Himanshu Sharma | |
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Born |
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh |
20 August 1980
Occupation | Film writer, Co- Producer & Associate director |
Years active | 2007–present |
Parent(s) | Jiwan sharma (Father) Shama sharma (Mother) |
Himanshu Sharma (born 20 August 1980) is a National Film Awards winning Indian screenwriter, who works in Bollywood (Hindi films). He is most known as the writer of the Tanu Weds Manu series (2011 & 2015) & Raanjhanaa(2013), all these 3 movies were highly successful, his writing in all his movies were praised.
Himanshu Sharma was born to Jiwan Sharma, a U.P. Tourism officer and Shama Sharma in Lucknow, he did his schooling from Spring Dale College, Lucknow and later moved to Kirori Mal College, Delhi for higher education, where he started taking part in theatre. In an Interview with a TV channel he revealed that he wanted to be an IAS during college days.
He started his career with NDTV as script writer for a health show. Subsequently, he moved to Mumbai to pursue his career in serials and movies. He wrote script for many TV serials like Kkusum on Sony TV and Bhootwala serial from SAB TV. He made his film writing debut with movie Strangers with Nandana Sen and Jimmy Shergil produced by Raj Kundra. He is the member of International Film And Television Club of AAFT. Himanshu sharma is also part of Colour yellow picture company which co-produce Raanjhanaa & Tanu Weds Manu: Returns
In an interview with TV channel he stated that he is soon going to Debut as Director.
Currently he lives in Mumbai. His parents live in Indira Nagar, Lucknow. He has one sister and one brother.
2016 || Happy Bhag Jayegi || Post-production
|2016 || Nil Battey Sannata ||