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Neeraj Pandey is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Indian born on 17 december 1973 at Kolkata (Inde)

Neeraj Pandey

Neeraj Pandey
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Nationality Inde
Birth 17 december 1973 (50 years) at Kolkata (Inde)
Creator of Friday Filmworks

Neeraj Pandey (born 1973) is an Indian film director best known for his drama-thriller film, A Wednesday (2008), for which he won the Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director. His work on the film was highly praised by audiences as well as critics. He was nominated for "Best Director" category by Filmfare Awards. His second movie Special 26 (2013) has also been equally appreciated by the public and the critics.

Usually with

Anupam Kher
Anupam Kher
(5 films)
Akshay Kumar
Akshay Kumar
(4 films)
Rajesh Sharma
Rajesh Sharma
(3 films)
Kamal Haasan
Kamal Haasan
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Neeraj Pandey (12 films)

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Director

M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films
Actors Sushant Singh Rajput, Disha Patani, Anupam Kher, Alia Bhatt, Shreyas Talpade, Kiara Advani
Rating79% 3.998763.998763.998763.998763.99876
Basé sur l'histoire de la vie de Mahendra Singh Dhoni et de son parcours pour devenir le capitaine de l'équipe indienne de cricket, vainqueur de la coupe du monde
Baby
Baby (2015)
, 2h39
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Akshay Kumar, Madhurima Tuli, Taapsee Pannu, Rana Daggubati, Danny Denzongpa, Kay Kay Menon
Rating78% 3.948213.948213.948213.948213.94821
The story follows a team of fictional secret agents called Baby; which is a temporary task force headed by Feroz Khan (Danny Denzongpa) formed in response to the 2008 Mumbai attacks whose job is to find and eliminate terrorists who are planning attacks in India.
Special 26
Special 26 (2013)
, 2h24
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Akshay Kumar, Kajal Agarwal, Jimmy Shergill, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Divya Dutta
Rating79% 3.998643.998643.998643.998643.99864
The story opens on 18 March 1987, where a walk-in CBI interview is taking place, held by the characters of Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher. The film then goes into flashback.
A Wednesday!, 1h43
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Anupam Kher, Naseeruddin Shah, Jimmy Shergill, Deepal Shaw, Aamir Bashir, Virendra Saxena
Rating80% 4.0478254.0478254.0478254.0478254.047825
A Wednesday! opens with Mumbai police commissioner Prakash Rathod (Anupam Kher) resting after a jog, describing in a voice-over that he is going to retire the following day. He goes on to describe the most challenging case he faced in his career.

Scriptwriter

M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films
Actors Sushant Singh Rajput, Disha Patani, Anupam Kher, Alia Bhatt, Shreyas Talpade, Kiara Advani
Roles Story
Rating79% 3.998763.998763.998763.998763.99876
Basé sur l'histoire de la vie de Mahendra Singh Dhoni et de son parcours pour devenir le capitaine de l'équipe indienne de cricket, vainqueur de la coupe du monde
Baby
Baby (2015)
, 2h39
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Akshay Kumar, Madhurima Tuli, Taapsee Pannu, Rana Daggubati, Danny Denzongpa, Kay Kay Menon
Roles Story
Rating78% 3.948213.948213.948213.948213.94821
The story follows a team of fictional secret agents called Baby; which is a temporary task force headed by Feroz Khan (Danny Denzongpa) formed in response to the 2008 Mumbai attacks whose job is to find and eliminate terrorists who are planning attacks in India.
Total Siyapaa, 1h48
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Yami Gautam, Ali Zafar, Anupam Kher, Kiron Kher, Sara Khan, Sara Khan
Roles Writer
Rating50% 2.5018652.5018652.5018652.5018652.501865
Settled in London, Aman, a Pakistani musician, hopes to marry Asha, an Indian woman also settled in London with her family. He visits her parents' house to seek their permission to marry her. However, his plans to impress the Punjabi family start failing when they discover that he is a Pakistani. During the course of events happens "total chaos" .
The Royal Bengal Tiger
Actors Jeet, Abir Chatterjee, Priyanka Sarkar, Shraddha Das, Kharaj Mukherjee, Rajesh Sharma
Rating67% 3.395673.395673.395673.395673.39567
Abhi (Abir Chatterjee) is a typical meek & docile Bengali familyman and doesn't know how to protest. He lives in Kolkata with his wife Apu (Priyanka Sarkar) and his son. He has a tenant who doesn't pay his monthly rents past six months and everytime he is refused whenever he asks for the payment of dues.He simply walks away doing nothing, In his office Abhi is a hardworker but his own colleague Deepankar (Shantilal Mukherjee) is jealous of him and plans his downfall in every other way more when Abhi gets recommended for promotion,but his other colleague Nandini (Shraddha Das) is a very good friend and sympathiser of Abhi. Things goes past good one day during Abhi's birthday morning when he asks his tenant Mr. Pakrashi (Kharaj Mukherjee) to pay his dues, he gets slapped in the middle of the road by him. Shattered Abhi goes to his office only to learn that all his files have been messed up by someone and one important file of payment is missing.He sits whole night and works on them only to be tampered by Deepankar again. That night when Abhi was returning with Nandini she gets molested by some goons in metro station, she cries to Abhi for help but Abhi cannot protest.Nandini boards the metro crying leaving Abhi at the metro station. Depressed and dejected Abhi meets his friend Anjan (Jeet)) at metro entrance and narrates whole story and about his helplessness of not protesting to any one. Anjan assures him takes him to a coffee house and encourage him motivationally causing him to shrug his fear. They both raid his office for the missing file and when nothing is found they rampage the office and run away. While returning home he find out that his tenant Mr. Pakrashi is boozing with other friends, angrily he enters the house and beats Pakrashi to blue and black and forces him to pay all the dues. Parkrashi is stunned to see the change of character in Abhi. Next day when Nandini rejects Abhi's proposal for boarding a metro and taunts him, Abhi tells Anjan and they both run towards the metro station and Abhi start beating the molestors badly.Abhi drops his office bag accidentally in the road.Next day he meets Anjan once again and Anjan gives him his contact number.Once in office Abhi is shocked when he learns that Deepankar/Dipu has been promoted, unable to bear that Abhi suspect that he has been tricked and hunts him down that night and beats him so Dipu confesses it was he who stole the payment file and hid it in his home Anjan asks Abhi that since Dipu has disappeared his file he should in turn make Dipu disappear from this world. Abhi ties Dipu and throws him in main highway only to be get crushed under heavy vehicle. Meanwhile Priyanka and her dad,a prominent psychologist, reaches police station where they recover the bag and tells them he is still missing, here Priyanka's father discloses that Abhi is a psychiatric patient suffering from a depression disease called Schizophrenia or split personality disorder. As the discussion was going on Police officer receives the news of Abhi sitting with the dead corpse of Dipu. The police brings him down where it is revealed that actually Anjan is an alter ego of Abhi only as a result of the mental disease whom he fictionalized as a human being and shrugged all his fears.
Special 26
Special 26 (2013)
, 2h24
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Akshay Kumar, Kajal Agarwal, Jimmy Shergill, Manoj Bajpayee, Anupam Kher, Divya Dutta
Roles Story
Rating79% 3.998643.998643.998643.998643.99864
The story opens on 18 March 1987, where a walk-in CBI interview is taking place, held by the characters of Akshay Kumar and Anupam Kher. The film then goes into flashback.
A Common Man, 1h34
Directed by Chandran Rutnam
Origin Sri Lanka
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films
Actors Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross
Roles Writer
Rating45% 2.271792.271792.271792.271792.27179
The film starts in a room full of bomb making material and newspaper articles about LTTE bombings in Sri Lanka, the screen then cuts to a typical busy morning in Colombo. "The Man" (Ben Kingsley) plants five bombs around the city; on a public bus, in a shopping mall and the Polgoda police station, on an intercity train, and at the Katukurunda Airfield. The man then establishes his mini control station on top a skyscraper in Dehiwala and calls the police chief Morris Da Silva (Ben Cross) and informs him that if four prisoners are not released, the bombs will be detonated.
Eenadu
Eenadu (2009)
, 1h46
Directed by Chakri Toleti
Actors Daggubati Venkatesh, Kamal Haasan, Lakshmi Narayan, Ganesh Venkatram, Anuja Iyer, Sriman

Eashwar Prasad (Daggubati Venkatesh) standing at the lakeshore, describes in a voice-over about his termination due to a common man walked into his life and turning everything topsy-turvy. This scene leads into the flashback. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) is shown strategically placing a travel bag within a train in a railway station, bus and in a multiplex at Hyderabad. He proceeds to place another bag, under the false pretense of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station located at Lakdi-ka-pool, Hyderabad. He then arrives on the rooftop of a building under construction near Raj Bhavan road and sets up his base of operations, equipped with various modern technology gadgets and instruments. He calls up Eashwar and informs him that 5 bombs have been placed in different locations throughout Hyderabad, which are programmed to explode simultaneously within four hours. The common man demands that he would like to negotiate with a senior Government official. Eashwar seeks the services of the Chief Secretary(Lakshmi) to act as the negotiator. Eashwar also alerts his team involved in intelligence research and surveillance, tapping all the available resources in gathering preliminary information and tracing the location of the caller. Meanwhile, the caller tips off TV9 news reporter Shilpa Rajkumar (Anuja Iyer), telling her to reach Lakdi-ka-pool police station immediately as it is going to be "the most important day of her life".
Unnaipol Oruvan, 1h46
Directed by Chakri Toleti
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Mohanlal, Kamal Haasan, Lakshmi Narayan, Ganesh Venkatram, Nassar, Anuja Iyer
Roles Original Story
Rating79% 3.9950553.9950553.9950553.9950553.995055
The recently dismissed police commissioner of Chennai, Inspector General Raghavan Maraar (Mohanlal), describes in a voice-over about his sudden termination due to a common man who walked into his life. An unnamed man (Kamal Haasan) is shown strategically placing a travel bag in a train in the Chennai Central railway station and in a shopping mall. He proceeds to place another bag, under the false pretense of lodging an FIR, in the toilet of a police station in Anna Salai, Chennai.
A Wednesday!, 1h43
Directed by Neeraj Pandey
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about terrorism
Actors Anupam Kher, Naseeruddin Shah, Jimmy Shergill, Deepal Shaw, Aamir Bashir, Virendra Saxena
Roles Dialogue
Rating80% 4.0478254.0478254.0478254.0478254.047825
A Wednesday! opens with Mumbai police commissioner Prakash Rathod (Anupam Kher) resting after a jog, describing in a voice-over that he is going to retire the following day. He goes on to describe the most challenging case he faced in his career.