Amar Kaushik is an Indian director and actor best known for directing
the 2018 film Stree.Amar Kaushik grew up in Medo, Arunachal Pradesh
where his father was a forest ranger who worked for the Indian Forest
Service and his mother Shashi was a school teacher. When he was 10
years old, the family moved to Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He later studied
mass communications in Delhi and moved to Mumbai in 2006. In 2009,
Kaushik was attacked on a bus by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena members
who mistakenly believed he was director Anurag Kashyap. MNS leader Raj
Thackeray had criticised Kashyap for calling his film Bombay Velvet
and had unsuccessfully demanded that he change the name to Mumbai
Velvet.Kaushik began his film career in 2008, working as Raj Kumar
Gupta's assistant director on Aamir. He teamed up with Gupta again to
serve as associate director for No One Killed Jessica and Ghanchakkar.
In addition to crew duties, Kaushik had small acting roles in each of
the three films. After working as an associate director on the Onir
films Sorry Bhai!, I Am and Shab, Kaushik ventured into solo directing
with his short film "Aaaba". The script was written by Kauhsik and
based on a story by his mother. It was funded with loans from his
friends, including Raj Kumar Gupta. Shot entirely in Ziro, Arunachal
Pradesh, "Aaba" was screened at the Toronto International Film
Festival and won the Special Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the
2017 Berlin International Film Festival. "Aaba"'s screenplay also won
an Honorable Jury Mention at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival and
the film was awarded the Best Short Film award at the New York Indian
Film Festival.
the 2018 film Stree.Amar Kaushik grew up in Medo, Arunachal Pradesh
where his father was a forest ranger who worked for the Indian Forest
Service and his mother Shashi was a school teacher. When he was 10
years old, the family moved to Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He later studied
mass communications in Delhi and moved to Mumbai in 2006. In 2009,
Kaushik was attacked on a bus by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena members
who mistakenly believed he was director Anurag Kashyap. MNS leader Raj
Thackeray had criticised Kashyap for calling his film Bombay Velvet
and had unsuccessfully demanded that he change the name to Mumbai
Velvet.Kaushik began his film career in 2008, working as Raj Kumar
Gupta's assistant director on Aamir. He teamed up with Gupta again to
serve as associate director for No One Killed Jessica and Ghanchakkar.
In addition to crew duties, Kaushik had small acting roles in each of
the three films. After working as an associate director on the Onir
films Sorry Bhai!, I Am and Shab, Kaushik ventured into solo directing
with his short film "Aaaba". The script was written by Kauhsik and
based on a story by his mother. It was funded with loans from his
friends, including Raj Kumar Gupta. Shot entirely in Ziro, Arunachal
Pradesh, "Aaba" was screened at the Toronto International Film
Festival and won the Special Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the
2017 Berlin International Film Festival. "Aaba"'s screenplay also won
an Honorable Jury Mention at the Dada Saheb Phalke Film Festival and
the film was awarded the Best Short Film award at the New York Indian
Film Festival.
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