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Saurabh Shukla (born 9 March 1969) is an Indian actor, screenwriter, and film director who works in Hindi films. He is famous for his roles in Satya (1998), Nayak: The Real Hero (2001), Yuva (2004), Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006), Barfi! (2012), Jolly LLB (2013), Kick (2014), PK (2014), Jolly LLB 2 (2017) and Raid (2018). He has also worked in a short documentary with Ruth Agnihotri and Rachael Agnihotri in Goa.

Saurabh Shukla
Shukla at the screening of Sonata
Born	5 March 1963 (1963-03-05) (age 59) Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Occupation	Actor, film director, screenwriter
Years active	1984–present

In 2014, he won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Jolly LLB.[1]

Early life

Born to Jogamaya Shukla, who was the first female tabla player of India and Shatrughan Shukla, a vocalist from Agra Gharana, Shukla's family left Gorakhpur for Delhi when he was two years old. He completed his schooling and did graduation from S.G.T.B. Khalsa College, Delhi. His professional career began in 1984 with entry into the theatre.[2]

Career

Shukla began serious theatre in 1986 with roles in plays like A View From The Bridge (Arthur Miller), Look Back in Anger (John Osborne), Ghashiram Kotwal (Vijay Tendulkar) and Hayvadan. In 1991, he joined the NSD Repertoire Company – the professional wing of the National School of Drama – as an actor.[2] The next year he got his first break when Shekhar Kapur, impressed with his work, created a role for him in Bandit Queen.[3]

Shukla also did the role of Vijay Anand's sidekick Gopi in the 1994 Doordarshan crime drama Tehkikaat. The series was directed by Karan Razdan, but Kapur directed the first episode. He also wrote and acted in Zee TV's 9 Malabar Hill.[4]

He also appeared in a recurring albeit a short role of an aamir's jasoos (chieftain's spy) in the 1990s Doordarshan TV serial Mulla Nasiruddin, which had Raghubir Yadav in the lead role. The series was based on the folklore of Mulla Nasiruddin.

Shukla is also a part of a comic theater play 2 to Tango, 3 to Jive.[5]

Breakthrough (1998–present)

Shukla's biggest break came when he co-wrote the script for Ram Gopal Varma's 1998 cult classic Satya and played the role of gangster Kallu Mama in the film.[6] He won the Star Screen Award for Best Screenplay alongside Anurag Kashyap.

"Why do I make realistic films, like Satya? Because that's the kind of films I like to do. Capturing reality is very difficult and challenging," he said in a 2000 interview to Rediff.com, making it clear that he prefers realism in his scripts. In the same interview he also talked about his preferred genre of film making – comedy:

If you carefully see my work, it is all [comedy]. We usually categorize subjects as comedy and serious. But there is more than just this. Like when we laugh, we sometimes also cry. There can be certain viciousness to this action if there is too much of it. It is the same with romance, which gets too much after a point. There is always a comic element in every situation.[7]

In 2003, he wrote the screenplay for Calcutta Mail. He received his first award for this film, the Zee Cine Award for Best Screenplay. In 2008, he acted in his first international film, the Golden Globe and Academy Award-winning Slumdog Millionaire, as the character Constable Srinivas. In 2013, he appeared as policeman Sudhanshu Dutta in Barfi!, a film through which director Anurag Basu and co-actor Ranbir Kapoor, he said, "revived [him] as an actor".[8]

Filmography

As actor

Key

Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1994	Bandit Queen	Kailash
1996	Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin	Vilas Pandey
1998	Kareeb	Birju's father
1998	Zakhm	Gurdayal Singh
1998	Satya	Kallu Mama
1999	Taal	Banerjee
1999	Arjun Pandit	Johnny
1999	Baadshah	Saxena
1999	Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan	Mr. Malhotra "Chhotey"
2000	Hey Ram	Manohar Lalwani	Hindi-Tamil bilingual film.
2000	Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!	Gaitonde
2000	Mohabbatein	Sanjana's father
2000	Snip!	Munna
2001	Nayak: The Real Hero	Pandurang
2001	Yeh Teraa Ghar Yeh Meraa Ghar	Mama Kaanden
2001	Moksha	Kale
2002	Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai	Lachhu Mama
2002	Karz: The Burden of Truth	Suraj's drunk friend	Uncredited
2003	Yeh Dil	Economics Teacher
2003	Calcutta Mail	Ghatak
2003	Raghu Romeo	Mario
2003	Xcuse Me	Hotel Manager
2003	Mumbai Matinee	Nitin Kapoor
2003	Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi	Senior Bihari Constable
2003	Mudda - The Issue	Dinanath
2004	Yuva	Gopal
2005	Balu ABCDEFG	Khan's brief	Telugu film
2005	Mumbai Xpress	Kishore Mehta
2005	Anniyan	Cable Company Owner	Tamil film Dubbed as Aparichitudu in Telugu and Aparichit (2006) in Hindi
2005	Yakeen	Chamanlal
2005	Home Delivery	Pandey
2005	Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow	Rajesh Jalan
2005	Chehraa	Director
2005	Allari Bullodu	Karim Lala	Telugu film
2006	Mixed Doubles	Sammy
2006	Lage Raho Munna Bhai	Batuk Maharaj
2006	Care of Footpath	Ranga	Kannada film
2007	Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love	Dotcom Paaji
2007	Khoya Khoya Chand	Producer Khosa
2007	Showbiz	Inder Raj Bahl
2008	My Name is Anthony Gonsalves	Murthy
2008	Mithya	Shetty
2008	De Taali	Godbole
2008	Hari Puttar: A Comedy of Terrors	Diesel
2008	Slumdog Millionaire	Head Constable Srinivas	English/Hindi film
2008	Dasvidaniya	Dasgupta
2008	Oh, My God	God
2009	Luck By Chance	Nand Kishore
2009	Love Khichdi	Krishnan
2009	Chintu Ji	Malkani
2010	Tera Kya Hoga Johnny	Begum
2010	Lahore	Madhav Suri
2010	Paathshaala	Lallan Sharma
2010	Mirch	Satish
2011	Utt Pataang	Nandu Pandey
2011	Yeh Saali Zindagi	Mehta
2011	Aarakshan	Mantri Baburao
2011	Shakal Pe Mat Ja	Vijay Dinanath Chauhan
2011	Pappu Can't Dance Saala	Producer of dance album
2012	Staying Alive	Shaukat Ali
2012	I M 24
2012	Barfi!	Sudhanshu Dutta	Nominated—IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated— Apsara Film & Television Producers Guild Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
2012	Delhi Safari	Bharela	Voice only
2012	The Last Act	Theatre troupe director
2013	David	David's father
2013	Jolly LLB	Justice Sunderlal Tripathi	National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor Screen Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—IIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor
2013	Phata Poster Nikhla Hero	Gundappa Das
2013	Kalpvriksh	Shankar Dada
2014	Gunday	Kaali Kaka
2014	Main Tera Hero	Balli
2014	Gang of Ghosts	Bhoothnath Bhaduri
2014	Ek Tho Chance	TBA
2014	Kick	Brijesh Mehra
2014	PK	Tapasvi Maharaj
2015	Kaun Kitne Paani Mein	Braj Singh Deo
2015	Mohalla Assi	Upadhyay Pandit
2016	Dhilluku Dhuddu	Kajal's father	Tamil film dubbed as Raj Mahal 3 (2017) in Hindi.
2017	Jolly LLB 2	Justice Sunderlal Tripathi
2017	The Wishing Tree (2017)	Dhaba Owner
2017	Jagga Jasoos	Ex IB Officer Sinha
2018	Raid	Rameshwar "Rajaji" Singh a.k.a. "Tauji"
2018	Shabhash Kundu	Robin Roy
2018	Daas Dev	Awadesh Pratap Chauhan
2019	Fraud Saiyaan	Murari Chaurasia
2019	Family Of Thakurganj	Baba Bhandari
2019	Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?	Nayyar	Remake of classic Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai[9]
2019	The Zoya Factor	Nikhil's dad
2019	The Verdict - State vs Nanavati	Russi Karanjia	Web series on ALTBalaji and ZEE5
2019	Ujda Chaman	Guruji	[10]
2019	Bala	Hari Shukla
2019	Pagalpanti	Raja Sahab	[11]
2019	Aadhaar	Parmanand Singh
2020	Chhalaang	Mr. Shukla
2021	Madam Chief Minister	Master Suraj Bhan
2021	The Big Bull	Manu Malpani
2021	Tadap[12]	Ishana's father
2022	Shamshera	Shamshera's friend, Bali's ally
2022	Drishyam 2	Murad Ali
TBA	Identity Card	Ghulam Nabi	Post-production
TBA	No Rules for Fools	TBA	Post-production
TBA	Manohar Pandey	TBA

As writer and director

Year	Film	Director	Producer	Screenwriter	Notes
1998	Satya			Yes	Star Screen Awards for Best Screenplay with Anurag Kashyap
2000	Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!			Yes
2003	Raghu Romeo			Yes
	Calcutta Mail			Yes	Nominated—Zee Cine Award for Best Screenplay
	Mudda - The Issue	Yes		Yes
2005	Chehraa	Yes		Yes
	Mumbai Xpress			Yes
2007	Salaam-e-Ishq: A Tribute to Love			Yes
2008	Mithya			Yes
2009	Acid Factory			Yes
	Raat Gayi Baat Gayi?	Yes		Yes	New York South Asian International Film Festival for Best Film with Rajat Kapoor
2011	Utt Pataang			Yes
	Pappu Can't Dance Saala	Yes	Yes	Yes
2012	Fatso!			Yes
	I M 24	Yes		Yes

As lyricist

Year	Film	Notes
2006	Mixed Doubles

Awards

Shukla won the National Film Award and the Screen Award for the Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Jolly LLB.[13]

References

External links

• Saurabh Shukla at IMDb

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