Madhur Bhandarkar is a National Award-winning Indian director, producer, and script writer who has directed critically-lauded films such as Chandni Bar (2001), Fashion (2008), Calendar Girls (2015), Traffic Signal (2007), Indu Sarkar (2017), Corporate (2006), Page 3 (2005), etc.
Born Name
Madhur Bhandarkar
Nick Name
Madhur
Madhur Bhandarkar as seen in 2014 (Bollywood Hungama / Wikimedia / CC BY 3.0)
Sun Sign
Virgo
Born Place
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality
Occupation
Director, Producer, Script Writer
Build
Slim
Height
5 ft 9½ in or 176.5 cm
Weight
70 kg or 154.5 lbs
Girlfriend / Spouse
Madhur has dated –
Raveena Tandon (2003) – He was RUMORed to be dating actress Raveena Tandon during the shooting of Satta, in which she played the lead role.
Renu Namboodiri (2003-Present) – The acclaimed filmmaker is happily married to Renu Namboodiri since December 15, 2003. The couple is parents to a daughter named Siddhi Bhandarkar.
Madhur worked as an associate director to Ram Gopal Varma during the making of Rangeela (1995).
His wife’s favorite film of his is the 2011 comedy, Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji.
Madhur is a school drop-out.
He trained himself in filmmaking while working in a video cassette library.
In 2010, his acclaimed films Chandni Bar (2001), Corporate (2006), Traffic Signal (2007), Jail (2009), Fashion (2008), and Page 3 (2005) were chosen to be preserved by the National Film Archive of India.
In 2004, Madhur was accused of ra*e under the pretext of work and, later, marriage by aspiring model, Preeti Jain. According to her formal complaint, she was ra*ed 16 times between 1999 and 2004. The court case dragged on for nearly a decade and was finally quashed by the Supreme Court in November 2012.
In 2005, his accuser Preeti had hired a contract killer to murder the famed director for a sum of Rs 75,000. She was later found guilty and was handed a 3-year-prison sentence in 2017.
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