section_path: Early life
section_name: Early life
paragraph_text: Early life
  
  Mukul Dev was born in New Delhi into a Punjabi family with roots in a village near Jalandhar and grew up in Delhi. He was the younger brother of actor and model Rahul Dev. They also have a sister. He studied at St. Columba's School, Delhi.
  
  Mukul stated that he was exposed to Afghan culture through his father, who could speak Pashto and Persian. His father, Hari Dev, a former Assistant Commissioner of Police, died on April 17, 2019, at the age of 91.
  
  In class 8, he won his first pay cheque when he impersonated Michael Jackson for a dance show organized by Doordarshan. He was a trained pilot from the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi.
  
  Mukul Dev was born in New Delhi into a Punjabi family with roots in a village near Jalandhar and grew up in Delhi. He was the younger brother of actor and model Rahul Dev. They also have a sister. He studied at St. Columba's School, Delhi.
  
  Mukul stated that he was exposed to Afghan culture through his father, who could speak Pashto and Persian. His father, Hari Dev, a former Assistant Commissioner of Police, died on April 17, 2019, at the age of 91.
  
  In class 8, he won his first pay cheque when he impersonated Michael Jackson for a dance show organized by Doordarshan. He was a trained pilot from the Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi.