Anubhav Sinha

 ( 1965 Births ) 

Anubhav Sinha (born 22 June 1965) is an Indian film director, producer and writer known for his work in Hindi film industry. His films include Tum Bin (2001), Dus (2005) and Ra.One (2011) He also directed a series of socio-political films Mulk (2018), Article 15 (2019), Thappad (2020) followed by Anek, (2022) and Bheed (2023). His latest Netflix Series is (2024).

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Early and education Anubhav Sinha was born on Tuesday, June 22nd, 1965 in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh India to Prem Govind Sinha and Sushila Sinha. He went to school in Kalagarh, Garhwal division, Government Inter College, Allahabad and Queen's College, Varanasi. He completed his graduation in Mechanical Engineering from The Aligarh Muslim University in 1987.

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Career Anubhav Sinha began his career in the entertainment industry with TV shows like Sea Hawks and then a spate of music videos in the late 90s. Before beginning his career in entertainment industry, Sinha worked for one years in New Delhi as a theatre artist before moving to Mumbai on 4 December 1990. He worked as an assistant director to Pankaj Parashar until 1994 before branching out as an independent director for television for Zee TV. He was noticed for his work on Shikast, the flagship show of the TV network in Mumbai. This was followed by the TV show Sea Hawks for UTV. Sea Hawks was the number one show for 35 weeks across all networks. 72 episodes later, he turned to directing music videos.

In 2000, he left working on music videos to start his first feature film Tum Bin. It starred Priyanshu Chatterjee, Sandali Sinha, Himanshu Malik and Raqesh Vashisth. It went on to become a major box-office success and has gained a cult status over the years.

Sinha's second feature Aapko Pehle Bhi Kahin Dekha Hai starred Priyanshu Chatterjee and Sakshi Shivanand. His third film, the multi-starrer Dus, was the eighth highest-grossing film of the year 2005. This was followed by Tathastu (2006) and Cash (2007).

Before directing and producing Tum Bin II and Mulk, Sinha directed Shah Rukh Khan, Arjun Rampal and Kareena Kapoor starrer superhero film, Ra.One for which he wrote the script as well along with Kanika Dhillon.

In 2019, Sinha produced and directed Article 15 under his production house Benaras Media Works with Ayushmann Khurrana in the lead. The film is based on Article 15 of the Indian Constitution, which is about prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, Sexism or place of birth. The film generally received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success.

In 2020, Sinha helmed Thappad starring Taapsee Pannu, which released on 28 February 2020, and received highly positive reviews from critics, but was an average success at the box-office.

Sinha is also the founder and owner of Benaras Mediaworks, the production company that he established in 2012 to produce his films and television projects.

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Filmography

+ List of Anubhav Sinha film credits
Directed by Soumik Sen
Directed by Vivek Agnihotri
Directed by Ratnaa Sinha
Directed by Hansal Mehta
Directed by Sudhir Mishra
2024					TV series on Netflix

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Awards and nominations

+ List of Anubhav Sinha awards and nominations
2020	Best Asian Film	Thappad
2020	Best Film	Article 15
	Best Director
	Best Story
	Best Screenplay
2022	Best Film	Thappad
	Best Director
	Best Dialogue
2019	Best Story	Mulk
	Best Dialogue
	Best Screenplay
2020	Best Film (Critics)	Article 15
	Best Story
	Best Dialogue
	Best Screenplay
2021	Best Film	Thappad
	Best Film (Critics)
	Best Director
	Best Story
	Best Screenplay
2024	Best Film (Critics)	Bheed
	Best Story
2002	Best Story	Tum Bin
2019	Best Film	Mulk
	Best Film (Critics)
	Best Director
2020	Best Film (Critics)	Article 15
	Best Film Writing ()
2019	Best Film (Critics)	Mulk
	Best Director
2020	Best Story & Screenplay	Article 15

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