Anjum Rajabali
Rajabali at Gujarat Literature Festival in Ahmedabad, December 2016.
Born (1958-08-07) 7 August 1958
Talaja, Gujarat, India
Alma materRashtriya Military School Belgaum University of Pune
Occupation(s)Screenwriter, actor
Years active1994–present

Anjum Rajabali is a veteran Indian screenwriter and teacher. He has written films like Drohkaal (1994), Ghulam (1998), The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) and Raajneeti (2010). He is also known for his leadership and lobbying for the rights of Indian screenwriters, as a senior activist of the Screenwriters Association, India.[1]

Career

He did his schooling from Rashtriya Military School Belgaum and began his career in the film industry as an associate scriptwriter for the critically acclaimed Drohkaal (1994). In 1998, Anjum wrote the screenplay for the film China Gate along with writing the story and screenplay for the hit crime-thriller Ghulam, starring Aamir Khan and Rani Mukherji. In the following years, Anjum is credited with writing for films across a variety of genres, including the action film Kachche Dhaage (1999), the drama Pukar (2000), the biographical film The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) and the horror Naina (2005). He was the script consultant on Prakash Jha's crime-drama Apaharan (2005) and Anjum's association with him extended for the next four successive films that Prakash Jha directed, with Anjum writing for Raajneeti (2010), Aarakshan (2011), Chakravyuh and his latest release Satyagraha (2013).[2]

He is the Head of Screenwriting at Whistling Woods as well as the Honorary Head of Screenplay Writing at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII),[3] a course that he founded in 2004. Apart from being a script consultant on several films, he also conducts workshops, seminars and conferences on screenwriting. In mid-2014, he joined with Mumbai Mantra as Convenor for their new initiative, the Mumbai Mantra CineRise Screenwriting Programme - 100 Storytellers A Year - a process of nurturing screenwriting talent, planned with 8 defined stages[4] of creative intervention, which invited applications from Indian screenwriters from any part of the world, including non-resident Indians and even those with mixed Indian parentage.[5]

Filmography

Writer

YearFilmNotes
2021 Toofan Story / Screenplay writer
2013SatyagrahaScreenplay writer
2012ChakravyuhScreenplay writer
2011AarakshanScreenplay writer
2010RaajneetiScreenplay writer
2005ApaharanScript consultant
2002The Legend of Bhagat SinghEnglish Dialogue / Screenplay writer
2000PukarDialogue / Screenplay writer
1999Kachche DhaageScreenplay / Story writer
1998Ghulam
1998China GateScreenplay writer
1994DrohkaalAssociate script writer

Script Consultant

YearFilmNotes
2022AnekScript Advisor
2020ThappadScript Advisor
2019Article 15Script Advisor
2018 MulkScript Advisor
2005ApharanScript Advisor
2003GangaajalScript Advisor

Actor

YearFilmRole
2018Veere Di WeddingKishan Puri
2014Time MachineChetan Kanodia (Older)
2011Turning 30David- Publisher
2008GhajiniDr. Debkumar Mitra
1996Kama Sutra: A Tale of LoveMadho singh

Producer

  • Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One (2010) (executive producer)

Thanks

  • Int. Cafe Night (2014) (Special thanks)
  • Hrid Majharey (2014) (Special thanks)
  • Rab da Vaasta... (2013) (Thanks)
  • Dum Maaro Dum (2011) (Acknowledgment)
  • Turning 30 (2011) (Acknowledgment)
  • Der Andher (2011) (Very special thanks)
  • Read My Silence (2011) (Special thanks)
  • Via Kargil (2011) (Special thanks)
  • Khakee (2004) (Acknowledgment - as Mr. Anjum Rajabali)
  • Sarfarosh (1999) (Grateful thanks - as Shri. Anjum Rajaballi)
  • Godmother (1999) (Acknowledgment)

Miscellaneous crew

  • Valmiki Ki Bandook (2010) (Script supervisor)
  • Mulk (Script supervisor)

References

  1. ↑ "Prakash Jha felt he was married to Anjum Rajabali". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 29 June 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Anjum Rajabali working on a biopic". 12 September 2014.
  3. ↑ "Faculty | Screenwriting". Whistling Woods. Archived from the original on 26 April 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
  4. ↑ http://www.mumbaimantra.com/about1.aspx
  5. ↑ "Satyagraha writer Anjum Rajabali teams with Mumbai Mantra's new initiative : Bollywood News - Bollywood Hungama". Bollywood Hungama. 16 August 2014. Archived from the original on 17 August 2014.
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