Madhur Bhandarkar

Director ● Screenplay Writer ● Story Writer


Madhur Bhandarkar is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. He made his directorial debut with Trishakti and has direct several critically and commercially successful films. Earlier he worked in a video cassette library in Khar, a suburb of Mumbai which gave him access to a large collection of movies and he studied film-making through it. After trying his skills with small-time filmmakers as an assistant, Bhandarkar landed up as an assistant to Ram Gopal Varma. He even played his first cameo in his 1995 film Rangeela where he was the associate director to Ram Gopal Varma.The drama film Chandni Bar (2001), won him the National Film Award for Best Film on Social Issues. Bhandarkar received the National Film Awards for the Best Feature Film and Best Director for Page 3 (2005) and Traffic Signal (2007) respectively. In 2017, Madhur Bhandarkar was invited to represent India at BRICS Film Festival. In most of his films, Bhandarkar's protagonist are females like Tabu in Chandni Bar, Raveena Tandon in Satta, Konkona Sen Sharma in Page 3, Bipasha Basu in Corporate, Neetu Chandra in Traffic Signal, Priyanka Chopra in Fashion and Kareena Kapoor in Heroine. In 2016 he was honored with the fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri by the Government of India.

Born on: 28 August, 1968

Born in: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Height: 5' 9''

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Hindi TBA
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Telugu 2022
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Tamil 2022
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Hindi 2022
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Hindi 2017
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Hindi 2017
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Portuguese 2015
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Hindi 2015
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Hindi 2012
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Hindi 2011
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Hindi 2009
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Hindi 2008
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Hindi 2007
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Hindi 2006
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Hindi 2005
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Hindi 2004
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Hindi 2003
Director
Hindi 2001
Director
Hindi 1999
Director
Hindi 2017
Screenplay Writer
Hindi 2017
Screenplay Writer
Portuguese 2015
Screenplay Writer
Hindi 2015
Screenplay Writer
Hindi 2012
Story Writer
Hindi 2011
Story Writer, Screenplay Writer
Hindi 2009
Story Writer
Hindi 2008
Story Writer, Screenplay Writer
Hindi 2007
Story Writer, Screenplay Writer, Dialogue Writer
Hindi 2006
Story Writer, Screenplay Writer
Hindi 2005
Dialogue Writer
Hindi 2003
Story Writer, Dialogue Writer
Hindi 2001
Story Writer, Screenplay Writer
Marathi 2023
Producer
Bengali 2021
Co-Producer
Hindi 2017
Producer
Portuguese 2015
Producer
Hindi 2012
Producer
Hindi 2008
Co-Producer
Hindi 2011
Special Appearance
Hindi 2008
Special Appearance
Hindi 1995
Supporting Actor
Hindi 1991
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