Jitendra Kumar was born on 1st September 1990 in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India into a Hindu family. His hometown is in Khairthal, Alwar, Rajasthan. His zodiac sign is Virgo and currently he is 28 years old (as of March 2019). His father is also a civil engineer and his mother is a housewife. He has two sisters Ritu and chinki.
Age : 28 yrs
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He did his early schooling from “M.K. Memorial School” till 10th standard and then completed his class 12th exam in 2008 from “Shiv Jyoti” School in Kota Rajasthan where he also prepared for IIT-JEE. He then cracked the exam and done graduation in “B.Tech. Civil Engineering” from “IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kharagpur”, West Bengal, India (2008-2012 Batch).
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Jeetu is also a popular social media personality with over 225K followers on his official Instagram (@jitendrak1) and around 40K followers on his official twitter (@Farjigulzar).
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He started doing mimicry of his teachers while he studied in Kota and from there he brushed up his observation skill and mimicking of people’s mannerism and tone.
In college, during a ragging session, his seniors pushed him to perform an ad-lib English elocution act to deliver actor “Al Pacino’s” lines from “The Scent of a Women” movie. Though he struggled with his English, coming from a Hindi medium school, his attempted performance was well received.
Consequently, his seniors referred him to the “Hindi dramatic society” where he finally met his senior “Biswapati Sarkar”, who currently is the Creative Director at The Viral Fever (TVF). He did 2 month internship as research assistant at “King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi”, bankok Thailand in 2011.
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Arunabh Kumar founder of TVF and alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur came to college and offered him a full time paid job at TVF in Mumbai. He worked 4 months there as the associative creative head from May 2012- Aug 2012. He shot a couples of videos during his tenure and then left for Bangalore looking for job.
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Jitendra Kumar got a job as civil engineer at Shimizu Corporation Bangalore where he worked for 7-8 months. He then quit the job and applied for NSD (National School of Drama) but didn’t get admission.
He later came back to Mumbai and to pursue acting and also did tutoring to cover his expenses. In 2014, he played the role of “Laxman” in feature film “Shuruaat Ka Interval”. “Biswapati was one of the writer in the film.
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In 2014, got a breakthrough role of “Prateek (Gittu)” in season 1 episode 4 of TVF superhit series “Permanent Roommates”.
In Feb 2014, Jeetu was featured in a TVF’s episode titled “Bollywood Aam Aadmi Party: Arnub’s Qtiyapa”, where he mimicked Delhi CM “Arvind Kejriwal”.The video got viral with 7.5 million views on YouTube and Jeetu’s grasp of mannerism and comic timing was praised by fans.
In February 2015, he reprised his role of “Arjun Kejriwal” for TVF’s “Barely Speaking with Arnub” episode 3 with “Arvind Kejriwal” sitting next to him. He later reprised the same role for TSP’s “Fukrapanti | If Politicians Were Teachers” in 2017 and TVF’s “Celebrities in College – Arwind Kejriwal” in 2018.
Jitendra Kumar Career Details
| YouTube Video | Character | Views |
| TVF – Kota Factory | Jeetu Bhaiya | 5 Million |
| TVF – Tripling (Season 2) | Actor playing Chitwan in movie | |
| TVF – Ab Khel Ke Dikha ft. Virat Kohli | Player | 754K |
| TVF – Tuition Qtiyapa: Hum Fees De Chuke Sanam | Ajey Devgan Mimic | 4.4 M |
| TVF – Celebrities in College – Arwind Kejriwal | Arwind Kejriwal Mimic | 4.1 M |
| TVF – Truth Or Dare with College Crush | Jeetu | 4.2 M |
| LIVE with TVF Family | Himself | 152K |
| TVF – Mummy Papa Ka Second Honeymoon | Jeetu | 2.5 M |
| TVF – Tech Conversations With Dad – Data Ki Chori | Jeetu | 3.2 M |
| TVF – Shaadi Ka Bhoot | Pintu | 2.8 M |
| TVF Bachelors season 2 – Bahubully | Jeetu & Bahubully | 13.8 M |
| TVF Bachelors | S02E03 – Bachelors vs Cooking | Jeetu | 8.2 M |
| TVF Bachelors | S02E02 – Bachelors vs Month End | Jeetu | 4.2 M |
| TVF Bachelors | S02E01 – Bachelors vs Jobs | Jeetu | 7 Million |
| TVF – An Unnamed Medical Report | Jeetu | 3.3 M |
| TVF’s Long Distance Celebrations – Diwali Qtiyapa | Jeetu | 2.3 M |
| TVF PLAY – Tech Conversations With Dad : Generation Gap Qtiyapa | Jeetu | – |
| TVF – From Papa With Love – Birthday Gift Qtiyapa | Jeetu | 2.9 M |
| TVF PLAY – How To Train Your Dad: Booking A Cab | Jeetu | – |
| TVF – Tech Conversations With Dad : Cheap & Best Internet Plan | Jeetu | 2.5 M |
| TVF PLAY – How to Train Your Dad : Online Shopping | Jeetu | – |
| TVF PLAY – Tech Conversations with my Dad E04 – ‘Yeh Application Milega Kahan Se’ | Jeetu | – |
| TVF PLAY – Tech Conversations with my Dad E01 – ‘Twitter’ | Jeetu | – |
| TVF Connected Live with Jeetu 24X3 | As Himself | 500K |
| TVF – Main Fauji Banna Chahta Hoon | Jeetu | 2.3 M |
| Truth or Dare with TVF | As Himself | 554 K |
| TVF – A Day with HC Verma | Jeetu | 4.8 M |
| TVF PLAY – Bisht, Please! S01E06 – ‘Bisht Dhoondhe Easy Life’ | Girish Goyal | – |
| TVF PLAY – F.A.T.H.E.R.S E04 – ‘Papa Chale Disco’ | Jeetu | – |
| TVF – How To Train Your Son – Arranged Dating | Jeetu | 4.1 M |
| TVF – A Day with RD Sharma | Jeetu | 7.4 M |
| TVF/Screenpatti – Daaru Pe Charcha Ep.03 ft. Vijay Maal Legaya | Jeetu | 2.8 M |
| TVF – Truth or Dare with Dad | Jeetu | 16 M |
| TVF – Eat, Pray… Swipe | Tinder Qtiyapa | Harish Chandra | 2 M |
| TVF – Bhaag Jeetu Bhaag – Ft. Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan | Jeetu | 4.2 M |
| TVF – Rajasthani Cowboys | – | 2.4 M |
| TVF – Bollywood Cliché Qtiyapa Ft. Ayushmann Khurrana | – | 1.7 M |
| TVF PLAY – Permanent Roommates S01E04 – The Bridegroom | Pathik (Gittu) | – |
| TVF PLAY – Pitchers | Jitendra | – |
| TVF – Arnub Vs. Free Speech : News-hour Qtiyapa | Vietnam Siddiqui | 2.8 M |
| TVF – A Decade Long Daily Soap (ft. Ekthi Kapoor) | Writer | 2.8 M |
| TVF – Attack of the Zombehens ( Ek thi Behen 2) | Rakhi Qtiyapa | – | 725 K |
| TVF – Qissa Missing Dimaag Ka : C.I.D Qtiyapa | Dr. Salunkhe | 8.3 M |
| TVF – Mother’s Day Special – The Life of Aai | – | 1.7 M |
| TVF – Bollywood Aam Aadmi Party : Arnub’s Qtiyapa | Arwind Kejriwal Mimic | 7.5 M |
| TVF – Bhagwaan Zameen Par : A Tribute to Sachin | IrFan Awasthi | 1.6 M |
| TVF – Lage Raho Shetty Bhai : Blockbuster Qtiyapa | Producer’s Son | 3 M |
| TVF – Ek Thi Behen – Rakhi Qtiyapa | Sameer | 3 M |
| TVF – CHAMPU : Education Qtiyapa | Anuchit Singh Dhillon a.k.a. Bad Boy | 1.1 M |
| TVF – C-Men : Men Who Understand Women | Rahul | 1.1 M |
| Emotional Atya-Charge : Recharge Q-tiyapa | – | |
| TSP – Baal pe Charcha | Primetime with Rabish | As Himself | 1.6 M |
| TSP – When you date a UPSC aspirant | Sudheer | 8 M |
| RVCJ – When You Date A Baniya | Jeetu | 2 M |
| TSP – If Politicians Were Doctors | Arwind Kejriwal Mimic | 3.2 M |
| TSP – If Politicians Were Teachers | Arjun Kejriwal | 4 M |
| TSP – Daaru Pe Charcha Ep. 01 ft. FTII’s New Chairman Gaj Ji | Jitendra | 2.4 M |
| Girliyapa – Mr. & Mrs. E06 | JODI NO.1 | Viren | 1.9 M |
| Girliyapa – Love is Love | YouTube Creators For Change | Brother | 1.8 M |
| Girliyapa – Main Actor Banna Chahti Hoon | Director | 2.5 M |
| Girliyapa’s Break Ups and Downs ft. Alia Bhatt & Jeetu | Raghav | – |
| TVF – Munna Jazbaati: The Q-tiya Intern | Munna Jazbaati | – |
| MX PLAYER ORIGINAL – ImMATURE episode 2 (Being HUMAyuN) | Drama Teacher / Pradeep Kumar | – |
| Girliyapa – PA-GALS – S02E01 | Mamta Ki New Roomie | Random Dude | 2.9 M |
His character “Jeetu” and his dialogue “Gunday nahi, entrepreneur hain be***chod!” became an instant favourite of the youth from the 2015 web series “TVF Pitchers”. It is India’s one of the most successful web-series with a whopping 9.2/10 IMDB rating with 43,439 votes.
He and actress “Akanksha Thakur” share a very good on screen chemistry and often play the role of couple, girlfriend/boyfriend and wife. (The videos shown in italics featured both Jeetu and Akanksha). He also shares a good rapport with “Badhai Ho” fame “Gajraj Rao”, who played the role of his father in almost all his videos.
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Apart from web series and TV ads Jitendra Kumar has also worked in various movies. In 2014, he played the role of “Laxman” in a drama anthology film titled “Shuruaat Ka Interval”. Jeetu’s most recent released movie is the 2019 comedy drama film titled “Gone Kesh” where he played the male lead role opposite actress “Shweta Tripathi”. His upcoming movie is Yoodlee Films romcom titled “Chaman Bahar”, where he will play the role of “Billu”, a young paanwala, who falls in love with a pretty schoolgirl, played by “Ritika Badiani” who lives in a house opposite his shop.