Vas Saranga

Actor

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Biography

Vas Saranga is a Canadian film and television actor, editor, writer and director, best known for his leading role as Reese in the live-action animation hybrid "Mudpit". Already a filmmaker of and an actor in several student short films during high school, he later attended York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Filmography

8.3

I Will Find You

Dev Chopra

Wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his own son, a father sets out on a desperate rescue mission after learning the boy may still be alive.

8.2

Mayday

Vishnu Som

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on cockpit voice recorders and air traffic control transcripts, as well as eyewitnesses recounts and interviews with aviation experts.

7.5

The Strain

Hassan

A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers, wage war for the fate of humanity itself.

7.8

Orphan Black

Amar

A streetwise hustler is pulled into a compelling conspiracy after witnessing the suicide of a girl who looks just like her.

7.1

Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent

Jason Roy

An elite squad of detectives investigate high-profile crime and corruption in metro Toronto.

7.5

Transplant

Navin Kutty

Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning a coveted residency in the Emergency Department of one of the best hospitals in Toronto, York Memorial.

6.6

Salvation

Dexter

An MIT grad student and a tech superstar bring a low-level Pentagon official a staggering discovery that an asteroid is just six months away from colliding with Earth.

5.6

American Pie Presents: Beta House

Bandhu (as Vasanth Saranga)

Erik, Ryan, and Cooze start college and pledge the Beta House fraternity, presided over by none other than legendary Dwight Stifler. But chaos ensues when a fraternity of geeks threatens to stop the debauchery and the Betas have to make a stand for their right to party.

N/A

Save Me

Faraj

Save Me drops us into random lives, mid-sentence. We get to know people through storylines that unravel with humour and pathos and a built-in ticking time bomb - that one of them at some point will be blindsided by a medical emergency. And all of it is rooted in the on-going stories of our regular cast of EMTs who come to the rescue.

5.5

Firestarter

Agent Jules

For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.

6.6

Little Italy

Jogi

Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?

6.6

The Heiress and the Handyman

Chad

After losing her fortune, an heiress moves to a rural farm where she mistakes her handsome neighbour for the handyman. To live up to her family's legacy, he helps her compete at the county fair.

N/A

Mudpit

Dodge / Reese

Four teens who are in a band called Mudpit decide to compete in a contest where the prize is a recording contract. They are drawn into a world that is part animated, part reality.

5.3

Bloodwork

Binal

A couple of college students decide to sign up for pharmaceutical testing of a new allergy drug to make some extra cash for their spring break trip. They quickly discover their two week stay will not be as easy as they first believed and fight to save themselves from the grips of the facility.

6.1

From Friend to Fiancé

Mike

When Ted gets engaged to the high school mean girl and asks Jess, his childhood best friend, to plan their wedding, things get complicated. Her true feelings for Ted keep getting in the way.

5.4

Baking All the Way

When Julia Wilson, an accomplished pastry chef from Chicago, heads to a small town bakery famous for their gingerbread to complete her Christmas cookbook curated with recipes from across the country, she finds herself at odds with Kris Thompson, the bakery's charming but private owner, who is ambivalent about sharing his secret recipe.

6.0

The Clue to Love

Greg

Ambitious journalist Audrey Harper heads to Hope Cove to write an article on the town’s local newspaper – if she does well, she’s up for a big promotion. While there, she meets the charming and handsome Editor in Chief Morgan Cooper, who helps her as she uncovers the true identity of the paper’s beloved love advice columnist Ask Aunt Hope, famous in the town for healing broken hearts.

5.5

Home for Harvest

Mr. Peters

A travel writer is surprised to be sent back to the home town she left, heartbroken, years before. She meets a new man, and also her ex.

5.3

Stealing School

Russ Kasdan

April Chen, a Chinese-Canadian tech prodigy, is accused of plagiarism by an unrelenting teaching assistant and must fight to prove her innocence in a secret trial held before an academic tribunal.

5.5

Mistletoe Match

Alfie

This Christmas, Olivia Hayes goes undercover to provide her readers with an in-depth (and cynical!) look at the hugely successful annual Secret Santa for Singles event. There, she meets single dad and handsome widower Thomas who is just as skeptical about the programme as she is. Sparks soon fly, but with a once in a lifetime promotion on the line, will she risk losing it all for the romance she never saw coming?