Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

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Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Profile

  • Name:
  • Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
  • Born:
  • October 15, 1979
  • Mother:
  • Lakshmi Subramanium
  • Spouse:
  • Nitesh Tiwari

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Biography

Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari is a film director and screenwriter from Bollywood who made her debut with critically acclaimed Nil Battey Sannata in 2016 starring Swara Bhaskar. She directed its Tamil version too the same year titled, Amma Kanakku starring Amala Paul. A Malayalam version was made in 2017 starring Manju Warrier though Ashwiny was not a part of it. In 2017, she directed Bareilly Ki Barfi starring Rajkummar Rao, Ayushmann Khurrana and Kriti Sanon, and the movie met with critical acclaim and commercial success. She is the wife of noted filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari, best known for the movies Chillar Party and Bollywood’s biggest grosser, Dangal starring Aamir Khan.

 

Ashwiny was born in Mumbai on 15 October 1979. She is of Tamil origin. She grew up in the suburb of Mulund. She was inclined towards art since younger days. She is a gold medalist in commercial arts from Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai. After completion of studies, she spent 15 years in the advertising agency Leo Burnett (India), and won several awards and recognitions as well. In 2012, she made her first short film What's for Breakfast which won the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award. In 2016 she made her first full-length film, Nil Battey Sannata which was highly acclaimed. She remade the film in Tamil as Amma Kanakku, and released the same year.

 

The Tamil version of Nil Battey Sannata was produced by actor Dhanush who retained the director after watching the original Hindi version. Anand L. Rai co-produced the film. Ashwiny closely works with her husband Nitesh Tiwari, and has always been with Nitesh in his projects. She works as a creative director in her husband’s productions. Ashwiny resigned as the executive creative director of Leo Burnett, before she decided to pursue a career in film making. She began her career in advertising as a trainee at Leo Burnett in 2001. After three years she joined McCann Erickson, but she returned to Leo Burnett a year later.

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Updated: October 24, 2017

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