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 (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

, screenwriter and lyricist. He has written songs for Ugly, Daas Dev and Veere Di Wedding. 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 The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT- Roorkee or IIT-R) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India. It was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in 1847 d ...

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 '' Daas Dev'' (2018) and '' Veere Di Wedding'' (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 '' Tandav'' in 2021.

Books

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

Jaipur Literature Festival The Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), often hailed as the "''greatest literary show on Earth''," is a renowned annual cultural and literary festival held in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Established in 2006 by writers Namita Gokhale and William Dalry ...

in 2018. It was among the top three Hindi books in the Dainik Jagran Nielsen Bookscan 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