Gaurav Solanki (born 7 July, 1986) is an Indian fiction writer,

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

, screenwriter and lyricist. He has written songs for Ugly,

Daas Dev ''Daas Dev'' () is an Indian Hindi-language romantic political thriller directed by Sudhir Mishra and story concept by Zuhaebb. The film stars Rahul Bhat as Dev Pratap Chauhan, Richa Chadda as Paro, Aditi Rao Hydari as Chandni, and Saurabh S ...

and

Veere Di Wedding ''Veere Di Wedding'' () is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language female buddy comedy film directed by Shashanka Ghosh and produced by Rhea Kapoor, Ekta Kapoor and Nikhil Dwivedi. Loosely based on the 2015 film '' The Wedding Ringer'', the film stars ...

. In 2012, he was awarded Jnanpeeth's Navlekhan Puraskar which he refused to accept. He has written much acclaimed film Article 15.

Early life and education

Gaurav Solanki was born in

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( U.P.) and grew up in Sangaria (

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). He graduated from

IIT Roorkee Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India, and was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in Brit ...

Career

His first break in films was

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's '' Ugly'' (2014) for which he wrote lyrics. Kashyap also bought the rights to his story "Hisar mein Hahakar". Solanki wrote songs for ''

'' (2018) and ''

'' (2018). His screenplay ''Nisaar'' was selected for Drishyam Films

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Screenwriters Lab, 2016. In 2019, he wrote the film '' Article 15''. He also wrote the web series ''

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'' in 2021.

Books

Solanki's first short-story collection, ''Gyrahvin-A ke Ladke'', was released at the

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in 2018. It was among the top three Hindi books in the

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bestseller list in its first quarter.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Solanki, Gaurav 1986 births Living people 21st-century Indian writers People from Meerut district IIT Roorkee alumni