Known best for playing Prithvi Sanyal on the Channel V series Best Friends Forever? and Manik Malhotra on the MTV India show Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan, Samthaan is also famous as a finalist on the Pantaloons Fashion-sponsored Fresh Face Model Hunt of 2012. In the early years of his career as a model and entertainer, he attended the L.S. Raheja School of Architecture and trained at the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute.
