Milan Luthria

Milan Luthria
Milan Luthria & his wife
Born	India
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1999 – present
Known for	Directing the films Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010) & The Dirty Picture (2011)
Parent(s)	Raj Khosla (father)
Relatives	See Bhatt family

Milan Luthria is an Indian film director who works in Hindi films. He is best known as the director of Ajay Devgan's Once Upon a Time in Mumbai (2010). He is the nephew of producer and director Mahesh Bhatt.

Milan is the son of Arjun Luthria, who is the brother of Bollywood actor Sudhir. Milan's mother is a first cousin of directors Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt (their mother, Shirin Bhatt, was the younger sister of Milan's maternal grandmother).

Starting his career as an assistant director to Dharmesh Darshan for Lootere in 1993, Luthria made his directorial debut in 1999 with the action thriller film Kachche Dhaage. The film, released under the Tips Films banner, starred Ajay Devgan as a smuggler on the Rajasthan-Kashmir, Pakistan border and Saif Ali Khan, on the run from the Border Security Force, the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the border mafia. Luthria shot the film in Rajasthan and Switzerland. The film received a mixed reception. Although the photography of the film was praised with the scenic backdrop of the Rajasthani desert and the green valleys and snow-capped peaks of Switzerland, it was seen as a weaker film than that of Soldier, a film with similar theme which had been released the year before.

In 2002, Luthria once again worked with Devgan when he directed Chori Chori, also starring Rani Mukerji and Sonali Bendre. The film was initially scheduled for release in 2002 but during the filming the producer died and its release was delayed, eventually being released on 1 August 2003. The film received a mixed reception. Taran Adarsh, although remarking that Luthria "handled a few sequences with flourish", believed that despite an interesting storyline, the script was fundamentally flawed, "hackneyed" as he put it, believing that interest in it fizzled out by the second half of the film, becoming "sluggish" with its progression. However, Sukanya Verma described the film as "heartwarming", remarking that "like most feel good romances, Chori Chori is about letting the heart rule the head."