Parth Samthaan is an Indian television actor and former model best known for his roles of Manik Malhotra in MTV India's Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan and as Prithvi Sanyal in Channel V's Best Friends Forever?. Parth Samthaan was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. He did his schooling from New Era High School,Panchgani and is pursuing his final year of graduation in architecture from L S Raheja School of Architecture. Parth has also done an acting course from Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute in Mumbai.