IMDb:https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0440604/
Date of Birth:10 September 1972, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Trademarks:Frequently casts the actor Kay Kay Menon who is a friend in personal life. (e.g. Paanch, Black Friday, Gulaal)) Frequently uses music composed by Amit Trivedi (e.g. Dev.D (2009), Aamir (2008) and in his tv miniseries 'Rajuben' in the show 'Specials @ 10' too) Known for his extensive use of lighting and colour-effect filters to enhance mood or dramatic effects in his films. Frequently collaborates with Raj Singh Chaudhary, Vikramaditya Motwane, Aarti Bajaj and Vishal Bhardwaj in his creative team for making his movies Frequently casts the actor Aditya Srivastava in important roles for his films (Paanch, Black Friday, Gulaal) Frequently his movies have themes of drug and alchohol abuse, excessive smoking, teenage angst, clinical depression, emotional abuse, extreme rage and frustration, arrogance, and above all self destruction. These qualities are found in his films due to their reflections in his personal life from time to time. Most of his movies deal with very realistic scenarios and take excerpts from the scandals seen in newspapers in day to day life (eg the Joshi-Abhayankar Pune murder case reference in Paanch (2003), the 1993 Mumbai blasts in Black Friday (2004), the black BMW accident and MMS scandal in Dev.D (2009)) Frequent usage of snorricam and handheld camera Portrayal of surrealistic scenes Frequent portrayal of talented and ambitious characters spending their youth alienated from the society and getting wasted in the prime of their lives in sex, drugs and alcohol (Paanch, Gulaal, Dev.D) Extensive use of L cut in transformations.
What on earth can a rock star, a migrant laborer, a doctor and a cop possibly have in common? Simple, Punjab! 4 lives, 1 connection - 'Udta Punjab' takes you on a trip like never before. Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor, Alia Bhatt and Diljit Dosanjh play characters from different walks of life, fighting the menace of drugs in their own way. The film journeys into the artificial highs and the real lows that they face while treading the paths fraught with mortal dangers. But above all, Udta Punjab is about the famed Punjabi spirit, that despite being fully down, has the audacity of looking you in the eye and saying - Drugs di maa di.
Set in present day Mumbai the story follows the life of a serial killer Ramanna who is inspired by an infamous serial killer from the 1960s Raman Raghav. His strange obsession with Raghavan, a young Cop keeps growing as he closely follows him without his knowledge and often creates situations where both of them come face to face.
Akira lives in a small town India her father had taught her to fight for rights of women at very young age she is put in remand home for an accidental crime14 years later Akira and her mother shift to Mumbai at her brother's place and she takes admission in Holy Cross College and starts living in hostel where she is harassed by fellow students but Akira fights back,Acp Rane is a corrupt cop who along with his fellow officers kills a person on Panvel highway after they found huge sum of money in his car, Maya a keep of Rane records his phone call to blackmail him but her handy cam gets stolen by a student of Holy Cross College who blackmails him,Rane's fellow officers keep and eye on the college students arrests Akira thinking she has the recorded video, while Rane's man are about to kill Akira and the two men whom Maya had shown Rane's video,Rane calls his colleague Rajeshwar and Manek asking them to leave Akira as they have caught wrong female,Rane then tells Manek to kill Akira.
Raju Bhambhani is a young man from Ahmedabad. His life changes for worse when his boss and son of a famous industrialist, Tanmay accuses him for a hit and run case. As Raju sets out to prove his innocence, police tries to set facts asunder from fiction.