Anand Kumar (born 10 December 1970) is an Indian film director, writer and the founder Anand Kumar Productions pvt ltd. He was born and brought up in Delhi. He started his career in film making with

Delhii Heights ''Delhii Heights'' is a 2007 Hindi-language film written and directed by Anand Kumar and produced by Sivaji Productions. It stars Jimmy Sheirgill and Neha Dhupia, with Om Puri, Rohit Roy, Simone Singh, Vivek Shauq and Kamini Khanna playing suppo ...

in 2007 featuring

Jimmy Shergill Jimmy Sheirgill (born Jasjit Singh Gill; 3 December 1970), also credited as Jimmy Shergill, is an Indian actor and film producer who works in Hindi and Punjabi films. Sheirgill began his film career with the 1996 thriller ''Maachis''. His bre ...

and

Neha Dhupia Neha Dhupia (born 27 August 1980) is an Indian actress and model who works predominantly in Hindi, and some Punjabi, Telugu and Malayalam films. She has won the Femina Miss India 2002 pageant and was among the top 10 finalists in Miss Universe ...

which was produced by

Sivaji Productions Sivaji Productions was an Indian film production and distribution company based in Chennai. Established in 1958, it was involved mainly in Tamil and Hindi-language films until 2010. History Sivaji Productions company is owned by Prabhu and h ...

as their first venture into

Mumbai Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

Film Industry.

was directed and written by him. His other movies are

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(2009) featuring

Manoj Bajpai Manoj Bajpayee (born 23 April 1969), also transliterated as Manoj Bajpai, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Hindi cinema and has also done Telugu and Tamil language films. Regarded as one of the finest actors of Hindi cinema, he i ...

and

Zila Ghaziabad ''Zila Ghaziabad'' () is 2013 Indian Hindi-language political action thriller film directed by Anand Kumar. It is produced by Vinod Bachan, and presented by Mohammed Fasih & Bharat Shah. The film features Sanjay Dutt, Vivek Oberoi, Arshad Warsi, ...

(2013) featuring

Sanjay Dutt Sanjay Balraj Dutt (born 29 July 1959) is an Indian actor who primarily works in Hindi cinema. In a career spanning over four decades, Dutt has won several accolades and acted in over 100 films, ranging from romance to comedy genres, though u ...

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Vivek Oberoi Vivek Anand Oberoi (born 3 September 1976) is an Indian actor who mainly works in Hindi cinema, in addition to working in few Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Tamil films. Early life Vivek Oberoi was born in Hyderabad, Telangana, to a Punjab ...

and Minisha Lamba.

Early life

Anand Kumar was born in a

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family in Delhi. His parents did not belong to any creative field whatsoever. His father is a Lawyer in

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and mother is a housewife. He received his education from DTEA Sr Secondary School, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi. He was a college dropout from MDU Law College, Rohtak. He spent a few years in

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where he pursued his

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course and thereafter got opportunity to work for various ad films, music, videos and documentaries in

, Delhi and

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Filmography

About Anand Kumar Productions

It works on the process of producing motion pictures, video content for television,

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, corporate promotions, commercials and other media-related fields. AKPPL takes special interest in discovering talented artists be it from

theater Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actor, actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The p ...

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, who are independent of major studios,

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, or other commercial channels of distribution and performances. In 2014, AKPPL released its first Action based film,

Desi Kattey ''Desi Kattey'' () is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action-drama film directed and produced by Anand Kumar under the banner of Anand Kumar Productions. The film was released on 26 September 2014. The story and screenplay is written by Aaryaan S ...

. The film starred

Suniel Shetty Suniel Shetty (born Sunil V. Shetty; 11 August 1961) is an Indian actor, film producer, television personality and entrepreneur who is predominantly active in Hindi films he has also worked in tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and kannada films. In a ca ...

Jay Bhanushali Jay Bhanushali (born 25 December 1984) is an Indian television actor. He is best known for playing Neev Shergill in Ekta Kapoor's show ''Kayamath'' and winning ''Nach Baliye 5''. He also participated in ''Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa#Season 2, Jhalak Dik ...

, sasha agha, Akhil Kapoor (debutant)and

Tia Bajpai Tia Bajpai (born Twinkle Bajpai) is an Indian singer, television and film actress. She made her film debut in 2011 with Vikram Bhatt's film '' Haunted - 3D'', and appeared in '' 1920: Evil Returns'' and '' Baankey Ki Crazy Baraat''. She also p ...

received mixed reviews. The production house is now gearing up for the

Biopic A biographical film or biopic () is a film that dramatizes the life of a non-fictional or historically-based person or people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used. They differ from docudra ...

of “Bhaichung Bhutia” and an Action Thriller “Meerut Junction” .. "

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* Living people Film directors from Delhi 1970 births {{India-film-director-stub