Rohit Shetty (
Tulu:ರೋಹಿತ್ ಶೆಟ್ಟಿ) is a
film director,
presenter and
cinematographer. He is the son of the late actor and fight master M. B. Shetty, who acted in some
Hindi and
Kannada movies. He is married and has two children. He started his career at the age of 15 as an assistant director with Kuku Kohli on the film
Phool Aur Kaante starring
Ajay Devgn; he directed his first feature film,
Zameen, as an independent director with Devgan in 2003 at the age of 29.
He is from India, from the city of
Mangalore in
Karnataka. He was interested in films since childhood as he belonged to a film family. At 13 or 14, he was certain that he wanted to be a director and never thought of becoming an actor.
Then he started working, first as an apprentice with Kuku Kohli during
Phool Aur Kaante (Ajay Devgan's debut film that costarred Madhoo). Then he assisted him in
Ek Aur Kohinoor, which was never released. He also worked with him on
Suhaag (Ajay, Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor),
Haqeeqat (1995) (Ajay, Tabu) and
Zulmi (Akshay, Twinkle Khanna).
By then, he had developed a good rapport with
Ajay Devgn. After that he started working with
Anees Bazmee on
Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha (Ajay, Kajol), followed by Ajay's home productions,
Hindustan Ki Kasam and
Raju Chacha.
During the making of
Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha, he knew he was ready to make his own film. When they were planning
Raju Chacha, it was decided that he would make his directorial debut after
Ajay......
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