Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri was born on 10 November 1973 and is an Indian film director, film producer, screenwriter and author who works in Hindi cinema.
25 Facts About Vivek Agnihotri
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Vivek Agnihotri wrote and directed The Kashmir Files which emerged as one of the highest-grossing Indian film of 2022.
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Vivek Agnihotri was born in Gwalior Madhya Pradesh He studied at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication before enrolling at Harvard Extension School for a Certificate of Special Studies in Administration and Management.
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Vivek Agnihotri started his career with the advertising agencies Ogilvy and McCann, and served as creative director for campaigns of Gillette and Coca-Cola.
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In 2018, Vivek Agnihotri claimed that had received threats for using the name Mohammad in his short film Mohammad and Urvashi.
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Vivek Agnihotri debuted in Bollywood with Chocolate, a remake of the 1995 Hollywood neo-noir crime thriller The Usual Suspects.
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Vivek Agnihotri allegedly asked her to strip and dance to give expression cues to her male co-star Irrfan Khan during a close-up shot and retreated only after Irrfan and Suniel Shetty rebuffed him.
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Vivek Agnihotri denied the allegations as "false and frivolous", and filed a defamation case against Dutta.
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However, Vivek Agnihotri has since claimed that credit for direction and screenplay was wrongly attributed to him, and that he was not involved with the film.
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In March 2022, Vivek Agnihotri released The Kashmir Files on the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus; the film has become a blockbuster hit.
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In 2017, Vivek Agnihotri was selected as convenor by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in the preview committee of 48th International Film Festival of India.
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On 15 September 2020, Vivek Agnihotri was appointed as cultural representative at Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
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In 2018, Vivek Agnihotri wrote Urban Naxals: The Making of Buddha in a Traffic Jam, in which he described individuals in academia and media who were allegedly colluding with Naxalites in a bid to overthrow the Indian government and were thus "invisible enemies of India" as "Urban Naxals".
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In 2022, Vivek Agnihotri has received the National Kishore Kumar Samman.
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Vivek Agnihotri married Indian actress Pallavi Joshi in 1997 and has two children.
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Vivek Agnihotri has described himself as a supporter of Narendra Modi, but not of the Bharatiya Janata Party that Modi belongs to.
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In 2022, Vivek Agnihotri announced that he was starting knee surgery after suffering a cartilage tear the previous year, which resulted in him suffering a stress fracture.
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Vivek Agnihotri had ignored the cartilage tear for one and half years while producing The Kashmir Files.
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In 2022, Vivek Agnihotri delivered a speech in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Fact checkers have noted Vivek Agnihotri to have shared misleading content from his Twitter account.
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In September 2018, Vivek Agnihotri tweeted a listicle claiming that a survey from the BBC found that the Indian National Congress was the second most corrupt party in the world.
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In November 2018, Vivek Agnihotri tweeted a misleading video that appeared to show that Indian political activist Kanhaiya Kumar had converted to Islam.
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In January 2020, Vivek Agnihotri tweeted a doctored image of an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protester that he claimed was real.
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In February 2020, Vivek Agnihotri falsely claimed that cannabis kills COVID-19.
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Vivek Agnihotri defended his tweet and said he was making a point about the placarding by liberals at selective instances of alleged perpetrators belonging to the Hindu community.