Director

Neeraj Ghaywan

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Directed movies: 10Directed series: 2All crew credits: 12

TMDB ID: 1455337

IMDb ID: nm4784536

Known for: Directing

Born: April 20, 1980

Age: 45

Place of birth: Hyderabad, India

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 2011 - 2025

Years active: 15

Average TMDB rating: 7.18

Wikidata: Q21063830

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Biography

Neeraj Ghaywan (born 20 April 1980) is an Indian film director and writer who works in Hindi films. He is the winner of several accolades including a National film Award and two Filmfare Awards. Ghaywan assisted filmmaker Anurag Kashyap on Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) and Ugly (2013) before he made his directorial debut in 2015 with Masaan which received wide acclaim and won two prizes at the Cannes Film festival including the FIPRESCI prize. His acclaimed 2017 short film Juice won him the Filmfare Award for Best Short Film-Fiction. Ghaywan then co-directed the second season of Netflix's series Sacred Games with Kashyap in 2019 and Geeli Pucchi from the anthology film Ajeeb Daastaans in 2021. Ghaywan was an episodic director on the second season of Made in Heaven.

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