Shree Narayan Singh is an
Indian film
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director and editor, known for films such as ''
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha'' (2017),
Batti Gul Meter Chalu
''Batti Gul Meter Chalu'' (; ) is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Shree Narayan Singh and produced by Bhushan Kumar, Nitin Chandrachud, Nishant Pitti and Krishan Kumar. The film tells the story of inflated electricity bil ...
(2018) and ''
Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai'' (2012).
Career
Singh was born in Balrampur, UP.
Before venturing into film direction, Singh worked as a film editor in films like ''
A Wednesday
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'' (2008), ''
Special 26
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'' (2013), ''
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story'' (2016) and ''
Rustom'' (2016). He started his career as an editor for ''
Don Muthu Swami'' and as a director in ''
Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai''.
His second directorial was ''
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha'' and it starred
Akshay Kumar
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and
Bhumi Pednekar
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After working as an assistant ...
. The film was produced by
Ajit Andhare
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Career
Ajit currently serves as the chief operating officer at Viacom 18 Motion Pictures (VMP), the motion pictures business of V ...
and Prernaa Arora, under the banner of
Viacom 18 Motion Pictures
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and
KriArj Entertainment.
Made on a budget of 750 million, the film grossed 1.68 billion in domestic areas and 2 billion in the worldwide areas.
Singh was nominated for Filmfare awards under the best director category for the film ''Toilet: Ek Prem Katha''.
In February 2018, it was announced that Singh would be directing ''
Batti Gul Meter Chalu
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'' which stars
Shahid Kapoor
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,
Shraddha Kapoor
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and
Yami Gautam
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in lead roles and is produced by
Bhushan Kumar
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and
Krishan Kumar under
T-Series and Prernaa Arora under
KriArj Entertainment.
Filmography
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Singh, Shree Narayan
1981 births
Living people
Film directors from Mumbai
Hindi film editors
Hindi-language film directors
Film editors from Maharashtra