Abhishek Chaubey

Abhishek Chaubey, an Indian Film Director was born on 30 March 1977, in Uttar Pradesh. He completed his schooling from Hyderabad in the year 1995. In college, he took a bachelor course in English Literature in Hindu College of New Delhi and graduated in 1998. As he had interest towards filming and communications, he studied Film and Television Productions in Xavier College of Mumbai and began his career towards direction.

Abhishek Chaubey was the assistant director in a fiction movie directed by Vishal Bhardwaj The most outstanding of a successful film producer >> Read More... , ‘Makdee’, which released in 2002. The film has also been promoted in English as ‘The Web of Witch’. The movie was a comic thriller, and it comes under the category of children’s entertainment. It won second prize in ‘Chicago International Children’s Film Festival’ and the child artist, who played the lead role in the movie won the ‘Indian National Film Award for Best Child Artist’ in 2003.

He assisted Vishal Bharadwaj for several more movies, one of them was, ‘ Omkara Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ in 2006, which was one of his most notable works and got him several accolades for the screenplay and his co-direction. The story was based on Shakespeare’s novel ‘Othello’, and the movie won several awards like, the National Awards, Filmfare Awards, Star Screen Awards, IIFA. He won an international award for Screenplay in ‘Kara Film Festival for Best Adapted Screenplay’, and ‘Filmfare Awards’. More of his works are, ‘ The Blue Umbrella Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ in 2005, ‘Blood Brother’ in 2007 and ‘Maqbool’ in 2003.

Being motivated by his director, his debut direction was ‘ Ishqiya Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ which released in 2010 and was produced by Vishal Bhardwaj. It gave him a spot in the top directors list, and was a box office collection. The crew members were nominated for and won many awards. The music has been scored by Vishal Bhardwaj, which won him the National Award and was nominated in Filmfare Awards. The lead actress of the movie, Vidya Balan Vidya Balan is an award winning Bollywood actress >> Read More... won ‘Star Screen Awards for Best Actress’, ‘Film fare Critics for Best Performance’, ‘Apsara Award for Best Actress’ and was nominated in other award ceremonies too.

Abhishek Chaubey also produced a movie, ‘Ek Thi Dayan’ in 2013 which was critically appreciated by many. In 2014, ‘ Dedh Ishqiya Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ was released which was a sequel of ‘Ishqiya’ and had a good response from various critics. They called it a smart movie and a good step for the ambitious director. Now his third flick, ‘Uddta Punjab’ which is set to hit the screens soon, has huge heel on the expectations among the Bollywood industry.