Bollywood Director: Vishal Bhardwaj!!!

Bollywood Director: Vishal Bhardwaj!!! With just four films as director under his belt, Vishal Bharadwaj is perhaps the brightest spark in the Indian film industry.

Real Name:
Vishal Bhardwaj
Screen Name:
Vishal Bhardwaj
Born:
Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh
Family:
Spouse - Rekha
Early Years:
Soon after Vishal moved to Delhi from his hometown in UP, he was introduced to R.V. Pandit who offered him a job in his CBS music company. A friend recommended him to the filmmaker Gulzar, with whom he collaborated on TV serials such as 'Jungle Book', 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Guchche'.

Debut:

His association with Gulzar got him his first film as composer, Maachis while his first film as director was Makdee.

Career Graph:

The musical score for Maachis won critical and commercial acclaim and earned Vishal the Filmfare R D Burman Award in 1996. Since then, Vishal has scored music for several Hindi films such as Satya, Chachi 420 and a host of other popular projects. He is among the top music directors of the film industry and is known for doing quality work. Vishal Bhardwaj turned director with his children's film Makdee. He then made the first of his Shakespearean adaptations, Maqbool, based on Macbeth. This was followed up by yet another children's film, The Blue Umbrella based on Ruskin Bond's story of the same name. Omkara marked the second of Vishal's Shakespearan endeavours, this time an adaptation of Othello.

Vishal has also done some second unit work for the legendary Francis Ford Coppola on the latter's film Youth Without Youth. Currently, he is working on Blood Brothers, a 11-minute short film, which is part of Mira Nair's series of HIV-AIDS awareness films. Vishal's next film is likely to be titled Julia, to be co-written with Hollywood screen-writer Matthew Robbins. The film, rumoured to star Hollywood actress Uma Thurman and Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan, is about the biography of actress Nadira.

Awards:

1996: Filmfare - R D Burman Award for New Music Talent, Maachis
1999: National Film Award for Best Music Direction: Godmother
2002: Chicago International Children's Film Festival Adult' Jury Award.
2005: Zee Cine Award for Best Screenplay: Maqbool (with Abbas Tyrewala)
2006: Cairo International Film Festival, Best Artistic Contribution in
Cinema of a Director: Omkara
2006: Star Screen Awards Best Music Direction: Omkara
2006: Kara Film Festival Best Music Director - Omkara