Subhash Ghai

Subhash Ghai

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Subhash Ghai Profile

  • Name:
  • Subhash Ghai
  • Born:
  • January 24, 1945
  • Spouse:
  • Rehana Farooqi Mukta Ghai
  • Education:
  • Graduation in Commerce and Diploma from Film and Television Institute of India

  • Awards:
  • Filmfare Best Director Award for Saudagar in 1992

    Filmfare Best Screenplay Award for Pardes in 1998

Subhash Ghai Biography

Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director who has also produced some films. He is interested in producing such films that has very rich themes that attract everyone. He started his own film production company in the year 1982 and he named it as Mukta Arts, in the name of his wife and has produced many successful films under that banner.

 

Subhash Ghai was born on 24th January 1945 in Nagpur in India in Khukhrain family which has its origin in Punjab. His father was a dentist in Delhi and so he spent his younger years in Delhi where he completed his higher studies. He completed his graduation in Commerce from Rohtak in Haryana and then joined the Film and Television Institute of India at Pune to get a diploma. He married Rehana Farooqui Mukta Ghai and has two daughters. In 2005, he opened a center known as Whistling Woods International Institute for Films, Media, Animation and Media Arts and this has been looked after by his elder daughter Meghna. This autonomous body is his dream project.

 

He entered film industry in 1970 as an actor. He played minor roles in some films and also acted in lead role in the film Umang which was a box office failure. He entered film direction in 1976 through the film Kalicharan and it turned out to be a blockbuster of that time. He continued to direct movies and majority of them were great successes.

 

His own film production company Mukta Arts Private Limited started in 1982 became a public company in 2000 and he became its chairman and managing director. His film Pardes released in 1997 and Taal released in 1999 got success worldwide and was featured in top 20 movies in US charts for many weeks.

 

Some of the films that he worked with include Kaanchi, 36 China Town, Aitraaz, Jogger’s Park, Yaadein, Taal, Pardes, Trimurti, Khalnayak, Saudagar, Ram Lakhan, Karma, Meri Jung, Hero, Vidhaata, Krodhi, Karz, Gautam Govinda, Vishwanath, Kalicharan, Good Boy Bad Boy, Apna Sapna Money Money, Aradhana, etc. 

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