Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

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Rakeysh Om Prakash Mehra (born July 7, 1963) is an Indian film director. He won the Best Director award in the 2006 Filmfare Awards for his movie, Rang De Basanti.

Contents 1 Career 2 Filmography 2.1 Director 2.2 Writer 3 External links

[edit] Career

He was born in New Delhi, India. Starting his career as an ad film maker.

He established Flicks Motion Picture Company Private Limited in 1986. He has directed scores of television commercials for various Indian and international clients such as Coke, Pepsi, Toyota, American Express and BPL. He has also directed music videos such as Aby Baby starring Amitabh Bachchan. In June 2001, his company released its first full-length feature film titled Aks, starring Amitabh Bachchan.

Aks was moderately successful but was praised for the performances in the film. His next release did not come until 2006. The film titled Rang De Basanti starred Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, and many more stars. The film was a huge hit in India and did very well overseas. He received much acclaim for the film.

Mehra's next film will be a comedy entitled Delhi 6 starring Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone. Mehra is also working on another script called Bhairavi With Hrithik Roshan.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Director

• Bhairavi (2008)
• Delhi 6 (2007)
• Rang De Basanti (2006)
• Aks (2001)

[edit] Writer

• Bhairavi (2008)
• Delhi 6 (2007)
• Rang De Basanti (2006)
• Aks (2001)

[edit] External links

• IMDB entry

Rakeysh Mehra also has a culinary interest - the famous Bauji ka Dhaba in a Gurgaon mall and in The Garden of the Five Senses, New Delhi. At the latter, unlike at a real dhaba, not only are the traditional welcoming glasses of water not plonked on the table when you sit down but they make you buy water, make you pay before you eat, serve expensive lassi in really small glasses, have no arrangement for washing hands, and the service is lousy.