Mohit Raina (born 14 August 1982) is an Indian film and television actor. He started his acting career with a science fiction show Antariksh (2004) and later went on to play a role in Don Muthu Swami (2008). He is best known for the lead role of the Hindu god Shiva in the television series, Devon Ke Dev – Mahadev and Mahabharat, prior to which he had acted in television soap operas including Chehra (2009) and Ganga Kii Dheej (2010). In 2019, he made his Bollywood debut with the action thriller Uri - The Surgical Strike, which ranks among the highest-grossing Indian films of all time.
Mohit was born on 14 August 1982 and raised in Jammu, where he obtained a degree in commerce. He moved to Mumbai to begin a career in modeling. He hoped that modelling would provide him with a route into acting work and lost 29 kilograms (64 lb) from his teenage weight of 107 kilograms (236 lb) so that he could participate in the 2005 Grasim Mister India modelling contest. He was placed among the top five contestants in that competition.