Mukul S. Anand
Born(1951-10-11)11 October 1951
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Died7 September 1997(1997-09-07) (aged 45)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Occupationfilm director
SpouseAnita
ChildrenMikhail, Alishka
RelativesInder Raj Anand, Tinnu Anand

Mukul S. Anand (11 October 1951 – 7 September 1997) was an Indian film director and producer. He was the nephew of veteran film scriptwriter Inder Raj Anand and cousin of actor and director Tinnu Anand.[1][2]

Career

Mukul S. Anand made his debut as a director with the suspense thriller Kanoon Kya Karega (1984), which was inspired by the Hollywood film Cape Fear. His second film Aitbaar (1985) was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's classic Dial M for Murder. The film that first gained him recognition was the epic film Sultanat (1986), which brought together real-life father and son Dharmendra and Sunny Deol for the first time and introduced actress Juhi Chawla. That same year Anand also directed the thriller Main Balwan.

His first box-office success was Insaaf (1987), the film responsible for "re-introducing" Vinod Khanna to films after a hiatus. Anand's next film, Maha-Sangram (1990), reunited him with Vinod Khanna.

He finally hit the big league with the Scarface-inspired crime thriller Agneepath (1990) with Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role, which won Amitabh a National Award for Best Actor. He was reunited with Bachchan for the family drama Hum (1991), which was a box-office success and featured the popular song "Jumma Chumma". He worked with Bachchan for the final time in the epic film Khuda Gawah (1992) which won him the Filmfare Best Director Award. His last completed film, Trimurti (1995), which had a multi-star cast including Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor and Shahrukh Khan, failed to do well at the box office. The film he was working on at the time of his death in 1997 was Dus, which remained incomplete and unreleased, although the film's music did end up being released posthumously.

Personal life

Inder Raj Anand who was a film scriptwriter from the late 1940s through to the late 1980s was Mukul Anand's uncle. Mukul's cousin is actor and director Tinnu Anand. Mukul was married to Anita and had two children named Alishka and Mikhail. Daughter Aliksha Anand is married to producer, actor Romesh Sharma's son actor Karan Sharma who acted in the 2005 Bollywood film Dil Jo Bhi Kahey....

Death

Mukul died of a heart attack at the age of 45 on 7 September 1997. He was on location for action film Dus in Utah. The film began production in May 1997 and 40% of the shooting had been completed by August.[3]

Filmography

Year Film Director Producer Writer Notes
1983 Kanku Ni Kimat Yes No No Gujarati film
1984 Kanoon Kya Karega Yes No No
1985 Aitbaar Yes No No
1986 Main Balwan Yes No No
1986 Sultanat Yes No No
1987 Insaaf Yes No No
1990 Maha-Sangram Yes No No
1990 Agneepath Yes No No
1991 Hum Yes No No
1991 Khoon Ka Karz Yes No No
1992 Khuda Gawah Yes No Screenplay
1995 Trimurti Yes No No
1996 Army No Yes No
1997 Prithvi No Yes No
Unreleased Dus Yes No Yes [4]

References

  1. ↑ Roychoudhury, Amborish (25 March 2022). "Sands of Time - Part 24: Mukul Anand - The Merchant of Really Large Things". Outlook. Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  2. ↑ Lahiri, Monojit (7 September 2020). "Remembering Mukul Anand: Gone but not forgotten". National Herald. Archived from the original on 3 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
  3. ↑ Verma, Suparn (8 September 1997). "A tribute to director Mukul Anand". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 27 November 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  4. ↑ Gaekwad, Manish (18 July 2016). "Action films might have been different had the Sanjay Dutt-Salman Khan starrer 'Dus' been completed". Scroll.in. Archived from the original on 28 August 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2024.


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