Danish Aslam

Danish Aslam Biography

Danish Aslam is a noted film director associated with Bollywood films. As a director, he is best known for the movie, Break Ke Baad, starring Imran Khan and Deepika Padukone. It’s his only movie in the role of a film director. He has stayed in the Bollywood industry for a long time as an assistant director. He assisted famous director Kunal Kohli in Fanaa, Ta Ra Rum Pum and Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic. He is married to noted Bollywood actress and VJ Shruti Seth since 2010.

Danish Aslam was born and brought up in Mumbai. He worked as an assistant director under Kunal Kohli for many years in the second half of 2000s. He got married to his girlfriend, actor Shruti Seth just before the release of his debut flick, Break Ke Baad in 2010. They got married after 4 years of courtship. Yet the director is not at all interested to do one film with his wife, Shruti. His debut work is inspired from The English Patient and 500 Days of Summer.

Since the first stage of the film discussion, he was keen on casting Imran Khan in the lead role. In fact he was impressed by Khan’s performance in his debut flick, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. The first time he read the script, he said no. Then, they met up at a party and got talking and realized that they had a lot of things in common. He worked on the script once more, and rewrote it with Renuka. Then Imran gave a final nod. Interestingly the actor is almost same in behavior and character to the lead hero of the movie.

Danish worked as an assistant director in the industry for 7 years. As a freelancer he has been associated with movies like Swadesh and Lakshya, before he assisted Kunal Kohli for a few flicks since Fanaa in 2006. Danish’s Break Ke Baad was produced by Kunal himself.

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Updated: June 20, 2018