Shaad Ali Sehgal Biography

Shaad Ali Sehgal, the renouned name of a bollywood director, is the son of Muzaffar Ali (a noted film producer and director) and Subhashini Ali Sehgal (an Indian politician and a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)) and grandson of Azad Hind Fauj commander Lakshmi Sahgal. He completed his school education at Welham Boys' School, Lucknow.




Ali started his career as an assistant director to Mani Ratnam, and assisted him on the film Dil Se (1998).

He made his directorial debut under Yash Raj Films, with Saathiya (2002), starring Rani Mukerji. The film was a remake of Mani Ratnam's Tamil film Alaipayuthey (2000). Saathiya's script was written by Ratnam. The film starring a newcomer Vivek Oberoi made great buisness and established Shaad Ali in the industry.

His second film was Bunty Aur Babli which for the first time brought together real-life father and son Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan alongside Rani Mukerji was one of the biggest hits of the year 2005.

Shaad Ali's third film released on 15 June, 2007. The film, titled Jhoom Barabar Jhoom starred Abhishek Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Bobby Deol and Lara Dutta in leading roles but made no great impact and shattered on box-office.

As Director, he has directed some hugely successful and some average films like Saathiya (2002), Bunty Aur Babli (2005), Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007) and Aitraaz (2004) For Dil Se (1998) and Guru (2007), Shaad had donned the role of Assistant Director.

Aziz Mirza - Talented Filmmaker

Aziz Mirza is an Indian film director and writer who began his career in 1985 and joined his brother Saeed Mirza and famous director Kundan Shah to set a new production company called Iskra.




He made his directional debut with the 1989 TV serial Circus starring Ashutosh Gowariker and Shahrukh Khan, who was a newcomer at that time. Since then, he has casted Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla in every other project in his career.

He made his first cinematic debut with Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (1992) starring Shah Rukh Khan and Chawla. The movie was inspired by Raj Kapoor's classic comedy Shree 420 (1955). The movie did pretty well at the box office. However, his next project, Yes Boss (1997) did fairly well at the box office and was well received overall.

In 1999, he set up a production company called Dreamz Unlimited with Juhi Chawla and Shahrukh Khan. Their first movie Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000) was directed by Mirza and failed to do well at the box office. However, in 2003 Mirza directed the third film, Chalte Chalte starring SRK and Rani Mukerji in lead roles. The movie was the first box office hit from this production house. After this he took a hiatus from film directing due to the death of his wife.

Mirza returned to directing and his last release was a film titled Kismet Konnection which did average business in 2008 and boasted of stars like Shahid Kapoor and Vidya Balan in lead roles.

Kunal Kohli, bollywood director

Kunal Kohli is a bollywood director with just four movies in his kitty to talk about yet because of his association with Yash Raj Films, he has become famous. His debut film under the Yash Raj banner was Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002) which did not fare too well at the box office. The film starred Hrithik Roshan, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor.




His second venture Hum Tum (2004) was one of the biggest hits of 2004 and established him as a known director. The film won five Filmfare awards including Best Director for Kohli. He won against his own mentor Yash Chopra who was nominated for Veer-Zaara.

His film Fanaa, starred Aamir Khan and Kajol who made her comeback after a four year break from the industry and earned her a Filmfare Best Actress award. The film was released in May 2006. Fanaa became one of the biggest hits of all time. This film was found controversial, and was banned in the state of Gujarat due to protests against the lead actor Aamir Khan.


He also directed some music videos, Bally Sagoo's 'Mera Laung Gawacha', Bali Brahmabhatt's 'Tere Bin Jeena Nahin', Shiamak Davar's 'Jaane Kisne', Hema Sardesai's 'Bole Humse Kuch Na Gori' and Rajshri Music's 'Yeh Hai Prem', a song for Alisha Chinoy with Milind Soman.

He started his production house Kunal Kohli Productions in 2007 to make films for himself and launch new directors too. He wrote, directed and co-produced Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic, starring Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukerji, Rishi Kapoor and Amisha Patel that was not received well at the box-office and did not meet with the success of Hum Tum and Fanaa. He has also considered Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor for his next film.

Kunal Kohli has directed the following films-

* Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (2008)
* Fanaa (2006)
* Hum Tum (2004)
* Mujhse Dosti Karoge! (2002)

He has also scripted the films he has directed, all on his own.