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Indra Kumar | |
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Born | Indra Irani |
Occupation(s) | Director, producer |
Relatives | Actress
Shweta Kumar (daughter) 3 sisters and 4 brothers including: Adi Irani (brother) Aruna Irani (sister) Firoz Irani (brother) Kuku Kohli (brother-in-law) Bindu (cousin) |
Indra Kumar[1] (born Indra Irani) is an Indian film director and producer.[2][3] He had five Filmfare nominations, has also appeared in number of Gujarati-language films. His latest film produced is Thank God (2022).
Kumar debuted into direction as well as production with Dil (1990) and then directed the different concept-based drama films Beta (1992), Raja (1995) and Ishq (1997); all four being among the highest-grossing Hindi films of respective years and critically as well as commercially successful. He received two Filmfare Award for Best Director nominations for Beta and Raja. He followed this with a number of average grossers or commercial failures, causing a setback, except the comedy Masti (2004), which ended with Dhamaal (2007).[4] Kumar went on to make commercially successful comedy film sequels including Double Dhamaal (2011), Grand Masti (2013) and Total Dhamaal (2019). The latter ranks among the highest-grossing Hindi films and remains his highest-grossing release till date.