Satish Kaushik

Satish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre. As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India , and as 'Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane (2007). He also won Filmfare Best Comedian Award twice in 1990 for film Ram Lakhan and 1997 for Saajan Chale Sasural.

He started his career as an assistant director to Shekhar Kapoor in film Masoom (1983), this was also his first film as an actor.His first film as director Sridevi starrer Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993) and his second, Prem (1995), which was supposed to be Tabu's launch film, both were box-office disasters , yet he continued his film making and finally got his first hit with Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in 1999.He was also well known for his role as 'Calendar' in the hit film Mr. India alongside Anil Kapoor and Sreedevi.

In 2007, Anupam Kher, who was his batchmate at NSD , started a new film production company, along with Satish Kaushik, 'Karol Bagh...

Satish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre. As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India , and as 'Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane (2007). He also won Filmfare Best Comedian Award twice in 1990 for film Ram Lakhan and 1997 for Saajan Chale Sasural.

He started his career as an assistant director to Shekhar Kapoor in film Masoom (1983), this was also his first film as an actor.His first film as director Sridevi starrer Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993) and his second, Prem (1995), which was supposed to be Tabu's launch film, both were box-office disasters , yet he continued his film making and finally got his first hit with Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in 1999.He was also well known for his role as 'Calendar' in the hit film Mr. India alongside Anil Kapoor and Sreedevi.

In 2007, Anupam Kher, who was his batchmate at NSD , started a new film production company, along with Satish Kaushik, 'Karol Bagh Productions', and their first film, Teree Sang, is being directed by Satish Kaushik.

His next work is based on the life of Tansen, one of the Navaratnas in Akbar the Great's court. It is produced by Rajshri Productions. The role of Tansen will be played by Himesh Reshammiya. The scriptworks for the film are getting finished. Now a days he is very serious to promote Haryana's film insustry, for that he is making five films.

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