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Rajkumar Hirani
The director of 3 Idiots and the Munna Bhai films, known for mixing comedy with criticism of social institutions.
Lage Raho Munna Bhai · 3 Idiots
- Born
- 20 November 1962
- Birthplace
- India
More people
Rajkumar Hirani
Rajkumar Hirani builds popular Hindi films around outsiders who question accepted rules. Medicine, education and religion have all become settings for his warm, accessible satire.
Early life
Nagpur
Grew up in a Sindhi family in central India.
Film school
Studied editing at the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune.
Career
- 1990s
Editing and advertising
Worked in editing and commercial filmmaking.
- 2003
Feature debut
Directed Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
- 2006
Established director
Followed with Lage Raho Munna Bhai.
- 2023
Migration comedy
Directed Dunki, extending his interest in social issues through popular comedy.
Selected work
Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Places Gandhian ideas inside a contemporary comedy.
3 Idiots
Questions academic pressure through three engineering students.
PK
Uses an outsider’s questions to examine religious practice.
Beyond work
Editing
His formal training in editing remained part of his filmmaking method.
Collaboration
Regularly developed screenplays with Abhijat Joshi.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Career and work — redchillies.com ↗Photo: Bollywood Hungama. CC BY 3.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
