Nationality Indian Years active 2000-present | Name Jaideep Sahni Role Screenwriter | |
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Occupation screenwriter, songwriter Awards IIFA Award for Best Story Nominations IIFA Award for Best Lyricist, Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist, Star Guild Award for Best Dialogue Movies Shuddh Desi Romance, Aaja Nachle, Chak De! India, Rocket Singh: Salesma, Khosla's Nest Similar People Shimit Amin, Maneesh Sharma, Sulaiman Merchant, Salim Merchant, Aditya Chopra | ||
Jaideep sahni on sushant singh rajput s character in shuddh desi romance
Jaideep Sahni (born 1968) is an Indian screenwriter, songwriter and creative producer, who wrote the screenplays for films like Chak De! India, Khosla Ka Ghosla, Company, Bunty Aur Babli and Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year.
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- Jaideep sahni on sushant singh rajput s character in shuddh desi romance
- Walk the talk with jaideep sahni
- Early life and education
- Career
- Filmography
- References
He won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue as well as Filmfare Award for Best Story for Company (2002), and the Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Khosla Ka Ghosla (2006). He also won the IIFA award 2008 for best story, for Chak De! India .
Walk the talk with jaideep sahni
Early life and education
Born and brought up in New Delhi, Jaideep Sahni studied at the Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Bidar. He started working as a computer engineer, and has worked for NIIT.
Career
He became a lyricist after jam sessions with Palash Sen, and after discovering the screenplay for the film Gandhi in a New Delhi bookshop, he started writing screenplays, at age 27. He wrote both the screenplay and the lyrics for Jungle (2000), which was directed by Ram Gopal Verma. The second film written by Sahni and directed by Verma, Company (2002), was nominated for eleven Filmfare Awards and won seven of them. Sahni then worked with Dibakar Banerjee in Khosla Ka Ghosla. Since then he continues to work for Yash Raj Films, where he started as a screenwriter for the film Bunty Aur Babli directed by Shaad Ali which was a box office success and a major breakthrough in Abhishek Bachchan's career.
He then wrote the 2007 film Chak De! India, directed by Shimit Amin, who was also an assistant to Ram Gopal Varma before joining Yashraj films. The movie starred Shah Rukh Khan as the coach of Indian hockey team, and was loosely based on the real-life story of Maharaj Krishan Kaushik. He also wrote the screenplay for Aaja Nachle, which was directed by Anil Mehta and which was also released in 2007. Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year, the third film of Shimit Amin, was released in 2009.
Filmography
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