Siddharth Anand
Siddharth Anand is an Indian film writer and director who works in Hindi cinema. He started his career as an assistant director on the 2001 film Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi and then wrote Hum Tum (2004) before making his directorial debut with the romantic comedy Salaam Namaste (2005), the highest earning Indian film of the year abroad, in which he also had a special appearance. After directing Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007), Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008) and Anjaana Anjaani (2010), he gained recognition helming the action films Bang Bang! (2014) and War (2019), both of which rank among the highest-grossing Indian films. His work in the latter resulted in him being nominated for a Filmfare Award for Best Director.[1]
Anand came back to direction in 2014 after a gap of 4 years with Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif starrer Bang Bang!, an official adaptation of a Hollywood film Knight and Day, that was highly successful at the box office and became Anand’s first film to enter 100 Crore Club.[3]
In 2017, Anand announced that he will direct and co-produce (with Yash Raj Films) the remakes of the five films of Sylvester Stallone’s Hollywood film franchise Rambo, that will star Tiger Shroff but it was getting delayed again & again due to major multiple reasons. And after three years, in 2020, he stepped down from direction whose command was finally given to director Rohit Dhawan, who is also his friend, but still he is co-producer.[4]
First reason for delaying Rambo remake was Anand’s fifth film with Yash Raj Films, the 2019 action thriller War starring Roshan and Shroff, which banged at the box office and surpassed many records upon its release, entering the 300 Crore Club and establishing Anand as a major film director.[5]
Since November 2020, Anand is the director for his currently shot film Pathan, produced again by YRF and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham as prominent characters.[6] Once he wraps up Pathan, he will begin work on FIGHTER. In January 2021, Siddharth Anand started his own production house named MARFLIX, a production house dedicated to action film making in India.
On January 10, 2021 on Hrithik Roshan’s Birthday, Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone announced that they will be working in Siddharth Anand’s directorial FIGHTER under his newly started production house named MARFLIX also his and his wife Mamta’s first outing as a producer, which is to be released on Sept 30, 2022.[7] Then Anand will begin to work on the sequel of War titled War 2 in which he will again reunite with Roshan.
