The Biography & Filmography: Vikram Bhatt

Vikram Bhatt is the son of cinematographer Pravin Bhattand he always knew he wanted to be a director and he made this belief a reality with his directorial debut Jaanam, a film which also marked the beginning of a long affiliation with the Vishesh Films. A disaster at the box office, Jaaanam made Vikram even more hungry to prove that he was a proficient director and storyteller, which he ably did with the super-hit film Ghulam, in which he convinced actor of stature of Aamir Khan to sing for the first time ever in his career, that gave birth to a rage not a song, "Aati Kya Khandala' Ghulam , the first commercial hit of Vikram's career, also marked Rani Mukherji's first mainstream commercial Bollywood hit post her debut in Raja Ki Aayegi Barat.

Vikram then went on to launch several new faces in the industry including Lisa Ray in Kasoor and Miss Universe Sushmita Sen in Dastak, as well as serial kisser Emran Hashmi in Footpath.

Filmography

1920 ( Adah Sharma, Rajneesh Duggal)
Speed ( Zayed Khan, Aftab Shivdasani, Urmila Matondkar, Sanjay Suri, Tanushree Dutta, Amrita Arora, Ashish Choudhary)
Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee ( Aftab Shivdasani, Dino Morea, Nauheed Cyrusi, Sammir Dattani, Anjori Alagh)
Red ( Aftab Shivdasani, Celina Jaitley, Amrita Arora)
Ankahee ( Aftab Shivdasani, Amisha Patel, Esha Deol)
Deewane Hue Pagal ( Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Rimi Sen, Shahid Kapur, Paresh Rawal)
Jurm ( Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta, Milind Soman, Gul Panag)
Elaan ( Arjun Rampal, John Abraham, Rahul Khanna, Amisha Patel, Lara Dutta)
Aitbaar ( Amitabh Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, John Abraham)
Footpath ( Aftab Shivdasani, Rahul Dev)
Awara Paagal Deewana ( Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani)
Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage ( Hrithik Roshan, Amisha Patel)
Raaz ( Dino Morea, Bipasha Basu)

Whether a success at the box office or not, Vikram's films have always been entertainers for the mass audiences and Vikram clearly makes films with the single objective that is entertainment.

Vikram Bhatt on footsteps of RGV!!!

Vikram Bhatt is a Bollywood writer and director, now turned producer. He is the grandson of Vijay Bhatt, who was one of the pioneer of Indian Films and the son of veteran cinematographer Pravin Bhatt.



Like Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt, Vikram too is too planning to make a series of medium-budget films this year Vikram plans to release as many as six films between March 2009 and March 2010.This is like the strategy of Ram Gopal Verma whose production house is named factory for making many films in a row in short time.

The first project is Phhir, which is slated for release on 19th June. It will star the 1920 pair --Rajneesh Duggal and Adah Sharma - with Roshni Chopra. Phhir will be directed by Girish Dhamija and produced by ASA Productions and Mirah Entertainment.

The second film in the row is Three - Love, Lies and Betrayal. Slated for release on 21st August, the film is directed by Vishal Pandya. It stars Aashish Chowdhary, Nausheen Ali Sardar and Akshay Kapoor. This one is also produced by ASA Productions and Mirah Entertainment.

Vikram Bhatt will launch Udit Narayan's son Aditya Narayan in a film titled Shaapit with Shweta Agarwal. This film is slated for release on 12th February, 2010.

Besides these three films, Vikram is in the process of starting one film each with journalist turned director Khalid Mohamed,Sanjay Khanna and Sujit Mondal. The project with Vikram as well as these
three films is being produced by ASA Productions.

He has directed more than 21 films to his credit and at present he is the creative head of a conglomerate called ASA Productions and Enterprises Pvt Ltd. Among his successful projects these needs special mention - 1920 (film) (2008),Ankahee (2006), Deewane Huye Pagal (2005), Footpath (2003),Inteha (2002),Awara Paagal Deewana (2002), Aap Mujhe Achche Lagne Lage (2002), Raaz (2002),Kasoor (2001)(Also rendered his voice for Aftab Shivdasani),Ghulam (1998).