- Born
- Birth nameVivek Ranjan Agnihotri
- Height5′ 7¼″ (1.71 m)
- Vivek Agnihotri (born 10th November) is an avant garde Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. Agnihotri is one of the few new age Hindi cinema film directors, known to experiment in different genres of film making. He has ventured into genres like erotica, thriller, sports, political dramas and love stories making him a multiple genre director. He is credited to direct India's first mainstream football film (Dhana Dhan Goal) at a time when not many producers were investing in sports films in Bollywood. Agnihotri also directed India's first Erotic thriller (Hate Story) that was produced by Vikram Bhatt and was a critical and commercial success.
Agnihotri made his directorial debut with Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets (2005) which had multiple stars with Anil Kapoor, Emraan Hashmi, Sunil Shetty, Irfan Khan, Sushma Reddy and Tanushree Dutta in lead roles. Its still rated as one of the most stylized suspense drama. Chocolate has been listed as one of the best city (London) films.
Vivek Agnihotri's upcoming films include Buddha in a Traffic Jam that is set on the backdrop of the Maoist movement in India. Another of his upcoming film is named Freedom which is a hard hitting political drama. Agnihotri is also directing a psychological drama Zid that would be produced by Anubhav Sinha. In 2002, he created his production house named Vivek Agnihotri Creates Pvt Ltd.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Abhimanyu Kukreja
- SpousePallavi Joshi(? - present) (2 children)
- ParentsPrabhu Dayal AgnihotriSharda Agnihotri
- Vivek is the only Indian director to have been given permission to shoot in Manchester United's Old Trafford football ground.
- All his films; Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets (2005), Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007), Hate Story (2012), Buddha in a Traffic Jam (2016), Freedom (unreleased) were shot in deep winter. His cinematic style of shooting under the winter sky with winter costumes gives a different visual impact in most of his films. Most of his films are inspired from nature.
- While shooting for Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007), John Abraham was very touchy about his long hair. Agnihotri successfully convinced John to cut his hair to look like a short haired footballer.
- Related to Marathi actor Vijay Kadam whose married to Padmashri Joshi elder sister of of his wife Pallavi Joshi.
- Agnihotri created a new look for Anil Kapoor in Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets (2005) that became very popular. Anil Kapoor was given a military crew hair cur, different glasses and a Cigar to make him look matured. This was for the first time that Anil Kapoor played a mature role that was at par with his real age.
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