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Rajat Rawail is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Assistant Director Indian
Rajat Rawail is an Indian film producer, director and actor working in the Hindi film industry. He is most known as the producer of hit films, Ready (2011) and Rowdy Rathore (2012).
Rawail was born and brought up in Mumbai. He is the nephew of film director, Rahul Rawail, who was also a director. He completed his schooling from Maneckji Cooper School, Juhu, Mumbai in 1987.
Rawail started his career as an assistant director to director Ramesh Sippy. Starting with Bhrashtachar (1989), Rawail worked with Sippy in Akayla (1991) followed by Zamaana Deewana (1995). Subsequently, he has worked as a producer and co-producer for Hindi films like Ready, No Problem, Shortkut - The Con is On, Run and Anjaam.
He made his acting debut in Salman Khan starrer, Bodyguard (2011) playing a fun loving character, Tsunami Singh.
As a producer he co-produced Salman Khan starrer Ready (2011), a remake of 2008 Telugu film by the same name and Rowdy Rathore (2012), which starred Akshay Kumar.
In 2013, he became a contestant in the reality TV Show Bigg Boss 7.
He is married to Bhavna Dhowan Rawail, and the couple has a daughter.
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Rajat Rawail
Rawail was born and brought up in Mumbai. He is the nephew of film director, Rahul Rawail, who was also a director. He completed his schooling from Maneckji Cooper School, Juhu, Mumbai in 1987.
Rawail started his career as an assistant director to director Ramesh Sippy. Starting with Bhrashtachar (1989), Rawail worked with Sippy in Akayla (1991) followed by Zamaana Deewana (1995). Subsequently, he has worked as a producer and co-producer for Hindi films like Ready, No Problem, Shortkut - The Con is On, Run and Anjaam.
He made his acting debut in Salman Khan starrer, Bodyguard (2011) playing a fun loving character, Tsunami Singh.
As a producer he co-produced Salman Khan starrer Ready (2011), a remake of 2008 Telugu film by the same name and Rowdy Rathore (2012), which starred Akshay Kumar.
In 2013, he became a contestant in the reality TV Show Bigg Boss 7.
He is married to Bhavna Dhowan Rawail, and the couple has a daughter.
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Filmography of Rajat Rawail (16 films)
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Policegiri (2013)
Directed by K.S.Ravikumar
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Sanjay Dutt, Prakash Raj, Prachi Desai, Om Puri, Rajpal Yadav, Rajpal Yadav
Roles Toto
Rating42%
The movie begins with a man (Sanjay Dutt) drinking beer early in the morning and then following up with having beer and idli. He later steals a bike and goes to the police station to get commission from the police inspector. He then meets a man who takes him to a place where they sell guns and bombs. Finally, he meets a local gangster who hires him to kill a minister. He thens kills the gangster and his henchmen and reveals himself as DCP Rudra, the new cop in town, near the Andhra Pradesh-Maharashtra border.
Gali Gali Chor Hai (2012)
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Akshaye Khanna, Shriya Saran, Mugdha Godse, Annu Kapoor, Satish Kaushik, Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed Jaffery
Roles Bachu Gulkand
Rating52%
Part-time 'Hanuman' at the local 'Ramleela', but full-time cashier at the bank – that's Bharat, an 'Aam Aadmi'. He resides in the heart of Bhopal, with Nisha, a school teacher and his loving and caring, but doubting wife, who is concerned more about her husband's promotion from cashier to manager rather than his flying tricks onstage. Bharat's father, Shivnarayan, an old-timer who values freedom and hopes to see his country corruption-free someday, completes the small and happy family. However, there's also an uninvited houseguest in Bharat's household; Amita, a young, beautiful girl who works at a call center and often likes to hitch a ride with Bharat on his scooter, when he is not busy dropping his wife to her school.
Second Marriage Dot Com (2012)
Actors Mohit Chauhan, Surbhi Jyoti, Satish Kaushik, Akhilendra Mishra, Vijay Raaz, Murali Sharma
Rating73%
The film kicks off when Akshay, young IT professional from Delhi; only child of a single parent Suneel Narang embarks on a journey to get his father, a widower; married so to finally put an end to his prolonged loneliness. Coincidentally in Jaipur, a vibrant young girl Poonam is on the same hunt to find a partner for her mother, Shoma; whom she's seen as a divorcee since childhood. They get in touch with each other through a matrimonial website named 'secondmarriage.com' and after initial denial of the idea by their parents they finally sail through and get they married.
Bodyguard (2011)
, 2h11Directed by Siddique
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Raj Babbar, Hazel Keech, Mahesh Manjrekar, Asrani
Roles Tsunami Singh
Rating47%
Lovely Singh (Salman Khan) is assigned as Divya's (Kareena Kapoor) bodyguard to protect her from goons hunting her to take revenge against her father, a kind and successful politician. Lovely is very devoted to his duties—but irritates Divya by following her everywhere. Divya and her friend Maya (Hazel Keech) call Lovely; with Divya pretending to be a girl, Chhaya madly in love with Lovely, hoping this will distract him from his work.
Actors Ameesha Patel, Lillete Dubey, Zayed Khan, Randhir Kapoor, Ravi Kishan, Sahil Shroff
Roles Kimteef
Director
Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya (2001)
Directed by Rajat Rawail
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Vinay Anand, Pooja Batra, Tabu, Govinda, Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Dinesh Hingoo
Rating36%
Directed by Rajat Rawail
Actors Sanjay Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Satyajeet Puri, Kader Khan, Om Puri, Shakti Kapoor
Rating42%
Kishan is a career thief, and is on the run from the police in Bombay. He decides to re-locate to another place where he is not known to the police. He decides to make Jamalpur in Uttar Pradesh his new home. Here's where he meets and falls in love with Roma Khurana, the sister of a corrupt Superintendent of Police. This is also where he witnesses a murder committed in broad daylight by the region's Raja Gajraj Singh, and now Kishan must decide to be a witness against Gajraj through his "ZAMEER", or continue to exist in his present career.
Scriptwriter
Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya (2001)
Directed by Rajat Rawail
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Vinay Anand, Pooja Batra, Tabu, Govinda, Sadashiv Amarapurkar, Dinesh Hingoo
Rating36%
Producer
Rowdy Rathore (2012)
, 2h23Directed by Prabhu Deva
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about families
Actors Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Paresh Ganatra, Prabhu Deva, Nassar, Yashpal Sharma
Roles Producer
Rating58%
Shiva (Akshay Kumar) is a small-time thief in Mumbai who falls in love with Paro (Sonakshi Sinha). He tells her the truth about being a thief and resolves to give up crime because he loves Paro dearly. Before that, he decides to commit a large robbery along with his con-friend 2G (Paresh Ganatra), which would enable him to earn a lot of money; hence he can give up crime. He "tricks" a woman on a railway station (Gurdeep Kohli) and flees with a trunk. This leads Shiva to Chinki, a little girl who was in the trunk instead of the wealth he thought was there. Chinki thinks that he is her father. Puzzled, he is forced to keep Chinki with him, as a police officer (Yashpal Sharma) keeps his eye on him.
Ready (2011)
, 2h25Directed by Anees Bazmee
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Salman Khan, Asin Thottumkal, Paresh Rawal, Mahesh Manjrekar, Anuradha Patel, Manoj Joshi
Roles Producer
Rating49%
Ready starts with ready-witted Prem (Salman Khan) helping his childhood friend Khushi (Zarine Khan) to elope with Raju (Ajay Devgn). Khushi's intended bridegroom Gaurav (Arbaaz Khan) reveals that he also has a girlfriend, Kiran (Kangna Ranaut), whom he wants to marry. The elopement angers Khushi's father, Mr. Pathak (Mithilesh Chaturvedi) and Prem's family, the Kapoors. Prem manages to pacify his family members.
No Problem (2010)
, 2h20Directed by Anees Bazmee
Genres Comedy
Actors Anil Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, Sushmita Sen, Suniel Shetty, Kangana Ranaut
Roles Producer
Rating45%
Yash (Sanjay Dutt) and Raj (Akshaye Khanna) are small-time crooks and childhood buddies. Raj wants to lead an honest life, but Yash always manages to do something that jeopardises Raj's chances of turning over a new leaf. When Yash robs the First Village Bank, the innocent bank manager, Zandulal (Paresh Rawal), gets blamed, because he had sheltered Yash and Raj under his roof. Zandulal finds out that the two crooks fled to Durban and begs the bank chairman for time to look for the two and prove his innocence.
Shortkut (2009)
, 2h36Directed by Neeraj Vora
Genres Comedy
Actors Akshaye Khanna, Amrita Rao, Arshad Warsi, Chunky Pandey, Simi Garewal, Ali Asgar
Roles Producer
Rating35%
The story focuses on Shekhar (Akshaye Khanna), who is currently an assistant director, hoping to write and direct his own movie soon. His friend Raju (Arshad Warsi) is a struggling actor who has been waiting for Shekhar to write a film script so he can star in. However, when Shekhar rejects him as the film's hero, Raju decides to steal Shekhar's film script and release the film under his own name. The film is released and turns out to be an blockbuster, leading Raju to stardom. Heartbroken Shekhar, at this time, is left by his girlfriend Mansi (Amrita Rao). Lack of confidence, Shekhar writes an new and better film script and wants to star Raju in it, however when Raju rejects the script, Shekhar decides to film the movie without Raju knowing he is in it. Shekhar and his low-budget film crew follow Raju around everywhere to complete their movie. Eventually, when the movie is finished, it turns out that Raju's role in the film was embarrassing and humiliating, and turns Raju into a box office bomb. Shekhar's film succeeds and he is offered more movies. Raju turns into a flop, and decides to steal someone else's script.
Run (2004)
, 2h17Directed by Jeeva, Philippe Lacôte
Origin Inde
Genres Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Bollywood
Actors Abhishek Bachchan, Bhumika Chawla, Mukesh Rishi, Vijay Raaz, Ayesha Jhulka, Mahesh Manjrekar
Roles Producer
Rating50%
Anjaam (1994)
, 2h50Directed by Rahul Rawail
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Johnny Lever, Himani Shivpuri, Deepak Tijori, Tinnu Anand
Roles Executive Producer
Rating65%
Vijay Agnihotri (Shah Rukh Khan) comes from a wealthy family and is very spoiled as well as psychopathic. He meets Shivani (Madhuri Dixit) in a disco club. He tries to get friendly but without any success. Later he meets Shivani in an airplane who is a flight attendant with whom he instantly falls in love but she shows no interest in him – this does not stop Vijay and he continues to pursue her, only to be rejected every time. Vijay informs his mother that he intends to marry Shivani. When they approach Shivani’s family with a proposal, they witness that Shivani had married another man named Ashok. Vijay is now heartbroken. Shivani and Ashok decide to move to America.
Director
Zamaana Deewana (1995)
, 3hDirected by Ramesh Sippy
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Raveena Tandon, Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha, Anupam Kher, Prem Chopra
Roles Assistant Director
Rating47%
Suraj (Shatrughan Sinha) and Lala (Jeetendra) were good friends before falling prey to the vicious tricks of Sundar (Tinnu Anand), so much so that Lala believes his wife is dead and Suraj is to blame for that.