Rohit Shetty

About Rohit Shetty

Rohit Shetty is a director and producer working in Hindi cinema and Gujarati cinema. Clapnumber holds 24 titles for Rohit Shetty, from Zameen in 2003 to Golmaal 5 in 2027. By decade, that is 6 in the 2000s, 11 in the 2010s and 5 in the 2020s. Those titles are mostly action, crime and drama.

Biography

Rohit Shetty (born 14 March 1974) is an Indian director, screenwriter, stuntman, producer and television personality who works in Hindi cinema. A notable director of Hindi cinema, his film often mix the genres of action comedy and masala films. His breakthrough came with the first installment of the comedy film franchise Golmaal (2006), starring Ajay Devgn, Tusshar Kapoor and Arshad Warsi, which became a sleeper hit. Further subsequent successes in the franchise included Golmaal Returns (2008), Golmaal 3 (2010) and Golmaal Again (2017), each of which went on to rank among the highest-grossing films of the year. Shetty returned to the action genre with Singham (2011) after eight years of his debut action thriller Zameen (2003), which also starred Devgn in the lead; the film turned out to be one of the highest grossers of the year. Later on, it expanded into the Cop Universe with other successful films such as Singham Returns (2014), Simmba (2018) and Sooryavanshi (2021). His other notable successes include All the Best: Fun Begins (2009), Bol Bachchan (2012), and Chennai Express (2013); the latter became the highest grossing Hindi film, surpassing 3 Idiots at that time. Apart from film directing, he has also hosts the stunt-based adventure show Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi since 2014.