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Anant Balani is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 1962

Anant Balani

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Nationality Inde
Birth 1962
Death 29 august 2003 (at 41 years) at Mumbai (Inde)

Anant Balani (1962 – 29 August 2003) was a Bollywood film director and screenwriter.

He directed films such as Patthar Ke Phool in 1991 which starred Salman Khan and Raveena Tandon in lead roles. He also wrote the script for Insaaf: The Justice, released in 2004.

He died of a heart attack on 29 August 2003 in Mumbai. 2003 had been a strenuous year for him and he had finished three films and was working on a fourth at his time of death. He didn't live to see any of his films of that year released which included Joggers' Park, Mumbai Matinee and Ek Din 24 Ghante.

Usually with

Rahul Bose
Rahul Bose
(3 films)
Kabir Sadanand
Kabir Sadanand
(3 films)
Vikram Gokhale
Vikram Gokhale
(2 films)
Vivek Vaswani
Vivek Vaswani
(3 films)
Uttam Singh
Uttam Singh
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Anant Balani (9 films)

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Director

Joggers Park
Joggers Park (2003)
, 2h13
Directed by Anant Balani
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Victor Banerjee, Perizaad Zorabian, Divya Dutta, Hiten Tejwani, Manoj Joshi, Anant Mahadevan
Rating61% 3.097883.097883.097883.097883.09788
The film opens at a Rotary Club function to honour the recently retired Justice Jyotin Chatterjee. The judge has served the profession all his life with honour and spotless integrity. As he is about to retire, he recognises there will now be a void in his life. His wife remarks to reporters that neither he nor she knows what he would do after he retires.
Mumbai Matinee
Mumbai Matinee (2003)
, 2h5
Directed by Anant Balani
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Rahul Bose, Perizaad Zorabian, Vijay Raaz, Saurabh Shukla, Anusha Dandekar, Kabir Sadanand
Rating51% 2.567722.567722.567722.567722.56772
Debu (Rahul Bose) is a 32-year-old advertising agent, but has a serious problem in that he is still a virgin. He meets Baba Hindustani (Vijay Raaz) in a hotel who promises to cure him of the teasing he gets from being a virgin. He later meets Nitin Kapoor, a film-maker (Saurabh Shukla) who later films him as he works out in the gym and other physical activities. Unaware of what is happening, Kapoor edits the film in such a way to give the impression of Debu as having sex. The film is released and becomes a box office hit and Debu quickly becomes a sex symbol. He later meets Sonali Verma (Perizaad Zorabian), a journalist, who helps him through his difficulties and they later fall in love.
Chameli
Chameli (2003)
, 1h48
Directed by Anant Balani, Sudhir Mishra
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Kareena Kapoor, Rahul Bose, Rinke Khanna, Yashpal Sharma, Mahek Chahal, Kabir Sadanand
Rating67% 3.3949653.3949653.3949653.3949653.394965
Chameli is the story of a prostitute played by Kareena Kapoor. Aman Kapoor (Rahul Bose) an investment banker, lost his pregnant wife, Neha (Rinke Khanna) in a car accident on a rainy night. The accident left him depressed and lonely. He drowned his grief with alcohol and smoking. Chameli (Kareena Kapoor) is a prostitute who was sold to a brothel by her uncle when she was young. She is now a tough, street-smart woman.
Ek Din 24 Ghante
Ek Din 24 Ghante (2003)
, 1h35
Directed by Anant Balani
Genres Thriller
Actors Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Vineet Kumar, Kabir Sadanand, Piyush Mishra
Rating42% 2.106032.106032.106032.106032.10603
The film revolves around a father-girl-guy relationship. Sameera Dutta (Nandita Das) is the wild daughter who comes into conflict with her father when she meets Viren (Rahul Bose). Sameera believes she has found true love, but it happens that Viren has a serious gambling problem and owes Rs. 2 million to a casino owner, Patel (Vineet Kumar). Viren seeks Sameera's help and in desperation and out of resentment for her father she threatens to reveal to her mother that he has a mistress who is pregnant with his child. When her father fails to give her the money, she places a revolver to his head. Her father not only informs the police, but he also hires a hitman to kill his daughter. Meanwhile, a strike cripples the city so Sameera must make her way on foot to the drop-off location to pay off Patel and save Viren's life. After narrowly escaping both the police and her father's hired hitman, Sameera reaches the drop-off.
Patthar Ke Phool
Patthar Ke Phool (1991)
, 2h35
Directed by Anant Balani
Genres Action, Romance
Actors Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Kiran Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Reema Lagoo, Vivek Vaswani
Rating55% 2.7528252.7528252.7528252.7528252.752825
Kiran is the only child of a gangster father. She was brought up in such a way that she does not know of her father's unlawful habits. Kiran runs into one of the Police Inspector's son Suraj, they both fall in love. When Kiran's father finds out that his child is in love with an honest police officer's son, who has been assigned to find him, he is shocked, but decides to give up all his unlawful activities for his daughter's future. However, his own goons not liking this, kill the honest police officer and frame Kiran's father. Now Suraj joins the police department and gets things done in his manner.

Scriptwriter

Mumbai Matinee
Mumbai Matinee (2003)
, 2h5
Directed by Anant Balani
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Rahul Bose, Perizaad Zorabian, Vijay Raaz, Saurabh Shukla, Anusha Dandekar, Kabir Sadanand
Roles Writer
Rating51% 2.567722.567722.567722.567722.56772
Debu (Rahul Bose) is a 32-year-old advertising agent, but has a serious problem in that he is still a virgin. He meets Baba Hindustani (Vijay Raaz) in a hotel who promises to cure him of the teasing he gets from being a virgin. He later meets Nitin Kapoor, a film-maker (Saurabh Shukla) who later films him as he works out in the gym and other physical activities. Unaware of what is happening, Kapoor edits the film in such a way to give the impression of Debu as having sex. The film is released and becomes a box office hit and Debu quickly becomes a sex symbol. He later meets Sonali Verma (Perizaad Zorabian), a journalist, who helps him through his difficulties and they later fall in love.
Chameli
Chameli (2003)
, 1h48
Directed by Anant Balani, Sudhir Mishra
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Kareena Kapoor, Rahul Bose, Rinke Khanna, Yashpal Sharma, Mahek Chahal, Kabir Sadanand
Roles Original Story
Rating67% 3.3949653.3949653.3949653.3949653.394965
Chameli is the story of a prostitute played by Kareena Kapoor. Aman Kapoor (Rahul Bose) an investment banker, lost his pregnant wife, Neha (Rinke Khanna) in a car accident on a rainy night. The accident left him depressed and lonely. He drowned his grief with alcohol and smoking. Chameli (Kareena Kapoor) is a prostitute who was sold to a brothel by her uncle when she was young. She is now a tough, street-smart woman.
Ek Din 24 Ghante
Ek Din 24 Ghante (2003)
, 1h35
Directed by Anant Balani
Genres Thriller
Actors Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Vineet Kumar, Kabir Sadanand, Piyush Mishra
Rating42% 2.106032.106032.106032.106032.10603
The film revolves around a father-girl-guy relationship. Sameera Dutta (Nandita Das) is the wild daughter who comes into conflict with her father when she meets Viren (Rahul Bose). Sameera believes she has found true love, but it happens that Viren has a serious gambling problem and owes Rs. 2 million to a casino owner, Patel (Vineet Kumar). Viren seeks Sameera's help and in desperation and out of resentment for her father she threatens to reveal to her mother that he has a mistress who is pregnant with his child. When her father fails to give her the money, she places a revolver to his head. Her father not only informs the police, but he also hires a hitman to kill his daughter. Meanwhile, a strike cripples the city so Sameera must make her way on foot to the drop-off location to pay off Patel and save Viren's life. After narrowly escaping both the police and her father's hired hitman, Sameera reaches the drop-off.

Producer