Shirish Kunder

Shirish Kunder

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  • Name:
  • Shirish Kunder
  • Spouse:
  • Farah Khan

Shirish Kunder Biography

Shirish Kunder is a popular film editor of Bollywood who shot up to fame with Farah Khan’s Mein hoon naa.  He is a producer, script writer as well as a director, who has directed Akshay Kumar’s movies – Joker and Jaane mann. He has written the lyrics of all songs of the movie Joker too. He debut as a music director composing a few songs for the movie Tees maar Khan. He is married to choreographer – director Farah Khan who is eight years older to him. They are blessed with triplets and a happy married life.

Shirish Kunder was born on 24 May 1973, Mangalore Karnataka. He holds a B Tech engineering degree in Electronics and telecommunication. Then he joined MOTOROLA Company. But he entered Bollywood as an editor and his first movie was Champion in 2000, starring Sunny Deol and Manisha Koirala. Then he did a string of movies like Aankhen, Na Tum Jaano Na Hum, Calcutta Mail, Armaan, Chura liya hai tumne, Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe, Sandhya, Matrubhumi and Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke. Except Aankhein and Na Tum Jaano Na Hum he didn’t get much acclamation. But through Mein hoon na, he came to lime light and after his marriage with Farah Khan, he became a well known face of Bollywood. He worked as a sound designer and promo designer too, for Mein hoon naa. He has worked for all directorial ventures of his wife including yet to release movie – Happy New Year. Movies in collaboration with Farah Khan are Mein hoon naa, Om Shanti Om, Happy New year and Tees maar Khan.

His other movies as a successful editor are Paisa vasool, Waqt: The Race against Time, Sandhya, Benaam, Jaane mann, Uuf Kya Jaadoo Mohabbat Hai and Socha na tha. He has produced a couple of movies – Tees maar Khan and Joker and has written the script and dialogues of his/Farah’s movies – Joker, Jaan – E – Mann and Tees maar Khan. His debutant movie as a director, Jaan – E – Mann starred Salman Khan, Priety Zinta and Akshay Kumar in the leading roles and critically well acclaimed. But Joker failed to bring smiles on the faces of audience as well as critics. 

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Updated: September 28, 2017

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