Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#28636
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Rohan Chand works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Rohan Chand appears in 6 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Rohan. Lone Survivor is the clearest case: a film rated 7.4 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for adventure, drama, action. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Andy Serkis, Jake Kasdan, Lasse Hallström and others, Rohan Chand helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
Lone Survivor (2013) as Gulab's Young Son · The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) as Young Hassan · Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) as Kid at Bazaar
Career snapshot
Ranked #28636 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
6
2011–2018
Career length
7 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
7.4
Lone Survivor
Average Nutevio score
6.5
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
7.4
Lone Survivor
Most frequent director
Andy Serkis
1 film together
Longest collaboration
1×
With Andy Serkis
Most common genre
Comedy
4 titles
Average runtime
1h 48m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.2
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2010s
6.5 average MV
The 2010s are where the work and the material meet. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, The Hundred-Foot Journey — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2010s
6.5
Across 6 catalogue films in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2010s
6.5
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2010s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, The Hundred-Foot Journey.
Most productive era
2010s
6 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2010s |
|---|---|
| Drama | 7.13 films |
| Action | 7.12 films |
| Comedy | 6.24 films |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2011Jack and Jill
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Gary Sadelstein.
Highest rated performance
2013Lone Survivor
7.4 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer.
Career peak
Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2018Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
The current state of the argument, as Mowgli.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
6 of 6 films
as Gulab's Young Son
Directed by Peter Berg
as Chaitanya Chopra
Directed by Jason Bateman
as Kid at Bazaar
Directed by Jake Kasdan
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Young Hassan
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Performance score7.4
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Young Hassan gives Rohan Chand a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Mowgli
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
Performance score7.2
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Mowgli is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Gulab's Young Son
Lone Survivor (2013)
Performance score7.2
Lone Survivor asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Gulab's Young Son is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Chaitanya Chopra
Bad Words (2013)
Performance score6.9
Bad Words asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Chaitanya Chopra is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Young Hassan
Start here. The Hundred-Foot Journey is the clearest statement of what Rohan Chand does — accessible, 122 minutes, and rated 7.3 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Rohan at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Lone Survivor (2013)
Keeps the drama register of The Hundred-Foot Journey but asks for a colder reading of it.
Bad Words (2013)
A deliberate change of key after Lone Survivor — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
Keeps the comedy register of Bad Words but asks for a colder reading of it.
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)
Keeps the adventure register of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle but asks for a colder reading of it.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Dennis Dugan
Director
1 film together
Notably Jack and Jill
Jason Bateman
Director
1 film together
Notably Bad Words
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together
Notably Lone Survivor
Lasse Hallström
Director
1 film together
Notably The Hundred-Foot Journey
Jake Kasdan
Director
1 film together
Notably Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Andy Serkis
Director
1 film together
Notably Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Peter Berg
Director
1 film together · 7.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Lone SurvivorLasse Hallström
Director
1 film together · 7.3 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The Hundred-Foot JourneyJake Kasdan
Director
1 film together · 6.8 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jumanji: Welcome to the JungleAndy Serkis
Director
1 film together · 6.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Mowgli: Legend of the JungleJason Bateman
Director
1 film together · 6.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Bad WordsDennis Dugan
Director
1 film together · 4.4 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Jack and JillSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Lone Survivor
as Gulab's Young Son
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
as Mowgli
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
Lone Survivor
as Gulab's Young Son
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Lone Survivor
as Gulab's Young Son
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
The Hundred-Foot Journey
as Young Hassan
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Rohan Chand has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Comedy Legend
Awarded
4 catalogue titles in comedy, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
Lone Survivor
as Gulab's Young Son
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Lone Survivor
as Gulab's Young Son
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
as Mowgli
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
as Kid at Bazaar
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
as Kid at Bazaar
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
as Kid at Bazaar
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Lone Survivor
as Gulab's Young Son
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Hundred-Foot Journey
as Young Hassan
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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