Shirish Kunder

Shirish Kunder
Born	(1973-05-24) 24 May 1973[1] Mangalore, Karnataka
Occupation	Film writer, producer, director, editor and composer
Spouse(s)	Farah Khan (m. 2004)
Children	3

Shirish Kunder (born 24 May 1973) is an Indian filmmaker. After working as an editor on over a dozen films starting with Champion (2000), Kunder made his screenwriting and directorial debut with Jaan-E-Mann (2006). He is married to choreographer and film director Farah Khan whom he met while working on her 2004 film Main Hoon Na.

Early life

Kunder was born on 24 May 1973 in Mangalore,^[2] Karnataka and brought up in Bombay, Maharashtra. He studied electronic engineering at the SDM College of Engineering and Technology in Dharwad.

Career

He worked as an electronics engineer in Motorola for four years before changing profession and entering the film industry as an editor,^[3] and in 2004 he married Farah Khan who was eight years older than him. Kunder then turned to directing. His directorial debut was titled Jaan-E-Mann. Apart from editing and composing the film score, he also wrote the film. The film starred Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta, and was released on 20 October 2006. The film performed poorly at the box office.^[4]

He was a co-producer of Tees Maar Khan, along with Twinkle Khanna and Ronnie Screwvala which he also co-wrote—with his younger brother Ashmith Kunder. The film starred Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif and Akshaye Khanna, and was released on 24 December 2010. This film was unsuccessful financially.^[5]

Kunder's second directorial venture was Joker, which he wrote, produced, directed, edited and composed the film score. The film starred Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha and Shreyas Talpade, and was released on 31 August 2012. This film did not perform well at the box office.^[6]

Kunder's third directorial venture was an 18-minute short film titled Kriti, a psychological thriller, featuring Manoj Bajpayee, Radhika Apte and Neha Sharma. It was released to YouTube on 22 June 2016.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Kunder is also known for his socially relevant satirical tweets on social media and has 1.2 million Twitter followers.^[13][14][15]

Kunder also wrote the humour column "Shirishly Speaking" for the Indian national daily newspaper DNA between 2016 and 2017.^[16]

Personal life

On 9 December 2004, Kunder married director and choreographer Farah Khan. She gave birth to their triplets, son Czar and daughters Diva and Anya, on 11 February 2008 at Mumbai's Jaslok hospital.^[17][18][19] Sajid Khan is his brother-in-law.

Filmography

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