he auditioned and selected fresh talent such as Kapil Sharma, Sudesh Lahiri, Chandan Prabhakar, Rajiv Thakur, Sugandha Mishra etc. and later jammed with them and created some of the most iconic stand-up comedy acts seen on the Indian Television. His show Kota Factory Season 1 was declared the topmost web-series of 2019 by iMDB.
On the personal front, he was among the Top 64 people from across India to get selected as a contestant on the prestigious television quiz show BBC Mastermind India.
He is very passionate about sports, cinema and reading books, comics and graphic novels and has a keen interest in quizzing, travelling, nature and wildlife, discussing politics, history and trivia and spending time wandering in the mountains.