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Indian director and producer
Mukul S. Anand
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Born
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1951-10-11
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11 October 1951
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Died
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(1997-09-07)
(aged 45)
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Occupation
| film director
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Spouse
| Anita
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Children
| Mikhail, Alishka
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Relatives
| Inder Raj Anand
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Tinnu Anand
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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
.
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Career
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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
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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...
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Death
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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.
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1954?1970
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1971?1990
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1991?2010
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2011-present
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