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Satish Chandra Kaushik (13 April 1956 – 9 March 2023) was an Indian actor, director, producer, comedian, editor and screenwriter. He found his fame in Hindi cinema with Mr. India starring Anil Kapoor, Sridevi, and Amrish Puri, where he played the iconic character of a cook named Calendar. He later directed films such as Tere Naam.
As a theatre actor, his most noted role was that of "Willy Loman" in the Hindi-language play, Salesman Ramlal, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. "An Interview with Satish Kaushik", of Brick Lane , Indie London Kaushik wrote dialogues for Kundan Shah's comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983). His 2009 film Teree Sang, starring Ruslaan Mumtaz and Sheena Shahabadi, explores issues of teen pregnancy. His first film as a director was Sridevi's Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993). His second was Prem (1995), which was supposed to be Tabu's inaugural film. Both were box office disasters. "Interview with Satish Kaushik' , The Tribune, 7 December 2003 He continued to make films and got his first hit with Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in 1999.
He co-wrote and anchored a TV countdown show, Top Ten, for which he won the Screen Videocon Award. In 2005, Kaushik directed Arjun Rampal, Amisha Patel, and Zayed Khan in Vaada. In 2007 Kaushik, together with Anupam Kher, who had been his classmate at NSD, launched a new film company called Karol Bagh Productions. NSD Graduates Their first film, Teree Sang, was directed by Satish Kaushik.
His next work was to be based on the life of Tansen, in which the role of Tansen will be played by Abhishek Bachchan, and the soundtrack will be composed by Ravindra Jain; the script for the film is still being finished. Kaushik was working to promote Haryana's film industry, and was committed to making several films there.
Kaushik died of a heart attack in Gurugram on 9 March 2023, at the age of 66. In his last Instagram post, he was seen celebrating Holi 2023 at the house of Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi.
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