Aziz Mirza
Indian film director and producer
- Akhtar Mirza (father)
Aziz Mirza (born 15 August 1947) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter known for his works in Bollywood and Indian television.[1][2]
Background
Mirza was born the son of Bollywood script-writer Akhtar Mirza. He is a brother of the film maker Saeed Mirza.
Career
Mirza started his career in 1985 when he joined his brother Saeed Mirza and veteran director Kundan Shah to set a new production company called Iskra. He made his directional debut with the 1989 television serial Circus starring Ashutosh Gowariker and Shahrukh Khan.
He made his film debut with Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman (1992) starring Khan and Chawla. The movie was inspired by Raj Kapoor's classic comedy Shree 420 (1955). His next project, Yes Boss (1997) starring Aditya Pancholi, Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla.
In 1999, Mirza set up a production company called Dreamz Unlimited with Juhi Chawla and Shah Rukh Khan. Their first flm Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani (2000) was directed by Mirza. In 2003 Mirza directed the third film out of Dreamz Unlimited, Chalte Chalte starring Shah Rukh Khan and Rani Mukerji. The film was the first box office hit from this production house. After this, he took a hiatus from film directing due to the death of his wife. In 2007, Mirza returned to directing and released his next film titled Kismat Konnection in 2008, starring Shahid Kapoor and Vidya Balan.[3][4]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman | Director, writer |
| 1997 | Yes Boss | Director, writer |
| 2000 | Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani | Director, producer |
| 2003 | Chalte Chalte | Director, producer, writer |
| 2008 | Kismat Konnection | Director |
Television
| Year | Film | Role(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Nukkad | Director |
| 1989 | Circus | Director |
References
- ^ "Chalte Chalte... Manoranjan beyond Nukkad". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 30 June 2003.
- ^ "Haroon: Aziz Mirza's son to make his debut!". The Times of India. 18 April 2001.
- ^ "Aziz Mirza's chilling out!". The Times of India. 25 July 2008.
- ^ "Aziz Mirza 'dumps' Shah Rukh for next film". hindustantimes.com/. 17 December 2007.
External links
- Aziz Mirza at IMDb
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- Nabendu Ghosh (1969)
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1970)
- Vijay Anand (1971)
- Basu Chatterjee (1972)
- Arvind Mukherjee (1973)
- Salim-Javed (1974)
- Shama Zaidi & Kaifi Azmi (1975)
- Salim-Javed (1976)
- Basu Chatterjee (1977)
- Lekh Tandon, Vrajendra Kaur & Madhusudan Kalekar (1978)
- Kamleshwar (1979)
- Girish Karnad & B. V. Karanth (1980)
- Vijay Tendulkar (1981)
- K. Balachander (1982)
- Salim-Javed (1983)
- Vijay Tendulkar (1984)
- Mrinal Sen (1985)
- Goutam Ghose & Partha Banerjee (1986)
- no award (1987)
- no award (1988)
- Nasir Hussain (1989)
- Shiv Kumar Subramaniam (1990)
- Basu Chatterjee (1991)
- Tapan Sinha (1992)
- Aziz Mirza & Manoj Lalwani (1993)
- Robin Bhatt, Javed Siddiqui & Akash Khurana (1994)
- Sooraj Barjatya (1995)
- Aditya Chopra (1996)
- Rajkumar Santoshi (1997)
- Subhash Ghai (1998)
- Karan Johar (1999)
- John Matthew Matthan (2000)
- Honey Irani & Ravi Kapoor (2001)
- Farhan Akhtar (2002)
- Mani Ratnam (2003)
- Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Lajan Joseph (2004)
- Mani Ratnam (2005)
- Nina Arora & Manoj Tyagi (2006)
- Jaideep Sahni (2007)
- Anurag Basu (2008)
- Yogendra Vinayak Joshi & Upendra Sidhaye (2009)
- Rajkumar Hirani, Vidhu Vinod Chopra & Abhijat Joshi (2010)
- Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011)
- Akshat Verma (2012)
- Sanjay Chauhan & Tigmanshu Dhulia (2013)
- Chetan Bhagat, Abhishek Kapoor, Supratik Sen & Pubali Chaudhari (2014)
- Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (2015)
- Juhi Chaturvedi (2016)
- Shakun Batra & Ayesha Devitre (2017)
- Shubhashish Bhutiani (2018)
- Sriram Raghavan, Arijit Biswas, Pooja Ladha Surti, Yogesh Chandekar & Hemanth M. Rao (2019)
- Zoya Akhtar & Reema Kagti (2020)
- Rohena Gera (2021)
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