Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Vikram Bhatt

A scriptwriter, director and producer who is the grandson of Vikram Bhatt, who was one of the pioneer of Indian movies and the son of cinematographer Pravin Bhatt. Vikram Bhatt was born on 27 January, 1967. He has made more than 21 flicks that have been penned into his credit and currently the ace filmmaker is the creative head of a conglomerate called ASA productions.

Vikram Bhatt
Vikram Bhatt started with his career into direction in 1982, at the young age of 14, with late Director Mukul Anand in Mukul's first film, 'Kanoon Kya Karega'. The director worked with Mukul Anand for six and a half months. His last film with Mukul was one of Indian Cinema's classic, 'Agneepath', on which he was a chief assistant at that time. Prior to that, Vikram worked with director Shekhar Kapur for 2.5 years and later with Mahesh Bhatt for almost two years, on projects like, 'Hum Hain Raahi Pyaar Ke' that starred Juhi Chawla and Aamir Khan and Pooja Bhatt

and rahul Roy starrer 'Junoon'. Started directing with a film called 'Jaanam' with producer Mukesh Bhatt, Vikram’s first four films did not do too well at the box office, till he saw his first success in the film titled 'Fareb'. After this, he never looked back and had a rope of successful Bollywood movies like 'Ghulam', 'Kasoor', 'Raaz' and 'Awaara Pagal Deewana'. In 2008, Vikram Bhatt came with the success of his horror flick, '1920' that left the audiences thrilled. 'Shaapit' another horror film was directed in 2010. His 2011, horror offering is titled Haunted.

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