Sanjay Chauhan (screenwriter)

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Not to be confused with Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan screenwriter and director.

Sanjay Chauhan
Born	1962 (age 51–52) Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Occupation	screenwriter

Sanjay Chauhan (born 1962) is an Indian screenwriter, in Hindi cinema, most known for I Am Kalam (2011) for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Story.,^[1] and Paan Singh Tomar (2012), which he co-wrote with Tigmanshu Dhulia ^[2]

Biography

Born and brought up Bhopal, where his father worked for the Indian Railways, while his mother was a school teacher, Chauhan started his career as a journalist in Delhi, before moving to Mumbai after he wrote crime TV series, Bhanwar for Sony TV in late 1990s.^[1]

Filmography

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2003) (Dialogue)
Dhoop (2003) (Dialogue)
Siskiyaan (2005) (Screenplay)
Say Salaam India (2007) (Dialogue)
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara (2005) (Screenplay & Dialogue)^[3]
Right Yaaa Wrong (2010) (Dialogue)
I Am Kalam (2011) (Story and Dialogue)
Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster (2011) (Story & Screenplay)
Paan Singh Tomar (2012) (Story & Screenplay) ^[4]
Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns (2013) (Story & Screenplay)

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "The Twist In the Script". Tehelka Magazine. Vol 9, Issue 13, Dated 31 Mar 2012. p. 58. Check date values in: |date= (help)
↑ "Reviews Paan Singh Tomar". DNA (newspaper). Mar 2, 2012.
↑ "Maine Gandhi Ko is a masterpiece". Rediff.com Movies. September 30, 2005.
↑ "Scripting a new story for Bollywood scriptwriters". Sify.com Movies. Mar 26, 2011.

External links

Sanjay Chauhan at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Filmfare Award for Best Story

1955–1970	Mukhram Sharma (1955) Rajinder Singh Bedi (1956) Amiya Chakrabarty (1957) Akhtar Mirza (1958) Mukhram Sharma (1959) Subodh Ghosh (1960) Ruby Sen (1961) C. V. Sridhar (1962) K.P. Kottarakara (1963) Jarasandha (1964) Ban Bhatt (1965) Akhtar Mirza (1966) R. K. Narayan (1967) Manoj Kumar (1968) Sachin Bhowmick (1969) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1970)

1971–1990	Chandrakant Kakodkar (1971) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972) Basu Bhattacharya (1973) Salim-Javed (1974) Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai (1975) Salim-Javed (1976) Balaichand Mukherjee (1977) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1978) Dinesh Thakur (1979) Shanker Shesh (1980) Vijay Tendulkar (1981) Chetan Anand (1982) Samresh Basu (1983) S. D. Palwalker (1984) Mahesh Bhatt (1985) Aleem Masroor (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Subodh Ghosh (1989) Kasinadhuni Viswanath (1990)

1991–2010	Rajkumar Santoshi (1991 ) Honey Irani (1992) no award given (1993) Sutanu Gupta (1994) K. K. Singh (1995) Ram Gopal Varma (1996) Gulzar (1997) Kamal Haasan (1998) Mahesh Bhatt (1999) Vinay Shukla (2000) Honey Irani (2001) Ashutosh Gowariker (2002) Jaideep Sahni (2003) Nagesh Kukunoor (2004) Aditya Chopra (2005) Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain & Shivkumar Subramaniam (2006 ) Rajkumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2007) Amole Gupte (2008) Abhishek Kapoor (2009) Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2010)

2011–present	Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011) Sanjay Chauhan (2012) Juhi Chaturvedi (2013)

Persondata
Name	Chauhan, Sanjay
Alternative names
Short description	Screenwriter
Date of birth	1962
Place of birth	Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
Date of death
Place of death

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