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Satish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre. He directed Himesh Reshammiya's film Karzzz (2008).
As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India [1], and as 'Chanu Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane (2007). He also won Filmfare Best Comedian Award twice in 1990 for film Ram Lakhan and 1997 for Saajan Chale Sasural.
As theatre actor his most known role is that of 'Willy Loman' in Hindi play 'Salesman Ramlal, an adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman [2].
As a dialogue writer he wrote dialogues for Kundan Shah's comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983).
His latest film Teree Sang starring Ruslaan Mumtaz and Sheena Shahabadi is based on teen pregnancy.
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Satish Kaushik was born on April 13 in Delhi, where he grew up in Naiwala gali, Karolbagh. He did his graduation from Kirori Mal College, New Delhi (1972-75).
He graduated from National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi in 1978 and later studied at Film and Television Institute of India Pune.
Satish Kaushik is now on the board of Asian Academy Of Film & Television.
Satish Kaushik started his career as an assistant director to Shekhar Kapoor in film Masoom (1983), this was also his first film as an actor.
His first film as director Sridevi starrer Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993) and his second, Prem (1995), which was supposed to be Tabu's launch film, both were box-office disasters [3], yet he continued his film making and finally got his first hit with Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in 1999.
He was also well known for his role as 'Calendar' in the hit film Mr. India alongside Anil Kapoor and Sreedevi.
He co-wrote and anchored a TV countdown show, 'Philips Top Ten' for which he won the Screen Videocon Award.
In 2007, Anupam Kher, who was his batchmate at NSD [4], started a new film production company, along with Satish Kaushik, 'Karol Bagh Productions', and their first film, Teree Sang, is being directed by Satish Kaushik [5].
His next work is based on the life of Tansen, one of the Navaratnas in Akbar the Great's court. It is produced by Rajshri Productions. The role of Tansen will be played by Himesh Reshammiya. The scriptworks for the film are getting finished.
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The Bollywood actor-director Satish Kaushik, a partner in the Chandigarh Film City project with Real estate company Parsavnath developers got 30 acre Film City in Sarangpur Village, Chandigarh at throw away prices,the real state company was forced to give this multi million project after foul play was exposed by media.[6]
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   | Satish Kaushik profile at movietalkies - Satish Kaushik Profile |
| | Interview with Satish Kaushik, The Tribune, Dec 7, 2003 - The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum |
| | Tere Sang interview - No. 1 Movie Community - Indyarocks Movieplex - Movies, News, Wallpapers, Trailers, Showtimes, Book tickets |
| | Hindustan Times, Aug, 2007 - Satish Kaushik to direct Karz remake- Hindustan Times |
| | Follow news on Satish Kaushik - Satish Kaushik - Director - |
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