Rajkumar Santoshi
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Santoshi in 2011
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Rajkumar Santoshi Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Film director, producer, screenwriter |
Rajkumar Santoshi is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter of Hindi films.
He is the son of producer-director P.L. Santoshi and his second wife. Rajkumar was born in Chennai And currently lives with his wife Manila and children Ram and Tanisha.
Santoshi started his career as an assistant director and worked with Govind Nihalani during the filming of Ardh Satya (1982).
He is known to be one of the most versatile directors as he has directed films of all genres except sci-fi.
Santoshi made his directorial debut in 1990, with the action flick Ghayal. Starring Sunny Deol and Meenakshi Sheshadri in lead roles, the film tells the story of a person in search of his missing brother and the events that follow. It was critically and commercially successful, and earned him the Filmfare Award for Best Director, Best film, and Best screenplay.Ghayal also won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Santoshi's followup was Damini (1993), a film dealing with issues like status of women in our society and the perspective of people towards women. He won another Filmfare best director award for it.
After making two back to back serious films like Ghayal and Damini, Santoshi wanted to make a light film. He then wrote and directed the ensemble comedy, Andaz Apna Apna (1994). The film failed commercially at the time of its release, but is now considered a cult classic. Santoshi received the Filmfare Award for Best Director nomination for it.
Santoshi then went on to make Barsaat (1995), a romantic action drama, which marked the debut of actor Bobby Deol. Ghatak: Lethal (1996), an action film, marked his third collaboration with Sheshadri and Deol. China Gate (1998), an action film inspired from Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954), was his next release. It follows the story of a village that hire a group of veterans to combat bandits who terrorise them.
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