Rajkumar Santoshi

Rajkumar Santoshi is an Indian filmmaker who shot to fame with Sunny Deol Sunny Deol is a film actor, director and producer. >> Read More... ’s films. However, he had begun his career as an assistant to Govind Nihalani Born on 19 August 1940, Govind Nihalani hails from >> Read More... .  He learnt filmmaking aspect from Govind. Rajkumar has assisted Govind Nihalani in his five films (notable are Ardh Satya & Vijeta). 

Rajkumar Santhoshi was born to filmmaker P.L. Santoshi, who had given a break to actor Dev Anand Dev Anand would be nostalgically remembered by fil >> Read More... , music director O.P. Nayyar and even had encouraged playback singer Kishore Kumar Kishore Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who ha >> Read More... . His father was an assistant director for Raj Kapoor’s films Sargam and Barsaat Ki Raat. 

Rajkumar Santhoshi was born in Chennai from his father’s second marriage. When his father had moved to Chennai to direct Tamil films, he came across his mother and thus they got married. Since in those days bigamy was prevalent, his father did not divorce his first wife. Santhoshi grew up seeing films of M.G. Ramachandran and Vijay Anand Vijay Anand also known as ‘Goldie‘ is an Indian fi >> Read More... in Chennai (he considered his hometown then). Later on, their family moved to Mumbai and got settled there. Rajkumar quit his high-school studies (XI std) and assisted his father in filmmaking. After his father’s death, he took life seriously and assisted Robin Dharamraj for film ‘ Chakra Chakra is a television drama aired on ITN, the Ind >> Read More... ’. Thus, his film journey had begun. He then joined Vidhu Vinod Chopra Vidhu Vinod Chopra is a classic filmmaker, who has >> Read More... to do production work but left this job and joined Govind Nihalani as an assistant director. 

In 1990, Rajkumar received his recognition with his first film ’Ghayal’ (1990) where he took the credit of a writer and director. Initially, Santoshi wanted to cast Sunny or Kamal Haasan Kamal Haasan is the most versatile actor that Indi >> Read More... fo ’Ghayal’. But, he met Sunny Deol personally and when Sunny liked the whole story actor Dharmendra came forward to produce the film. After the success of ‘Ghayal’, Santoshi made a female-oriented film ‘ Damini Damini is an Indian Television serial broadcasted >> Read More... ’ (1993) which fetched Sunny Deol National Film award for best supporting actor. The film is also considered as Meenakshi Seshadri Meenakshi Seshadri was born as Shashikala Sheshadr >> Read More... ’s best film to date. Ghayal was remade in Tamil, Telugu and Oriya and the film depicted how a woman fights against society for justice. Santoshi received the best Filmfare Director Award for this film. In 1994, he brought Aamir Khan Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bolly >> Read More... and Salman Khan Salman Khan is a very famous Indian actor and a pr >> Read More... together for a film ‘Andaz Apna Apna’ which did not do well in box office.  In 1995, he introduced Dharmendra’s another son Booby Deol and Rajesh Khanna’s daughter Twinkle Khanna Twinkle Khanna made herdebut in Indian film indust >> Read More... in a film ‘Barsaat’ which received a mixed response. In 1996, he again directed Sunny Deol and Meenakshi Seshadri for a film ‘Ghatak’ which was supposed to be done by Kamal Haasan. But actor Haasan had withdrawn from the film for unknown reasons and Sunny had featured in the film. The film was a super hit, and it was the last film of Meenakshi Seshadri too. Later on, Rajkumar became co-producer for ‘Doli Saja Ke Rakhna’ starring Akshaye Khanna Akshaye Khanna is a popular Indian film actor. He >> Read More... and Jyothika. The film was directed by Priyadarshan. He also co-produced another film ‘ Jaanam Samjha Karo Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ which fared poorly at the box office. 

Later Rajkumar directed patriotic films like ‘ Pukar Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ which fetched Anil Kapoor Anil Kapoor was born on 24th December 1956 in Mumb >> Read More... the National Film Award for the best actor. In 2002, he made the best film of his career ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’ which was a biopic on freedom fighter, Bhagat Singh. The film fetched two National awards.

Rajkumar is also known for making a film ‘ Khakee Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ starring Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in A >> Read More... , which was a runaway hit. In 2013, he directed ‘Phata Poster Nikhla Hero’ featuring Shahid Kapoor Shahid Kapoor also identifies as the name Shahid K >> Read More... and Ileana D'Cruz, which received a mixed response. 

Rajkumar is married to Manila and has two children Ram and Tanisha. He is planning a film’ Fateh Singh Fateh Singh is a Canadian Indian rapper, singer, a >> Read More... ’ with Ajay Devgan Ajay Devgn is an Indian film actor. He is perhaps >> Read More... now.