Mukul S. Anand

Mukul S. Anand and Subhash Ghai are two directors, who tried to re-establish the big Hindi epos of the 1960s and 1970s in an era, when Hindi films were on an all-time low. With huge starcasts, great songs and soundtracks and plots containing action and drama, they preserved the type of Bollywood movie, which has again become fashionable today, in the 1980s and early 1990s. Mukul S. Anand made his debut with the Gujarati movie Kanku Ni Keemat. His early Hindi films were not very successful, but from 1990 to 1992 he landed three big hits with the Amitabh Bachchan starrers Agneepath, Hum and Khuda Gawah.

Khuda Gawah was Amitabh Bachchan's farewell to the silver screen. It stars Shilpa Shirodkar, Sri Deviand introduces the Telugu hero Nagarjuna to the Hindi screen. With the cracking songs of Laxmikant-Pyarelal and a brilliant cinematography that takes you from medieval Afghanistan to contemporary India, Khuda Gawah is among the biggest Bollywood movies of the early 1990s.

Mukul S. Anand's next film Trimurti and brought Shah Rukh Khan together with Anil Kapoor and Jackie Shroff for the first time. The film failed at the box office, but is one of the most interesing movies of the mid 1990s. Anand's last project, which was partly shot in the US, was the film Dus, which was never released. On the 7th of September 1997 Mukul S. Anand died untimely at the age of 45. He was survived by his wife Anita and his two kids Alishka and Mikhail.

Filmography

As Director

1. Dus, 1997
2. Trimurti, 1995
3. Khuda Gawah, 1992
4. Hum, 1991
5. Khoon Ka Karz, 1991
6. Agneepath, 1990
7. Maha Sangram, 1990
8. Insaaf, 1987
9. Maa Ki Saugandh, 1986
10. Main Balwan, 1986
11. Sultanat, 1986
12. Aitbaar, 1985
13. Kanoon Kya Karega, 1984
14. Kanku Ni Keemat, 1983

As Producer

1. Prithvi, 1997
2. Army, 1996