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Vivek Agnihotri was born on 10 November, 1973 in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India, is an Indian director, screenwriter and author. Discover Vivek Agnihotri's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?

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Occupation Film director · film producer · screenwriter · author
Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 10 November, 1973
Birthday 10 November
Birthplace Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India
Nationality India

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His wife is Pallavi Joshi (m. 1997)

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1973

Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (born 10 November 1973) is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter and author who works in Hindi cinema.

, he is a member of the board of India's Central Board of Film Certification and a cultural representative of Indian Cinema at the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

1984

Agnihotri's upcoming film, The Delhi Files, will be the last in the Files trilogy, which is "evidently about the 1984 anti-Sikh riots."

1994

In 1994, he became involved with the directing and production of several television serials; his work was positively received.

1997

Agnihotri married Indian actress Pallavi Joshi in 1997 and has two children.

He has described himself as a supporter of Narendra Modi, but not of the Bharatiya Janata Party that Modi belongs to.

Agnihotri supports cannabis legalization.

In 2022, Agnihotri announced that he was starting knee surgery after suffering a cartilage tear the previous year, which resulted in him suffering a stress fracture.

He had ignored the cartilage tear for one and half years while producing The Kashmir Files.

In 2022, Agnihotri delivered a speech in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The theme of the event was "India, world peace and humanism".

Fact checkers have noted Agnihotri to have shared misleading content from his Twitter account.

Sources which say Agnihotri shared misleading content

2005

Agnihotri made his directorial debut with the crime thriller Chocolate (2005) and has directed multiple films since which failed to propel his career forward until The Tashkent Files (2019) which emerged as a commercial success and earned him the National Film Award for Best Screenplay - Dialogues.

He also wrote and directed The Kashmir Files (2022) which emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian film of 2022 and earned him the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration.

He next wrote and directed a medical drama film The Vaccine War (2023) which emerged as a box-office bomb.

Agnihotri was born in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh He studied at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication before enrolling at Harvard Extension School for a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management.

In interviews with media, he has also mentioned Bhopal School of Social Sciences and Jawaharlal Nehru University among his almae matres.

Agnihotri started his career with the advertising agencies Ogilvy and McCann, and served as creative director for campaigns of Gillette and Coca-Cola.

Agnihotri debuted in Bollywood with Chocolate (2005), a remake of the 1995 Hollywood neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects.

Critical reception of the movie was negative, and the film fared poorly at box office.

2014

Agnihotri's 2014 erotic thriller Zid received poor reviewsReviews of Zid:

2017

In 2017, Agnihotri was selected as convenor by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in the preview committee of 48th International Film Festival of India.

The same year, he was selected as member on board of India's Central Board of Film Certification.

2018

In 2018, Agnihotri claimed that he had received threats for using the name Mohammad in his short film Mohammad and Urvashi.

In 2018, Bollywood actress Tanushree Dutta would accuse Agnihotri of inappropriate behaviour during its filming.

He allegedly asked her to strip and dance to give expression cues to her male co-star Irrfan Khan during a close-up shot and retreated only after Irrfan and Suniel Shetty rebuffed him.

Agnihotri denied the allegations as "false and frivolous", and filed a defamation case against Dutta.Sources covering the episode:

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal is about an all-Asian football team in the United Kingdom that wins trophies while fighting on-field discrimination and the local municipality that wants to sell the team's ground.

It received poor reception from criticsReviews of Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal:

In 2018, Agnihotri wrote Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam, in which he described individuals in academia and media who were allegedly colluding with Naxalites in a bid to overthrow the Indian government and were thus "invisible enemies of India" as "Urban Naxals".

Critics said the term is "vague rhetoric" that is designed to discredit intellectuals who are critical of the establishment and political right and to stifle dissent.Coverage and commentary on the term in mainstream media:

In 2022, Agnihotri has received the National Kishore Kumar Samman.

In September 2018, Twitter locked his account until he agreed to delete a tweet denigrating Swara Bhaskar.

In response to Swara calling out politician P. C. George, who called an alleged rape victim a prostitute, Vivek tweeted "Where is the placard - '#MeTooProstituteNun'?".

The tweet was interpreted as calling Swara a prostitute.

Agnihotri defended his tweet and said he was making a point about the placarding by liberals at selective instances of alleged perpetrators belonging to the Hindu community.Sources covering the episode:

Vivek Agnihotri and his team, including Pallavi Joshi and Abhishek Agarwal, had issued a legal notice to Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal.

2020

On 15 September 2020, Agnihotri was appointed as cultural representative at Indian Council for Cultural Relations.

He would represent Indian Cinema at ICCR.