seen in Akarsh Khurana's comedy film, High Jack, where he played a hijacker, Vinit. He portrayed the role of Najib ad-Dawlah in Ashutosh Gowariker's 2019 period film Panipat starring Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Kapoor and Kriti Sanon. Television and web-series His first major TV appearance was Lagegi on UTV's Bindass channel in 2007. The show was later renamed Hass ley India. In 2010, Mantra co-hosted dance reality show, Zara Nachke Dikha with Jennifer Winget on Star Plus. He played Doubting Dev in a show called Mystery Hunters India on Discovery Kids. As a stand-up comedian, he participated in successive Comedy Circus. As a wild card entry, Mantra participated in the sixth season of the celebrity dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa in June 2013. He was evicted from the show after two weeks. He co-hosted reality TV series, India's Got Talent with Bharti Singh in 2013-2014. Mantra played the main lead in the mythological drama series Narayan Narayan, which aired on Big Magic. His performance as Narad was well received by the audience. He also worked as Video Jockey for Channel V and has hosted several television programs, including First Day First Show, G-spot. He hosted the Pro Kabaddi League, a professional-level Kabaddi league for the past seven seasons. Later, in 2015, he hosted Family Fortunes, an Indian TV game show based on the American game show Family Feud, aired on Big Magic. He also appeared on Life OK's Har Mard Ka Dard in 2016. In 2017, he appeared on Balaji Telefilms's web series Boygiri, available on ALTBalaji. In 2020, he appeared in three ZEE5 web series —the rom-com series Phone a Friend, the sci-fi thriller series Bhanwar, the thriller series The Casino. He also acted in MX Player's crime thriller series High and SonyLIV original series Shrikant Bashir. Theatre As a theatre artist, Mantra has performed in more than 100 plays of Piya Behrupiya, a Hindi interpretation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night produced by Atul Kumar's The Company Theatre. He performed this two-hour musical drama first at the Globe Theatre in London as a part of the World Shakespeare Festival in May 2012, followed by the performances in Paris, Canada and the USA in 2016. In 2018, he was praised across India for his performance as Genie in Disney India's hit Broadway style musical Aladdin, which instantly became a crowd favourite. He has done several plays, including Sohaila Kapur's Ouch, Divya