Kunal Kohli - Music Video Director
Kunal studied at the prestigious cathedral and john connon school in mumbai
. He was an avid film buff and loved watching hindi films. He was very much in admiration of filmmakers like guru dutt, raj khosla, vijay anand. Kunal desperately wanted to get into films, he wanted to make films.
But because he didnt have any professional contacts in the film industry, he decided to do any profession regarding films. He became a film reporter; he used to report on films for video magazines, people plus and bollywood plus, with mahesh bhatt.
Later, he became a film critic with the show chalo cinema on zee el tv in the 1990s and he did all this because he was not getting any opportunity to make films. So he became a film critic and he made film based shows on tv. He was one of the first few in india to make film based shows.
At one time, on zee tv, all the film based shows were made by him: kya scene hai, philips top ten, galaxzee, itara.
After film critiquing, kunal shifted to something where he could showcase his filmmaking talent; music videos. He introduced a new format in indian music videos, which till that time just had the singer singing and the dancers dancing in the background, kunal incorporated a story into a song.
He could tell stories through a five minute music video. Some of the music videos he directed were:, bali brahmabhatt tere bin jeena nahin, shiamak davar jaane kisne, hema sardesai bole humse kuch na gori, sukhbir sauda khura khura, alisha chinoy tu jo mila.
He directed about 24 music videos.But it was with bally sagoo mera laung gawacha and rajshri series of videos chui mui si tum, kunal started getting offers for directing feature films.
Kunal finally got signed by a big production company for directing a feature film, but kunal and the producers werent getting along well. Somehow, kunal bumped into karan johar. Karan suggested kunal to meet aditya chopra, who was on a hunt for new directors for yash raj films.
Apprehensive at first, kunal met aditya to narrate a story of his own. Aditya put forth a proposition that if he really wants to narrate his story, then he must resign from his current producers, but it wouldnt guarantee him the job. Kunal took the gamble, he left his producers.
Aditya heard his story, but didnt really get on to it. Kunal got anxious. Aditya suggested that they would work on the story together and Develop it. Thus, kunal got signed by yash raj films to direct mujhse dosti karoge. Kunal kohli made his directorial debut with mujhse dosti karoge (2002) which was produced by yash raj films.
It is about a love triangle of three friends played by hrithik roshan, rani mukerji and kareena kapoor. The film was heavily hyped before release due to the a list cast resulting in excessive media focus on the film. It however failed to do well at the indian box office due to lackluster reviews.
The failure of mujhse dosti karoge did not reduce yash raj films confidence in kunal and they gave him another chance with hum tum (2004). However, many actors who were offered the lead role in the film, hrithik roshan, aamir khan, vivek oberoi; refused. It eventually went to saif ali khan who was cast opposite rani mukherjee.
It was inspired by the hollywood film when harry met sally (1989). Hum tum proved to be a big hit at the boxoffice and saif ali khan went on to win the national award for best actor for the film. The treatment of the film and the effective use of animation gave kunal great recognition. Hum tum won 5 filmfare award including the best director award for kunal.
Kunal next film fanaa (2006), a romanticthriller, starring aamir khan and kajol, was amongst the top 5 grousers of the year. Kajol made a sensational comeback after four years and won the filmfare award for best actress.
Kunal launched his own production house kunal kohli productions and made the film thoda pyaar thoda magic (2008) starring saif ali khan, rani mukherjee and ameesha patel under his own banner. The movie was coproduced, completely financed and presented by yash raj films.
The film however failed at the ticket window and received lukewarm reviews. Kunal, under his production house kunal kohli productions, has made three television commercials; for lays with saif ali khan, tata indicom with ajay devgn kajol and reid & taylor with amitabh bachchan.
Kunal next production is break ke baad (2011) which would star imran khan and deepika padukone and will be directed by his assistant danish aslam. Kunal kohli is married to raveena kohli. Raveena has directed the television show koffee with karan. She also is an executive producer to yash raj films.
Kunal is an avid blogger and currently maintains his own blog on bollywoodhungama.com. He has also written guest columns for bombay times and india today.
by: Karishma Roy
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