Karan Malhotra
Karan Malhotra is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his debut film "Agneepath". It was one of the highest grossing Bollywood movie of the year. Before marking his directorial debut in 2012 with Dharma Productions, he worked for ten years as an assistant director in the Hindi film industry. Career. Malhotra worked as an assistant director in the films such as "Jodhaa Akbar", "My Name Is Khan" and "Jaan-E-Mann" before co-writing and directing "Agneepath", a remake of the 1990 cult classic of the same name. Karan Malhotra has also directed  the film "Brothers" in 2015, an official remake of the 2011 American film "Warrior" starring Akshay Kumar, Sidharth Malhotra, Jacqueline Fernandez and Jackie Shroff. Malhotra and his wife Ekta Pathak Malhotra began collaborating on the screenplay for "Shuddhi" which is slated for a Diwali 2016 release for Dharma Productions. Whilst working on the script both made several research-based trips to Hrishikesh, one of the prominent shooting locations for the film. In March 2013, producer Karan Johar officially announced that Dharma Productions had begun pre-production on a new film venture titled "Shuddhi". Though initially rumoured that Malhotra's "Shuddhi  would be the film adaptation of Amish Tripathi's The Immortals of Meluha", it was later proven false. In September 2013, Karan Johar announced that Malhotra would be directing "The Immortals of Meluha", but only after the theatrical release of Shuddhi. However, in May 2017, Amish Tripathi revealed that Dharma Productions had dropped the film rights to his books due to the contract expiring, with filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali now holding them. In May 2018, Yash Raj Films announced that Malhotra would next be directing the period action-adventure film "Shamshera", set to release in 2020.