Farhad Samji (born 5 May 1974) is an Indian music composer, writer, and film director who works in

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. He is known for directing films like ''

Housefull 4 ''Housefull 4'' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language fantasy action comedy film directed by Farhad Samji and produced by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment and Fox Star Studios. The film is the fourth installment of '' Housefull'' franchise, and star ...

'' and ''

Bachchhan Paandey ''Bachchhan Paandey'' is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Farhad Samji and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Kriti Sanon, Jacqueline Fernandez(In a special appearance) and Arshad Warsi. It is ...

'' independently. He has also made special appearances in films like ''

Baaghi 3 ''Baaghi 3'' () is a 2020 Indian action thriller film directed by Ahmed Khan and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film is the third installment in ''Baaghi'' series and stars Tiger Shroff, Riteish Deshmukh and Shraddha Kapoor. It also featu ...

'' and '' Coolie No. 1''. He is famous for his works with his brother,

Sajid Samji Sajid Samji (born 20 August 1967) is an Indian writer, composer and film director. He is the brother of composer Farhad Samji and a member of the duo Sajid-Farhad. Career He started his career with Tere Pyaar Mein as dialogue writer since then ...

. The duo together is known as Sajid - Farhad and are known for directing films like '' Entertainment'' and ''

Housefull 3 ''Housefull 3'' is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film co-written and directed by Sajid-Farhad and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala under the banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. The film is the third installment of the ''Houseful ...

''.

Career

Farhad started his career with his

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in 2002 as lyricists. After that they started writing dialogues since

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in 2006. Their last movie was

Simmba ''Simmba'' is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rohit Shetty from a script written by Yunus Sajawal and Sajid-Farhad. The third installment of Shetty's Cop Universe film franchise, the film was produced by Shetty and Relian ...

in 2018.In 2019, apart from writing dialogues for Punjabi film ''

Singham ''Singham'' is a 2011 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Rohit Shetty and produced by Reliance Entertainment, based on a script by writers Yunus Sajawal and Farhad-Sajid. It serves as first installment of Shetty's Cop Universe. A ...

'', he directed web series '' Booo Sabki Phategi'' and the action comedy movie ''

'' (starring

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and produced by

Sajid Nadiadwala Sajid Nadiadwala (born 18 February 1966) is an Indian film producer, writer, and director who works in Hindi cinema. He is the owner of Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. Grandson of filmmaker A.K. Nadiadwala, Sajid has written and produced fi ...

, which was the fourth part of '' Housefull'' franchise and became a blockbuster despite of critically negative reviews). Samji wrote dialogues for the 2020 films ''

Street Dancer 3D ''Street Dancer 3D'' is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language dance film directed by Remo D'Souza and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Divya Khosla Kumar, Krishan Kumar and Lizelle D'Souza under the banners of T-Series and R.D. Entertainment. The film stars ...

'', ''

'' and '' Coolie No. 1''. He has completed his next directorial, the

and

Kriti Sanon Kriti Sanon (born 27 July 1990) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi and Telugu-language films. After pursuing a degree in engineering from the Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, she briefly worked as a fashion model. Sanon began ...

2021 starrer ''

Bachchan Pandey ''Bachchhan Paandey'' is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Farhad Samji and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala. The film stars Akshay Kumar, Kriti Sanon, Jacqueline Fernandez(In a special appearance) and Arshad Warsi. It is ...

'', whose shooting took place from January to March 2021. Samji will also make the social family comedy ''Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali'' starring

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and

Pooja Hegde Pooja Hegde (; born 13 October 1990) is an Indian actress who appears predominantly in Telugu films, in addition to Hindi and Tamil films. She began her career as a model and was crowned as the second runner-up at the 2010 I Am She–Miss Univ ...

, which begins filming in October 2021 and is expected to release as of Bakri-Eid 2022. Both films are produced by

Filmography

As director

As writer

As lyricist

As singer

As music composer

Works with Sajid

As Lyricist

As Writer

As Director

Awards and nominations

* Nominated for

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for Writing Dialogue for the movie

Singham (2019 film) ''Singham'' is a 2019 Indian Punjabi-language action film written by Dheeraj Rattan and directed by Navaniat Singh. Co-produced by T-Series, Ajay Devgn Films and Panorama Studios, it stars Parmish Verma, Kartar Cheema and Sonam Bajwa, along ...

References

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