Aanand L. Rai

Aanand L. Rai

Birth : 1971-06-28,

History

Aanand L. Rai is a Hindi film director and producer known for romantic-comedy movies Tanu Weds Manu (2011), Raanjhanaa (2013), Tanu Weds Manu: Returns (2015) and Zero (2018)

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Aanand L. Rai

Movies

An Action Hero
Producer
Youth Icon. Superstar. Action Hero. At the age of just 30, Maanav was at the peak of his career when he got caught up in an accident while filming in Mandothi village in Haryana. Maanav, who was once a household name, is now living in hiding.
Raksha Bandhan
Producer
Lala Kedarnath is blessed with 4 sisters. But his only worry is to find suitable grooms for each of them, as only then can he marry his childhood love. To what lengths will he go to succeed?
Raksha Bandhan
Director
Lala Kedarnath is blessed with 4 sisters. But his only worry is to find suitable grooms for each of them, as only then can he marry his childhood love. To what lengths will he go to succeed?
Good Luck Jerry
Producer
In dire need of money, Jerry gets drawn into the dangerous world of drug trafficking. Things go awry when she decides to quit.
Atrangi Re
Producer
Runaway Rinku gets forcefully married to already engaged Vishu. Both don't want this marriage and make a deal to go on their separate ways. The equation gets weirder when Rinku's lover Sajjad shows up and Vishu starts developing feelings for her.
Atrangi Re
Director
Runaway Rinku gets forcefully married to already engaged Vishu. Both don't want this marriage and make a deal to go on their separate ways. The equation gets weirder when Rinku's lover Sajjad shows up and Vishu starts developing feelings for her.
Haseen Dillruba
Producer
Under investigation as a suspect in her husband's murder, a wife reveals details of their thorny marriage that seem to only further blur the truth.
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan
Producer
Partners Karthik and Aman don't have it easy in their road to achieving a happy ending, while Aman's family tries to get him married to someone else, Karthik doesn't step down unless he marries Aman. A sequel to the 2017 film, titled Shubh Mangal Saavdhan.
Laal Kaptaan
Producer
In an 18th century setting, a Naga sadhu in India sets out on a journey across Bundelkhand to seek revenge for an injustice committed in the past.
Zero
Producer
Short in stature but big on love, a bachelor meets two very different women who broaden his horizons and help him find purpose in life.
Zero
Director
Short in stature but big on love, a bachelor meets two very different women who broaden his horizons and help him find purpose in life.
Tumbbad
Producer
India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.
Manmarziyaan
Producer
A spirited girl finds herself caught in a complicated love triangle while burdened with societal and familial pressures.
Happy Phirr Bhag Jayegi
Producer
Horticulture professor Happy arrives in Shanghai and the other Happy along with husband Guddu also lands up in the Chinese city at the same time. Gangsters who’ve come to kidnap Happy and her husband, pick up the wrong Happy, while Guddu and his wife Happy are escorted to a university to deliver a lecture.
Mukkabaaz
Producer
A low caste boxer trains at a gym controlled by a local Don. Shravan falls for Mishra's niece. The Don does not approve of this match. Shravan strives to win Sunaina's hand in marriage and become a successful boxer while trying to avoid retaliation from the Don.
Shubh Mangal Saavdhan
Producer
A couple fall in love but then the groom discovers that he suffers from erectile dysfunction.
Happy Bhag Jayegi
Producer
After fleeing an arranged marriage, a feisty Indian woman finds herself stranded in Pakistan where the ex-governor's son helps reunite her with her boyfriend.
Amma Kanakku
Producer
A mother tries to persuade her daughter who has given up on her studies to pursue her education despite the financial burdens.
Tanu Weds Manu: Returns
Producer
After Tanu and Manu's marriage breaks apart, the latter finds himself smitten by Datto, a lookalike of his ex-wife. But the estranged couple's feelings begin to spark again.
Tanu Weds Manu: Returns
Director
After Tanu and Manu's marriage breaks apart, the latter finds himself smitten by Datto, a lookalike of his ex-wife. But the estranged couple's feelings begin to spark again.
Tanu Weds Manu: Returns
Production Design
After Tanu and Manu's marriage breaks apart, the latter finds himself smitten by Datto, a lookalike of his ex-wife. But the estranged couple's feelings begin to spark again.
Nil Battey Sannata
Producer
Behind the magnificent Taj Mahal lies a cluster of dingy homes where Chanda (35), a domestic help, lives with her 14-year-old daughter Appu. Chanda aspires and dreams that her daughter will study and embrace a better fate. When Appu tells her she wants to quit school and become a maid like her, Chanda takes a strong decision: she will herself go back to school, and even join the class of her daughter.
Raanjhanaa
Director
A small-town boy needs to break through the class divide to gain acceptance from his childhood sweetheart who is in love with big city ideals.
Tanu Weds Manu
Director
Manu comes to India to find a bride for himself and falls for Tanu at first sight but Tanu, a free spirited girl has no plans of marrying him.
Thodi Life Thoda Magic
Director
The story revolves around one such man (MK), who brings smiles to everybody's faces. He touches the lives of the people who are busy trying to fulfill their dreams in this competitive world of media and television, making them realise that happiness and Magic doesn't exist anywhere outside their being but is within...
Strangers
Director
An overnight train journey, from London into France, business class, is comfortable and expensive. The premise where two of the film's protagonists,'strangers' to each other, meet, talk and decide to eliminate each other's spouses to alleviate themselves of the hell they are trapped in.
Phir Aayi Hasseen Dillruba
Producer
Sequel to the 2021 Netflix hit Haseen Dillruba
Gorkha
Producer
Major General Ian Cardozo is a former Indian Army officer who became the first war-disabled officer in the Indian Army to command a battalion and a brigade. Due to war injury, he had to undergo amputation and had a wooden leg when he was promoted to brigadier in the year 1984. Cardozo also served as the President of the Rehabilitation Council of India from 2005 to 2011. Despite his dissection, the former Indian Army officer regularly participates in the Mumbai Marathon.