Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Birth : 1963-07-07, New Delhi, India

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (born 7 July 1963) in a Hindu Punjabi Family in New Delhi. He is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing Rang De Basanti (2006), for which he won Best Director awards at the 2006 Filmfare Awards and National Film Awards and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. He is also the writer and director of the films Aks (2001) and Delhi-6 (2009). Description above from the Wikipedia article Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

Movies

Toofaan
Producer
An inspiring story about an orphan boy from the streets of Dongri, who grows up to become a local goon of his area and how his life changes after he meets the young and compassionate Ananya, who guides him towards the right path and makes him realize his true calling i.e boxing.
Toofaan
Director
An inspiring story about an orphan boy from the streets of Dongri, who grows up to become a local goon of his area and how his life changes after he meets the young and compassionate Ananya, who guides him towards the right path and makes him realize his true calling i.e boxing.
Mere Pyare Prime Minister
Screenplay
A story about four children living in a Mumbai slum in India. An eight-year old Kanhu writes a letter to the Prime Minister after a dramatic incident with his mother.
Mere Pyare Prime Minister
Producer
A story about four children living in a Mumbai slum in India. An eight-year old Kanhu writes a letter to the Prime Minister after a dramatic incident with his mother.
Mere Pyare Prime Minister
Director
A story about four children living in a Mumbai slum in India. An eight-year old Kanhu writes a letter to the Prime Minister after a dramatic incident with his mother.
Fanney Khan
Producer
The journey of a struggling singer 'Fanney Khan' who aspires to make his daughter a big name in the music world.
Mirzya
Director
Two star-crossed lovers must battle the forces which try to keep them apart at different timelines and at different world's.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
Director
The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told
Director
This spectacular montage of scenes from a wealth of classic Bollywood films
Teen Thay Bhai
Producer
Bhatinda-based middle-classed Harpreet Gill is unable to get his three rather plain-looking and overweight daughters married and must live with constant criticism from his wife; his brother, Chiksi, is a fake dentist who incurs wrath of his patients; while his second brother, Fancy, is an out-of-work Punjabi movies' actor. The trio dislike each other and keep their distance. When their grandfather, Khetrapal Singh, passes away, the trio do get together and waste no time in squabbling with each other. They are, however, pleasantly surprised when they find out that he had left a mansion in their respective names. Their joy will turn to anger and disgust after they find out the location as well as the terms and conditions, spread over a period of three years, that go with this procurement.
Delhi-6
Producer
Roshan, an NRI, arrives in Old Delhi with his ailing grandmother and starts to rediscover himself before getting caught in a religious dispute that shakes the once peaceful neighborhood.
Delhi-6
Director
Roshan, an NRI, arrives in Old Delhi with his ailing grandmother and starts to rediscover himself before getting caught in a religious dispute that shakes the once peaceful neighborhood.
Rang De Basanti
Screenplay
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
Rang De Basanti
Producer
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
Rang De Basanti
Director
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a friend owing to local government corruption awakens their patriotism. Inspired by the freedom fighters they represent in the film, the friends collectively decide to avenge the killing.
Aks
Screenplay
On the trail of an underworld contract killer, a dedicated police officer is thrust into a battle between good vs evil.
Aks
Story
On the trail of an underworld contract killer, a dedicated police officer is thrust into a battle between good vs evil.
Aks
Director
On the trail of an underworld contract killer, a dedicated police officer is thrust into a battle between good vs evil.
Rubaru
Producer
A documentary on the making of the BAFTA (2006) nominated Indian film RANG DE BASANTI and its effect on the people in India or what came to be called as the RDB EFFECT in the media.