Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra( born 5 September 1952) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer.
His better known films include" ParindaMunna Bhai" film series(" Munna Bhai M.B.B.S." and" Lage Raho Munna Bhai3 IdiotsPKSanju" and" Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga".
He is the founder of Vinod Chopra Films and Vinod Chopra Productions.
Rajkumar Hirani
Rajkumar Hirani( born 20 November 1962) is an Indian film director and editor.
Hirani is known for directing the Hindi films" Munna Bhai M.B.B.S"( 2003)," Lage Raho Munnabhai"( 2006)," 3 Idiots"( 2009)," PK"( 2014) and" Sanju"( 2018).
All of his films have been commercial and critical successes.
Most have won several awards, including the national awards, and have often been regarded by the media and audiences as some of the most path- breaking films in the history of Hindi cinema.
He has won 11 Filmfare Awards.
He is the founder of production house Rajkumar Hirani Films and suraj production house
Boman Irani
Boman Irani( born 2 December 1959) is an Indian theatre and film actor, voice artist and photographer of Irani descent, who works in Bollywood films.
After making his film debut with the 2003 anthology horror film" Darna Mana Hai", Irani had his first commercial success with the 2003 comedy" Munna Bhai M.B.B.S".
He subsequently starred in several highly successful productions including" Main Hoon Na"( 2004)," Veer- Zaara"( 2004)," No Entry"( 2005)," Don"( 2006)," Heyy Babyy"( 2007)," Dostana"( 2008)," Housefull"( 2010)," Cocktail"( 2012)," Jolly LLB"( 2013)," Bhoothnath Returns"( 2014)," Housefull 3"( 2016) and( 2018).
Irani's highest- grossing releases came with several films that rank among the highest- grossing Indian films of all time, including" Lage Raho Munna Bhai"( 2006)," 3 Idiots"( 2009)," Don 2"( 2011)," Housefull 2"( 2012)," Happy New Year"( 2014)," PK"( 2014)," Dilwale"( 2015)," Sanju"( 2018) and" Total Dhamaal"( 2019).
His performance in" 3 Idiots" won him the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Thornton Freeland
Thornton Freeland( February 10, 1898 – May 22, 1987) was an American film director who directed 26 British and American films in a career that lasted from 1924 to 1949.
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani (in his directorial debut) and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
Many elements of the film had been taken from American film Patch Adams
(film).The story involves protagonist Munna Bhai (Sanjay Dutt), a goon, going to medical school.
He is helped by his sidekick, Circuit (Arshad Warsi).
It stars Sanjay Dutt, Arshad Warsi, Jimmy Sheirgill, Gracy Singh, Boman Irani and Sunil Dutt and was later followed by a second film "Lage Raho Munna Bhai", and became the first instalment of the "Munna Bhai film series".
Sanjay Dutt said on 17 September 2019 that production on the third Munna Bhai film starring Dutt in the title role will begin in towards the end of 2020.
It went on to win the 2004 National Film Award for Best Popular Film, and several Filmfare awards, including the Critics Award for Best Movie and Best Screenplay.
At the box office, it achieved a silver jubilee status (25-week run) being one of only eight films to have achieved this status since the year 2000.
In its 26th week of release, the film could still be found playing on 257 screens throughout India.
Abhijat Joshi
Abhijat Joshi( born 1969) is an Indian academic and screenwriter particularly known for his work with Vinod Chopra Productions, as the screenwriter for" Lage Raho Munna Bhai"( 2006)," 3 Idiots"( 2009)," PK"( 2014) and" Sanju"( 2018).
He is a professor of English at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, since 2003.
Lage Raho Munna Bhai
Lage Raho Munna Bhai  is a 2006 Indian comedy-drama film directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.
It is the follow-up to the 2003 film "Munna Bhai M.B.B.S." with Sanjay Dutt reprising his role as Munna Bhai, a Mumbai underworld don.
In "Lage Raho Munna Bhai", the eponymous lead character starts to see the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi.
Through his interactions with Gandhi, he begins to practice what he refers to as "Gandhigiri" (a neologism for Gandhism) to help ordinary people solve their problems.
The film won widespread critical acclaim from critics and had a number of prominent screenings.
It was a box office success and received a "blockbuster" rating by the website "Box Office India" after grossing over worldwide, the equivalent to when adjusted for inflation, 2016 .
It was the recipient of a number of awards, including four National Film Awards. "
Lage Raho Munna Bhai" was the first Hindi film to be shown at the United Nations, and was screened at the "Tous Les Cinema du Monde" section of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.
The film popularised the term "Gandhigiri".
Vidhu Vinod Chopra submitted the film as an independent entry for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
It was later remade in Telugu as "Shankar Dada Zindabad" (2007).
Swanand Kirkire
Swanand Kirkire( Marathi: स्वानंद किरकिरे)( born 1972) is an Indian lyricist, playback singer, writer, assistant director, actor and dialogue writer, both in television with Marathi and Hindi films.
Kirkire won the National Film Award for Best Lyrics twice: first in 2006 for the song" Bande Me Tha Dum ...
Vande Mataram" from the film" Lage Raho Munna Bhai", and then in 2009, for the song" Behti Hawaa Sa Tha Woh ..." from the film" 3 Idiots".
He received Filmfare Award nomination for Best Lyrics for the song" Piyu Bole" in" Parineeta"( 2005).
In 2018, at the 66th National Film Awards he won the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for the Marathi film" Chumbak".
Dilip Prabhavalkar
Dilip Prabhavalkar( born 4 August 1944) is an Indian Marathi actor, director, playwright and author.
He has a career spanning over four decades in Hindi and Marathi theatre, television and movies.
He was awarded the National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Mahatma Gandhi in the 2006 Hindi film" Lage Raho Munna Bhai".
Skylarks
Skylarks is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox and Nancy Burne.
Nervo and Knox were a comic team, who became associated with the larger Crazy Gang grouping with whom they subsequently appeared in several films.
It is a partially lost film, with only a short soundless fragment surviving.
The team's earlier film" It's in the Bag", their 1936 sound debut, does still survive.

Question: Do both Skylarks and Lage Raho Munna Bhai films have the directors from the same country?
Answer: no