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Ashutosh Gowariker
Highest Rated: 95% Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
Lowest Rated: 36% Mohenjo Daro (2016)
Birthday: Feb 15, 1964
Birthplace: Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India
Ashutosh Gowariker is a screenwriter director, producer, and actor in film and television. After roughly a decade in acting, Gowariker directed his first film (which he also wrote the screenplay for), the mystery thriller "Pehla Nasha." In 1995, he directed Bollywood star Aamir Khan in the crime-thriller "Baazi," a three-hour film about the framing of an inspector and his struggle for justice. After completing his acting career through the late-1990s, Gowarider returned to directing in 2001, with the even longer epic "Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India," which starred Khan again, who also produced. The film, about a cricket match between India and its British rulers, won numerous awards, including a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2002. Other Gowarkier-directed epics, running over 200 minutes each, include the 2004 drama "Swades" and the 2008 love story "Jodhaa Akbar," each multiple-award winners in their home country.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 100% | Toolsidas Junior |
Writer, Producer |
- | 2022 |
| 43% | 65% | Panipat - The Great Betrayal | Director | $461.9K | 2019 |
| 36% | 48% | Mohenjo Daro |
Director, Screenwriter, Writer |
$1.3M | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 100% | Ventilator | Raja (Character) | - | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | 49% | Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | 32% | What's Your Raashee? |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 2009 |
| 79% | 78% | Jodhaa Akbar |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$3.4M | 2008 |
| 88% | 91% | Swades |
Director, Producer, Writer |
$1.2M | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Madness in the Desert | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
| 95% | 93% | Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India |
Director, Screenwriter, Writer |
$905.9K | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | 45% | Baazi |
Director, Writer |
- | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Vazir | Unknown (Character) | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pehla Nasha | Director | - | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jaanam | Arun Rao (Character) | - | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | 71% | Don't Cry for Salim | Abdul (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ek Ratra Mantarleli | Unknown (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Death of Kamla | Deepak (Character) | - | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | West Is West | Vikran (Character) | - | 1987 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 83% | 86% | Kaala Paani | Admiral Zibran Qadri (Character) | 2023 |