Rajkumar Hirani - Biography

Rajkumar Hirani is the man who directed Munnabhai towards success and one of the most prominent film makers in the business. Basics on Rajkumar Rajkumar Hirani was born in Nagpur, India. After completing his graduation, he moved to Pune to study film editing at the Film and Television Institute of India. Starting out as an editor, he later began to produce and direct ad films before taking on movies. Rajkumar Hirani’s Movies Rajkumar Hirani worked in the capacity of a producer and editor for movies like 1942: A Love Story (1993), Kareeb (1998), Mission Kashmir (2000), Parineeta (2005) and Eklavya: the Royal Guard (2007). He was the writer and director of the comedy Munnabhai MBBS (2003) with Sanjay Dutt and Arshad Warsi that revived jappis and Gandhian thinking. The movie won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. The sequel Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) was also immensely popular and won several awards like Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie , Filmfare Best Story Award  and Filmfare Best Dialogue Award. He was nominated for the Filmfare Best Director award too. Later in 2009, his third directorial venture 3 Idiots with Aamir Khan will be released. The movie is based on Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone and the screenplay is written by Hirani and Abhijat Joshi.