Bejoy Nambiar (born 12 April 1979) is an
Indian film director, and screenwriter known for his work in
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, is primarily produced in Mumbai. The popular term Bollywood is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (former name of Mumbai) and "Cinema of the United States, Hollywood". The in ...
. He is mostly known for his critically acclaimed short films, ''Rahu'' and ''
Reflections'', starring
Mohanlal
Mohanlal Viswanathan (; born 21 May 1960), known mononymously as Mohanlal, is an Indian actor and filmmaker who predominantly works in Malayalam cinema, Malayalam cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil cinema, Tamil, Hin ...
. He was the winner of
Sony PIX Gateway to Hollywood, as the best director judged by
Ashok Amritraj,
Rajat Kapoor and
Anurag Basu. He marked his feature film debut with the thriller ''
Shaitan'' (2011). His second feature film was the anthology-drama film ''David'', produced in
Hindi
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and
Tamil versions. His latest Bollywood film was
Taish (2020) which was also released as a Series on
ZEE5
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. He also directed
Wazir (2016), starring
Amitabh Bachchan and
Farhan Akhtar. He has also directed a short video 'Sachinocalypse' for
All India Bakchod.
Personal life
His mother tongue is Malayalam. Nambiar was married to
Juhi Babbar on 27 June 2007, after a two-year courtship; the couple divorced in January 2009. He then married his long-time girlfriend
Sheetal Menon in a traditional Malayali wedding in
Kerala
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on 27 December 2015.
Filmography
Television
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
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Living people
Malayalam film directors
Tamil film directors
Hindi-language film directors
1979 births
Film producers from Kerala
People from Kannur district
Artists from Kannur
Screenwriters from Kerala
Hindi-language screenwriters
21st-century Indian people
Film directors from Kannur district