Abbas Burmawalla

Abbas Burmawalla

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Abbas Burmawalla Profile

  • Name:
  • Abbas Burmawalla
  • Born / Home Town:
  • Surat

Abbas Burmawalla Biography

Abbas Burmawalla is one among the successful director duo of Bollywood – Abbas Mustan. He, along with his brother Mustan Burmawalla has formed the famous directors of Bollywood, Abbas Mustan. Their movies are always cash makers of Bollywood. Their most successful movies include – Soldier, Race, Race 2, Ajnabee, Baadshah, Baazigar, Khiladi, Aitraz and 36 China town. Most noticed fact is that their movies are always suspense thrillers and can take a U turn at any time. He is one among those directors of Bollywood who gave breakthrough movies for superstars like Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar and heroes like Bobby Deol and Akshay Khanna. They have directed only 14 Bollywood movies till now, of which majority were huge hits.

 

Abbas Burmawalla is originally from Surat. Their family was in the furniture business, but Burmawalla brothers decided to do something in life. They met their uncle S.D Kura who was an editor of movies. Uncle suggested them to do editing first and then go for film direction. They joined Sultan Ahmad as assistant director who was doing Ganga ki saugandh at that time. Later they worked as assistant of Govindbhai Patel. Once when Patel refused Gujarati film Sajan Tara Sambharana, Burmawalla brothers accepted it and directed the movie. The movie released in the year 1985 turned out to be a hit. Then they directed a few Gujarati movies before stepping into Bollywood. Their Gujarati movie ‘Moti Veerana Chowk’ was released in the year 1987.

 

The first Hindi film they did was Agnikaal with Jeetendra, Raj Babbar and Madvi in the leading roles and the movie was released in the year 1990. It was Abbas Mastan who started Khiladi series of Akshay Kumar. This movie gave the name ‘Khiladi of Bollywood’ to Akshay Kumar. After that 7 movies have been released under Khiladi series, perhaps the most known series of Bollywood. But surprisingly Abba Mastan has never been a part of all these Khiladi movies till now.

 

It was bit risk when they offered the key role of Baazigar to Shah Rukh Khan. Though everyone warned SRK not to do the movie, he took the challenge and made people love this villain than other characters.  Its credit truly goes to its directors too. No doubt, Baazigar was that particular movie of Shah Rukh Khan that placed him as an established actor of Bollywood, gave him the prime Filmfare award for best actor too.

 

Abbas - Mustan have also started their own production house called Burmawalla Partners. Their most recent releases include Players, Race, Race 2 and Naquaab.

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Updated: July 29, 2013

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