Rohit Shetty

Biography

Rohit Shetty (born 14 March 1974) is an Indian film director, stuntman, writer, producer, and television host who works in Hindi cinema. His movies are often mixed genres of action, comedy, and masala films.

His breakthrough came with the first installment of the comedy film franchise Golmaal, Golmaal (2006) starring Ajay Devgn and Arshad Warsi, which became a sleeper hit. Further subsequent other successful films in the franchise included Golmaal Returns (2008) and Golmaal 3 (2010), which became one of the highest-grossing films of the year.

Shetty returned to the action genre with Singham (2011) eight years after his debut action thriller Zameen. It also starred Ajay Devgn in the lead, the film turned out one of the highest grosser of the year. Later on, it expanded into the Cop Universe franchise with other successful films such as Singham Returns (2014), Simmba (2018), and Sooryavanshi (2021).

His other notable success includes Bol Bachchan (2012), Chennai Express (2013) starring Shah Rukh Khan, which became the highest-grossing Hindi film surpassing 3 Idiots at that time, and Dilwale (2015).

Apart from film directing, he has also hosted the stunt-based adventure show Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi since 2014.