Varun Grover (writer)
| Varun Grover | |
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| Born |
26 January 1980 Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh, India |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi |
| Occupation | Screenplay writer, lyricist, director |
| Years active | 2004–present |
Varun Grover (born 26 January 1980) is an Indian comedian, screenwriter and lyricist. He won the award for Best Lyricist at the 63rd National Film Awards (India) 2015-16.
Grover was born in Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh, to a school-teacher mother and army engineer father. He spent his initial years in Sundernagar and Dehradun, Uttarakhand, before moving to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh for his adolescent years. He went on to graduate in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, BHU in 2003.
After briefly working as a software consultant in Pune, he moved to Mumbai in 2004 to become a writer. In 2005 he was one of six staff writers with the TV series The Great Indian Comedy Show. He later moved into stand-up comedy, and works as lyrics writer and screenplay writer for the Hindi film industry.
He speaks affectionately of the deep impact most mainstream films of the 1990s had on him. He was intensely moved by Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, Rajshri Productions superhit musical family drama of 1994 (starring Madhuri Dixit and Salman Khan).
"I watched Renuka Shahane die in the film on a Friday. I waited with bated breath until Sunday morning to catch her on Surabhi, the cultural magazine show on Doorsdarshan which she hosted then. When I finally saw her alive, I had tears in my eyes," he recalled.
Grover who grew up in Himachal Pradesh, Dehradun and Lucknow, wrote poetry for friends and for children’s magazines. Later, at BHU, he started scripting plays that the college theatre team took to the national youth festivals. "I’d moved from writing for my diary to writing for stage. It was the first time I felt I had the confidence to write professionally," he said.
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