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Shakun Batra is an Indian screenwriter, filmmaker, and producer. In 2022, he labored as a director, author, and producer within the Amazon Prime movie ‘Gehraiyaan’ starring Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, and Ananya Pandey.

Wiki/Biography

Shakun Batra was born on Saturday, 1 January 1983 (age 39 years; as of 2022) in New Delhi. His zodiac signal is Capricorn.

Shakun Batra’s childhood image

He did his education at St. Xavier’s Senior Secondary Faculty, Delhi. From 2001 to 2004, he attended St Stephen’s School, Delhi. He then did a course in cinematography at Vancouver Movie Faculty, Vancouver, ‎British Columbia‎, ‎Canada.

Bodily Look

Top (approx.): 5′ 4″

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Black

Household

Dad and mom & Siblings

His father runs a enterprise of mosquito repellent machines. His mom is a charitable physician. Shakun has a brother and a sister. His brother, Shubham Batra, works as an architect.

Spouse

He’s not married but.

Relationships/Affairs

In 2013, there have been rumours that Shakun was relationship the Indian director Sonam Nair.

Shakun Batra and Sonam Nair

Profession

He developed an curiosity in pictures in his teenagers, he then began working as a nature photographer. After finishing a course in cinematography, he began aiding a number of Indian administrators in Mumbai together with Errol Morris and Christopher Wilcha. He has labored with numerous manufacturing homes in India comparable to Equinox Movies, Excel Leisure Pvt. Ltd., and Dharma Productions. In 2012, he debuted as a director and author within the Hindi movie ‘Ek Essential Aur Ekk Tu’ during which the primary lead was Kareena Kapoor and Emran Khan. After nearly a niche of 4 years, he labored as director-writer within the Hindi movie ‘Kapoor & Sons’ (2016) which was one of many tremendous hit movies of the yr.

Shakun Batra with Rishi Kapoor on the units of Kapoor & Sons

In 2021, he labored as a writer-director-executive producer within the Hindi documentary ‘Looking for Sheela.’

Looking for Sheela documentary poster

Shakun’s directorial movie ‘Gehraiyaan’ was launched on Amazon Prime in 2022. He additionally labored as a author and producer within the movie. Aside from movies, has directed a number of TV commercials for Google, Head & Shoulder’s, and Nestle.

Awards

• 2016: Indian Movie Pageant of Melbourne- Folks’s Alternative Award for the Hindi movie Kapoor & Sons

• 2017: Filmfare Awards for Finest Story, Finest Screenplay for the Hindi movie Kapoor & Sons

• 2017: IIFA Awards for Finest Story for the Hindi movie Kapoor & Sons

• 2017: Stardust Awards for Finest Story for the Hindi movie Kapoor & Sons

• 2017: Zee Cine Awards for Finest Story for the Hindi movie Kapoor & Sons

Favourites

• Novel: Freedom by Jonathan Franzen

• Movie Director: Woody Allen

• Movie(s): ‘Monsoon Wedding ceremony’ (2001) and ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ (2001)

Information/Trivia

• After finishing his commencement, he wished to pursue a post-graduation diploma within the US, however his visa bought rejected. He then enrolled himself in a cinematography course in Canada. Initially, his mother and father have been reluctant of his thought of pursuing his profession in cinematography, however he then requested one yr time to do one thing within the subject of cinematography.

• Shakun Batra is well-versed in enjoying the guitar.
  

  Shakun Batra enjoying the guitar

• In an interview, he shared that his inspiration behind the story of the Hindi movie ‘Kapoor & Sons’ (2016) was his family. He stated.
  

  Households are like that. They’re chaotic and are all the time shifting. Even when the members are preventing, they’re shifting between rooms. I felt that we’d by no means seen this in Hindi cinema, and, for me, that turned the thrilling problem. I assumed it will be enjoyable if I might organise such scenes, and, in case you recall the one with the plumber, you’ll know precisely what I’m referring to. I’d seen my relations behave like that. For the primary eight years of my life, I lived in a joint household, so there was all the time chaos. The home felt full with capabilities, events and different grand occasions. I had seen such scenes in Monsoon Wedding ceremony — they have been so lovely and fluid that I wished to convey that factor in.”

  He additional shared that the late Indian actor Rishi Kapoor was not blissful whereas capturing for the movie Kapoor & Sons. In an interview, in 2016, Rishi Kapoor shared the explanation behind it, he stated,

  I didn’t have enjoyable working for Shakun Batra in Kapoor & Sons. You see I labored for 30-32 days on this movie. Not a single day handed when Shakun and I didn’t battle. It was not a inventive battle. It was one thing else. We fought as a result of I couldn’t agree along with his methodology of engaged on my function. Shakun wished to cowl each shot of mine from many various angles. However I’m old-school spontaneous actor. I couldn’t recreate the identical expression a number of instances over for each shot. I respect all colleges of performing. However I’m not a technique actor. With each successive shot I lose my spontaneity. This new type of working the place actors give the identical shot repeatedly from completely different angles has gained acceptance as a result of within the digital period no uncooked inventory is wasted. As a result of they’ve the ability of enhancing a movie on a digital platform they need extra software program. Thereby actors have become robots.”

• In 2022, whereas speaking concerning the intimacy scenes in his directorial movie ‘Gehraiyaan,’ he stated,
  

  I’ve been studying about intimacy within the west in publish MeToo world. I wished to encourage that system of safety and security. I wished actors to really feel mentally and emotionally in a extra secure atmosphere. We had intimacy workshops, which aren’t very completely different from theatre workshops. They’re trust-building workout routines to guarantee that everybody understands one another’s boundaries, consent. I’m glad that I did it.

  He added,

  This aspiration high quality to the city setting doesn’t really feel actual anymore to me. There was a time when New York and London felt just like the world we wished to know and know as a result of it felt so a lot better than ours. However immediately, with the publicity that we now have, we’re very conscious of what somebody’s life could possibly be like a minimum of at a floor degree.”