Abbas Tyrewala
Occupation	director, storywriter, screenwriter, dialogue writer
Years active	2001- present
Spouse	Pakhi Tyrewala

Abbas Tyrewala is an Hindi film storywriter, screenwriter, dialogue writer and director.^[1] After making his mark as a screenwriter and dialogue writer in early 2000s, with award winning films like Maqbool (2003), Munnabhai M.B.B.S. (2003), he made his debut as a director with a breezy romantic comedy, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (2008).

Biography[link]

Born and brought up in Mumbai, Abbas joined St. Xavier's College, Mumbai for graduation, where he started working on plays and soon started writing advertising jingles, but he left without securing a degree to join Ogilvy & Mather PR agency, where he worked for a year; he then joined television production company Cinevista as creative consultant, which he left in 2000, to become a full-time writer. He entered the film industry as a lyricist, writing for film like, Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar (2000), and Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega (2001), till he got his break with Santosh Sivan's Asoka (2001) as a dialogue writer. He is married to Pakhi who had her debut in his film Jhoota Hi Sahi opposite John Abraham. Abbas hails from a modest background. Born to a poor Muslim family. Abbas's father owed a tyre repair shop, his mother a simple house wife was most keen to get Tyrewala a good education and hoped that he would achieve all that he did.

Filmography[link]

• Asoka (2001) (Dialogue)
• Leela (2002) (lyrics)
• Chupke Se (2003) (writer)
• Maqbool (2003) (screenplay & actor)
• Darna Mana Hai (2003) (writer, screenplay & dialogue)
• Munnabhai M.B.B.S. (2003) (dialogue)
• Paanch (2003) (lyrics)
• Main Hoon Na (2004) (dialogue & screenplay)
• Shikhar (2005) (screenplay)
• Salaam Namaste (2005) (story & dialogue)
• Vaada (2005) (dialogue)
• De Taali (2008) (written by)
• Welcome (2007) (dialogue)
• Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (2008) (director & screenwriter)
• Jhoota Hi Sahi (2010) (Director, Screenplay & Lyrics)
• Jaane Kya Tune Kahi (2011) (Director & lyricist)

Awards[link]

• 2004: Filmfare Best Dialogue Award: Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
• 2004: Zee Cine Award for Best Dialogue: Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
• 2005: GIFA Best Screenplay Award: Maqbool
• 2005: Zee Cine Award for Best Screenplay: Maqbool (with Vishal Bharadwaj) ^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Abbas Tyrewala at the Internet Movie Database
• Abbas Tyrewala at Allmovie
• Abbas Tyrewala: a one-man show Rediff.com.

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Shekhar Suman
Shekhar Suman at Jhalak Dikhla Jaa Bash
Born	Patna, Bihar, India
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1985 - present

Shekhar Suman is an Indian film actor and a television personality. He has also been featured as a singer on a music album. Suman married Alka Kapur on May 4, 1984, and has a son, Adhyayan Suman a Bollywood film actor.

Career[link]

He started his Bollywood career with the film Utsav opposite Rekha in September 1985.

On television, he was featured in the shows Dekh Bhai Dekh, Reporter, Wah janab,'chote babu' Andaz,Amar Prem 'aaha', 'main' 'vilayati babu'Movers n Shakers, Simply Shekhar and Carry On shekhar. The last three were primarily modelled on and adapted from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He hosted Film Deewane The Great Indian Comedy Show on Star One until February 2006 and appeared in some episodes of Dial One aur Jeeto on Sahara TV. He also did quiz shows including Nilaam Ghar on Zee Television and He-Man on Star One. He also hosted a show on Star News, Poll Khol for five years, which was a satire on the Indian politics, Comedy Circus I, Comedy ka maha muqabala, and Perfect Bride.

He was one of the judges of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge along with Navjot Singh Sidhu. This programme, a stand-up comedy contest, was the first of its kind on Indian television. However, Shekhar quit after the end of the third season due to differences with Sidhu. He became the judge of a rival comedy program Comedy Circus. He also hosted the show Jab Khelo SAB Khelo on SAB TV. He can be seen on Sony TV as a participant in Jhalak Dikhlaja.

He made his singing debut with a music album named Kuch Khwaab Aise, a collection of eight love ballads whose music was composed by Aadesh Srivastava and lyrics written by Shyam Raj. In December 2009, he appeared as a participant on a reality TV series, Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka based on past life regression.^[1][2][3]

He has also appeared as a judge in the reality TV show Lux Perfect Bride.

Filmography[link]

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Television[link]

Film[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Shekhar Suman at the Internet Movie Database

Vinay Shukla is an Indian film writer and director, who is producer of Hindi film Godmother, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi in 1999.

Profile[link]

Vinay Shukla has been an active scriptwriter and director of Hindi films over the last three decades. His films have had the distinction of not only succeeding at the box office but also garnering critical acclaim and prestigious awards. His most well-known film, Godmother - clearly established him as a craftsman capable of combining the nuances of good cinema within the popular narrative form.

History[link]

His association with performance arts began at the age of nine when he began participating in radio plays at Akashwani, Jaipur. Thereafter, his creative urges led him into theater at the college and university levels. It was only expected that these experiences would eventually draw him towards the most powerful medium of our times- cinema. So, he joined the Film and Television Institute at Pune. The high quality training and exposure to the best in world cinema at the institute set the ground for a deep and life-long interest in not just film-making in general, but more particularly the unique and vibrant narrative form that is at the center of popular Indian films. He passed out with a Gold Medal and immediately plunged into the first step of film-making - scriptwriting.

Twenty five odd films followed in regular succession. Vinay Shukla kept experimenting with different styles of story conception, screenplay formats and dialog construction in regular mainstream fare (Satyamev Jayate, Ram Jaane, Virasat...) as well as off-the-beaten-track subjects (Parinay, Tarang...) achieving success and/or acclaim along the way as well as popular awards.

Simultaneously, his interest in traditional performing arts and their narrative peculiarities continued to enrich his own understanding of the elements that the Indian film narrative form had borrowed from each. He was increasingly convinced that an awareness of popular Indian cinema among Bollywood's writers and directors could lead to much more imaginative, engaging and entertaining forms that could also allow serious issues and themes to be tackled in the screenplay.

This conviction led to the most definitive example of this form in Vinay Shukla's career until now - Godmother. The film had critics raving for a long time. It also received six National Awards, including for Best Feature Film in Hindi and Best Actress and a Filmfare Award.

Current status[link]

Vinay Shukla lectures at the Screenplay Writing course at the FTII, Pune, which he helped set up in 2004, and also at the Whistling Woods, Mumbai. He has conducted scriptwriting workshops in Lucknow, at the Satyajit Ray Film Institute, Kolkata and was a mentor at MAISHA (Mira Nair's organisation), Kampala in 2006.

His most recent written & directed film Mirch released in December, 2010. The film revolves around four short stories subjected on issues of women emancipation, based on a story from the Panchatantra which travels in its various versions to modern times. Konkona Sen Sharma and Raima Sen star in two of these short stories. The film premiered at the I View Film Festival on September 26, 2010, where it won the Popular Choice Award for Outstanding Cinema.

Selected filmography[link]

• Mirch (2010)
• Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe (2002)
• Godmother (1999)
• Ram-Jaane (1995)
• Sameera (1981)
• Hum Paanch (1980)

External links[link]

• Vinay Shukla at the Internet Movie Database

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Sagar Ballary
Born	1975(age 36) Mumbai
Nationality	India
Occupation	Film director Story Writer Screenplay
Known for	Bheja Fry Bheja Fry 2

Sagar Ballary, (born 1975) is an Indian film director, most known for his films, like Bheja Fry (2007) and Bheja Fry 2 (2011).

Early life and career[link]

Born in Mumbai, India in 1975, Sagar Ballary graduated in English Literature from Ruia College, Mumbai before traveling to Kolkata to pursue a diploma in Direction & Screenplay Writing from the Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute (1997-2001). He scripted and directed a 34 min diploma film “Kalu Ravi”, a Bengali film in his final year at SRFTI which was selected for the national competition at the Mumbai International Film Festival (MIFF 2003).

Career[link]

In 2002, Ballary, after completing his diploma Sagar returned to Mumbai and worked as the Chief Assistant Director on the feature “Raghu Romeo” (Dir: Rajat Kapoor). Then he began the development of the script of a feature film “Ding Dong – Baby Sing a Song” which later was called as “Bheja-Fry”. In the years 2005 to 2007, Sagar worked with Rajat Kapoor in the capacity of an Associate Director for the films “Mixed Doubles” and “Mithya” between which he made his own feature film, “Bheja Fry”.

He is also the Executive Producer & Director of a feature film, titled as “Kaccha Limboo” for the Sahara One Motion Pictures banner. The film released in February 2011. Soon after, his next film “Bheja Fry 2” released in June 2011. Currently he is busy with the post-production of his next film “Hum Tum Shabana” for Horseshoe Pictures with Shreyas Talpade, Tusshar Kapoor and Minnisha Lamba in lead which is set to release in September 2011.^[1]

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References[link]