Rohit Shetty

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Rohit Shetty is a film director presenter and cinematographer He is the son of the late actor and fight master M B Shetty who acted in many 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 Devgans 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 Ajays 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 Devgan and Ajay would act in it Shetty is also the judge of a comedy show known as Comedy Circus Description above from the Wikipedia article Rohit Shetty licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia