Abhishek Chaubey

Abhishek Chaubey

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Abhishek Chaubey Profile

  • Name:
  • Abhishek Chaubey
  • Born:
  • March 30, 1977

Abhishek Chaubey Biography

Abhishek Chaubey is a critically acclaimed young director and screenwriter of Bollywood who scripted and directed Ishqiya (2010) and its sequel, Dedh Ishqiya (2014) known for powerful scripts, humour and acclaimed performances of its lead actors. He has also penned powerful scripts for Bollywood projects like The Blue Umbrella (2005), Omkara (2006), Kaminey (2009) and Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (2012). He has been an associated director and co-writer to Vishal Bharadwaj for many of his ventures like Omkara, Makdee, Maqbool and The blue umbrella. His powerful script of Omkara, based on Shakespeare’s acclaimed play Othello earned him nomination at Filmfare and IIFA Awards.

 

Chaubey was born in Faizabad in 1977. He spent his younger days at various places like Jamshedpur, Patna and Ranchi. He completed schooling from Jamshedpur, Patna and Ranchi in 1993. He completed his graduation in English literature from Hindu College, New Delhi in 1998. Later he moved to Mumbai and did a course in Film & Television Production from Xavier Institute of Communications before entering cinema. He worked under Vishal Bharadwaj for many years and scripted his movies too, before making his directorial debut with Ishqiya in 2010.

 

He surprised the audience as well as critics with his debut movie, Ishquiya, which is also known for the stunning performance of actress Vidya Balan. The black comedy thriller film also starred Arshad Warsi and Naseeruddin Shah in pivot roles and this woman-oriented movie earned many awards and nominations at different film awards. Very soon its sequel was announced. Dedh Ishqiya in 2013 marked the successful, comeback of Bollywood queen Madhuri Dixit. While Arshad Warsi and Naseeruddin Shah retained their roles of ‘Chacha-Bhatija’ thieves like the prequel, Vidya Balan was substituted by Madhuri Dixit and Huma Qureshi.

 

The movie received warm response from the critics particularly for weaving the sequel with same story line of the original, though tricky plotted in another way. Chaubey has announced his next project.

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Updated: July 29, 2014

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