Director

Nitesh Tiwari

Directing

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Directed movies: 5Directed series: 0All crew credits: 15

TMDB ID: 1042010

IMDb ID: nm4318159

Known for: Directing

Born: May 22, 1973

Age: 53

Place of birth: Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2011 - 2026

Years active: 16

Average TMDB rating: 6.85

Wikidata: Q16908467

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Biography

Nitesh Tiwari (born 22 May 1973) is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and lyricist known for his works in Bollywood. He made his directorial debut by co-directing Chillar Party (2011) which won the National Film Award for Best Children's Film for that year. He then directed the supernatural political drama Bhoothnath Returns (2014) which became a box office hit. In 2016, he scripted, and directed Dangal which was screened at the Beijing International Film Festival in April 2017 and second BRICS festival in June 2017. The film is the highest-grossing Indian films and the fifth highest grossing non-English film, having collected over ₹2,000 crore (US$280 million) of which more than ₹1,200 crore was earned in China, where it has emerged as one of the top 20 highest-grossers of all time.