Satish Kaushik

Satish Kaushik Biography

Satish Kaushik is a Bollywood producer, director as well as a comedy actor during late 80’s. He has done supporting role in many movies which he has produced and directed. As a comic actor, his role as Calendar is the movie Mr. India is noted most. As a successful director, his filmography include Hum aapke dil mein rehte hain, Mr.Bechara, Mujhe kuch kehna hai, Tere naam and Hamara dil aapke paas hai. His much expected projects like Roop ki rani choron ka raja, Prem, Karzzz, Milenge milenge and Badai ho badai couldn’t earn big at box office, though they were noticed. He has a successful association with actor Anil Kapoor with whom he acted in Mr. India and their association has given many movies like Roop ki rani choron ka raja, Badai ho badai, Hum aapke dil mein rehte hain, Mr. Bechara and Anil kapoor’s younger brother Sanjay Kapoor debut Bollywood with Satish Kaushik’s directorial venture Prem. He has also produced many Priyadarshan movies like Dhol, Kyon ki, Bum bum bole and Hungama. He has also produced the flop movie – Darna Zaroori hai. He has won Filmfare awards for best comedian for the movies Saajan chalo sasural and Ram Lakhan.

Before joining the industry as an associate director of Shekhar Kapoor, he completed his graduation from National school of Drama, New Delhi and Pune, Film and television institute. As a director, his first movie was Roop ki rani chorom ka raja. He experimented with the successful pair of Mr.India, Anil Kapoor and Sri Devi. Though the movie was fine, it dragged a lot giving financial trouble to its film makers and finally became a disaster when got released. As a successful director, his first movie was Hum aapke dil mein rehte hain in 1999, followed by Hamara dil aapke paas hai in the next year. Both these movies placed him as a good director of Bollywood. Anil Kapoor played the leading role in the movies with Kajol and Aiswarya Rai as heroines in the successive movies. However, Anil Kapoor’s movie as hero and Keerthi Reddy and Shilpa Shetty as heroines in Badai ho badai (2002) couldn’t make an impact in the box office.    

Tushar Kapoor debut Bollywood with his movie Mujhe kuch kehna hai in 2001. This movie was the second movie of Kareena Kapoor and first one in a glamourous role. The movie along with its music was a big success at box office. He repeated his success as a director directing Salman Khan and Bhumika Chawla in Tere Naam – Hindi remake of Vikram’s Tamil movie Sethu. This movie was something like a comeback movie of Salman Khan and regarded as his best performance ever.

Satish Kaushik has done small roles in many movies, most of them were in comic shades. A few of them include Hadh kardi aapne, Hum tum Shabana, Rascals, Do not disturb, Double damal, Kuch Khatta Kuch Meetha, Tera jaadu chal gaya, Hum kise se kum nahin and Athithi tum kab jaoge.  

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Updated: May 20, 2018