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Satish Chandra Kaushik (born 13 April 1956) is an Indian actor, director, producer, comedian and screenwriter.

Satish Kaushik
Kaushik in 2017
Born	Satish Chandra Kaushik (1956-04-13) 13 April 1956 (age 66) Mahendragarh, Haryana, India
Occupation	Actor filmmaker screenwriter comedian
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Shashi Kaushik ​ (m. 1985)​
Children	2

Early life

Satish was born on 13 April 1956 in Mahendragarh, Haryana.[1] He graduated from Kirori Mal College, Delhi in 1972.[2] He is an alumnus National School of Drama and Film and Television Institute of India.[3]

Career

As a film actor, he is noted for his roles as "Calendar" in Mr. India,,[4] as Pappu Pager in Deewana Mastana, and as "Chanu Ahmed" in Sarah Gavron's British film Brick Lane (2007). He won the Filmfare Best Comedian Award twice: in 1990 for Ram Lakhan and in 1997 for Saajan Chale Sasural.

As a theatre actor, his most noted role was that of "Willy Loman" in the Hindi-language play, Salesman Ramlal, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.[5]

He wrote dialogues for Kundan Shah's comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983).

His 2009 film Teree Sang, starring Ruslaan Mumtaz and Sheena Shahabadi, explores issues of teen pregnancy.[6]

His first film as a director was Sridevi's Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993). His second was Prem (1995), which was supposed to be Tabu's inaugural film. Both were box office disasters.[7] He continued to make films and got his first hit with Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in 1999.

He is well known for his role as "Calendar" in the hit film Mr. India, alongside Anil Kapoor and Sridevi. He also was noted for his character of "Pappu Pager" in the comedy Deewana Mastana (1997), directed by his friend David Dhawan.

He co-wrote and anchored a TV countdown show, Philips Top Ten, for which he won the Screen Videocon Award.

In 2005, Kaushik directed Arjun Rampal, Amisha Patel and Zayed Khan in Vaada.

In 2007 Kaushik, together with Anupam Kher, who had been his batchmate at NSD, launched a new film company called Karol Bagh Productions.[8] Their first film, Teree Sang, was directed by Satish Kaushik.[9]

His next work is based on the life of Tansen, one of the Navaratna in Akbar the Great's court. It is produced by Rajshri Productions. The role of Tansen will be played by Abhishek Bachchan, and the soundtrack will be composed by Ravindra Jain. The script for the film is being finished. Satish Kaushik is working to promote Haryana's film industry, and is committed to make five films there.

He was cast in the lead role of SAB TV's new show The Great Indian Family Drama, produced by Contiloe productions, as Nawaab Jung Bahadur. Now he decided to make sequel of his hit movie Tere Naam (2003). Recently, he played the role of Tayaji in the film Udta Punjab (2016).

Personal life

He is married to Shashi Kaushik since 1985.[10] His son, Shanu Kaushik died in 1996 when he was just two years old.[11] In 2012, his daughter Vanshika was born through a surrogate mother.[12]

Kaushik was a partner in the Chandigarh Film City project with the real estate company, Parsavnath developers. They bought 30-acre (12 ha) in Sarangpur Village, Chandigarh at throw-away prices. The real estate company was forced to give up this multi-million project after foul play was exposed by media.[13]

Filmography

References

External links

• Satish Kaushik at IMDb 
• Satish Kaushik at Bollywood Hungama

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Satish Kaushik es un director de cine y actor de teatro y de cine indio. Como actor de cine es más conocido por su papel como Calendar en Mr. India y como Chanu Ahmed en la película de habla inglesa Brick Lane dirigida por Sarah Gavron. Kaushik ganó el Premio Filmaware al mejor comediante en dos ocasiones, en 1990 por el filme Ram Lakhan y en 1997 por Saajan Chale Sasural. Su papel teatral más popular es su actuación como Willy Loman en la obra india Salesman Ramlal, una adaptación de la obra Muerte de un viajante de Arthur Miller.[1] Kaushik también escribió el diálogo de la película cómica Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, dirigida por Kundan Shah.

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