Born in Bhojpur district of Bihar and raised in Dhanbad, Vinay Pathak attended Vikas Vidyalaya in Ranchi before completing his degree at Allahabad University. He then pursued a BFA at Stony Brook University in New York, where Farley Richmond mentored him and encouraged a return to Hindi theatre and cinema in 1995.
After returning to India, he appeared in the television series Hip Hip Hurray as…
