Mukul S. Anand Explained

Mukul S. Anand
Birth Date:1951 10, df=yes
Birth Place:Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Death Place:Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupation:film director
Relatives:Inder Raj Anand, Tinnu Anand
Spouse:Anita
Children:Mikhail, Alishka

Mukul S. Anand (11 October 1951 – 7 September 1997) was an Indian film director and producer. He was the nephew of veteran film scriptwriter Inder Raj Anand and cousin of actor and director Tinnu Anand.[1] [2]

Career

Mukul S. Anand made his debut as a director with the suspense thriller Kanoon Kya Karega (1984), which was inspired by the Hollywood film Cape Fear. His second film Aitbaar (1985) was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's classic Dial M for Murder. The film that first gained him recognition was the epic film Sultanat (1986), which brought together real-life father and son Dharmendra and Sunny Deol for the first time and introduced actress Juhi Chawla. That same year Anand also directed the thriller Main Balwan.

His first box-office success was Insaaf (1987), the film responsible for "re-introducing" Vinod Khanna to films after a hiatus. Anand's next film, Maha-Sangram (1990), reunited him with Vinod Khanna.

He finally hit the big league with the Scarface-inspired crime thriller Agneepath (1990) with Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role, which won Amitabh a National Award for Best Actor. He was reunited with Bachchan for the family drama Hum (1991), which was a box-office success and featured the popular song "Jumma Chumma". He worked with Bachchan for the final time in the epic film Khuda Gawah (1992) which won him the Filmfare Best Director Award. His last completed film, Trimurti (1995), which had a multi-star cast including Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor and Shahrukh Khan, failed to do well at the box office. The film he was working on at the time of his death in 1997 was Dus, which remained incomplete and unreleased, although the film's music did end up being released posthumously.

Personal life

Inder Raj Anand who was a film scriptwriter from the late 1940s through to the late 1980s was Mukul Anand's uncle. Mukul's cousin is actor and director Tinnu Anand. Mukul was married to Anita and had two children named Alishka and Mikhail. Daughter Aliksha Anand is married to producer, actor Romesh Sharma's son actor Karan Sharma who acted in the 2005 Bollywood film Dil Jo Bhi Kahey....

Death

Mukul died of a heart attack at the age of 45 on 7 September 1997. He was on location for action film Dus in Utah. The film began production in May 1997 and 40% of the shooting had been completed by August.[3]

Filmography

YearFilmwidth=65Director width=65Producerwidth=65WriterNotes
1983Kanku Ni Kimat Gujarati film
1984Kanoon Kya Karega
1985Aitbaar
1986Main Balwan
1986Sultanat
1987Insaaf
1990Maha-Sangram
1990Agneepath
1991Hum
1991Khoon Ka Karz
1992Khuda Gawah
1995Trimurti
1996Army
1997Prithvi
UnreleasedDus[4]

References

  1. Web site: Sands of Time - Part 24: Mukul Anand - The Merchant of Really Large Things. 25 March 2022. Roychoudhury. Amborish. Outlook. 3 January 2024. 4 October 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231004084221/https://www.outlookindia.com/culture-society/sands-of-time-part-24-mukul-anand-the-merchant-of-really-large-things-news-187687. live.
  2. News: Remembering Mukul Anand: Gone but not forgotten. Monojit. Lahiri. 7 September 2020. National Herald. https://web.archive.org/web/20240103081943/https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/films/remembering-mukul-anand-gone-but-not-forgotten#bypass-sw. 3 January 2024. 3 January 2024.
  3. Web site: A tribute to director Mukul Anand. Rediff.com. Suparn. Verma. Suparn Verma. 8 September 1997. 4 January 2024. 27 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201127054032/https://www.rediff.com/movies/sep/08muk.htm. live.
  4. Web site: Action films might have been different had the Sanjay Dutt-Salman Khan starrer ‘Dus’ been completed. Manish. Gaekwad. 18 July 2016. Scroll.in. 3 January 2024. 28 August 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230828180815/https://scroll.in/reel/811905/action-films-might-have-been-different-had-the-sanjay-dutt-salman-khan-starrer-dus-been-completed. live.

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