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Farhad Samji (born 5 May 1974) is an Indian music composer, writer, and film director who works in Hindi cinema. He is known for directing films like Housefull 4 and Bachchhan Paandey independently. He has also made special appearances in films like Baaghi 3 and Coolie No. 1.[1] He is famous for his works with his brother, Sajid Samji. The duo together is known as Sajid - Farhad and are infamously known for directing films like Entertainment and Housefull 3.

Farhad Samji
Born	05 May 1974 (1974-05-05) (age 48) Mumbai, India
Occupation	Film director writer composer
Years active	1987–present
Relatives	Sajid Samji (brother)

Career

Farhad started his career with his brother in 2002 as lyricists. After that they started writing dialogues since Shiva in 2006. Their last movie was Simmba in 2018.In 2019, apart from writing dialogues for Punjabi film Singham, he directed web series Booo Sabki Phategi and the action comedy movie Housefull 4 (starring Akshay Kumar and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, which was the fourth part of Housefull franchise and became a blockbuster despite of critically negative reviews).[2]

Samji wrote dialogues for the 2020 films Street Dancer 3D, Baaghi 3 and Coolie No. 1. He has completed his next directorial, the Akshay Kumar and Kriti Sanon 2021 starrer Bachchan Pandey, whose shooting took place from January to March 2021.[3] Samji will also make the social family comedy Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali starring Salman Khan and Pooja Hegde, which begins filming in October 2021 and is expected to release as of Bakri-Eid 2022. Both films are produced by Sajid Nadiadwala.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

As director

Film	Year	Notes	Ref.
Entertainment	2014	Directed with Sajid
Housefull 3	2016	Directed with Sajid
Baby Come Naa	2018	Web series
Booo Sabki Phategi	2019	Web series
Housefull 4
Bachchhan Paandey	2022
Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan	2023	Filming	[4]

As writer

Film	Year	Notes
Singham	2019	(dialogues)
Baaghi 3	2020	(screenplay, dialogues)
Street Dancer 3D	2020	(dialogues)
Laxmii	2020	(adapted screenplay, dialogues)
Coolie No. 1	2020	(dialogues)
Sooryavanshi	2021	(dialogues)
Bhool bhulaiyaa 2	2022	(dialogues)
Bachchhan Pandey	2022	(dialogues)

As lyricist

Film	Year	Song	Notes
Prassthanam	2019	"Prassthanam Title Track"	Also music director.
Laxmii	2020	"Mata Ka Jagrata"	also singer
Coolie No. 1		"Coolie No. 1 Title Track"

As singer

Film	Year	Song	Notes
Housefull 4	2019	"The Bhoot Song"	also co-music director
Laxmii	2020	"Mata Ka Jagrata"	also lyricist

As music composer

Film	Year	Song	Notes
Housefull 4	2019	"The Bhoot Song"	composer along with Sandeep Shirodkar; also singer along with Mika Singh and lyricist
Prassthanam	2019	"Prassthanam Title Track"	Also lyricist.

Works with Sajid

As Lyricist

Year	Film	Songs
2002	Hum Kisise Kum Nahin
	Chor Machaaye Shor
2003	No
2006	Lage Raho Munna Bhai
	Keerthi Chakra	Khuda Se Mannat
2008	Sunday
	God Tussi Great Ho
2012	Bol Bachchan	Bol Bachchan
2016	Housefull 3

As Writer

Year	Film	Director	Notes
2006	Shiva	Ram Gopal Varma	dialogues
2007	Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag
2008	Sunday	Rohit Shetty	Screenplay, dialogues
	Golmaal Returns		dialogues
2009	All the Best: Fun Begins
2010	Golmaal 3
2011	Ready	Anees Bazmee
	Double Dhamaal	Indra Kumar
	Singham	Rohit Shetty
2012	Housefull 2	Sajid Khan
	Bol Bachchan	Rohit Shetty
2013	Himmatwala	Sajid Khan
	Chashme Baddoor	David Dhawan
	Policegiri	K.S. Ravikumar
	Chennai Express	Rohit Shetty
	Boss	Anthony D'Souza
2014	Entertainment	Sajid-Farhad	Screenplay, dialogues
	Singham Returns	Rohit Shetty	dialogues
2015	Dilwale
2016	Housefull 3	Sajid-Farhad	screenplay, dialogues
2017	Judwaa 2	David Dhawan	dialogues
	Golmaal Again	Rohit Shetty
2018	Simmba		Additional screenplay written by Sajid samji while dialogues were written by Farhad samji.

As Director

Year	Film	Notes
2014	Entertainment
2016	Housefull 3
2022	Bachchan Pandey

Awards and nominations

• Nominated for Producers Guild Film Awards for Writing Dialogue for the movie Singham (2019 film)[5]

References

External links

• Farhad Samji at IMDb

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