Parth Laghate known as Parth Samthaan is an Indian television actor, who is best known for his role as Manik Malhotra in popular youth show Kaisi Yeh Yaariyan (2014) and Anurag Basu in Kasautii Zindagii Kay (2018). He has also appeared in Channel V's Best Friends Forever? and episodic series like Life OK's Savdhaan India, MTV India's crime series MTV Webbed (2013), UTV Bindass's Yeh Hai Aashiqui (2013), and Zing's Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya (2014).He started off his acting career by featuring in Gumrah: End of Innocence as Siddharth and Best Friends Forever? as Prithvi Sanyal in the same year.