Amar Kaushik is a well known Indian director & actor. He was born on 4th August, 1983 in Arunachal Pradesh, India, who is mainly work in the Bollywood film industry. As a director and actor, Amar Kaushik is best known for Aaba (2017), Stree (2018), Bala (2019), Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga (2023), Sky Force (2024) and Amar Kaushik will be direct of the new upcoming Indian movie Stree 2 (2024). In 2008, Kaushik began his film career as Raj Kumar Gupta’s assistant director on Aamir. He teamed up with Gupta again to serve as associate director for No One Killed Jessica and Ghanchakkar. In addition to crew duties, Kaushik had small acting roles in each of the three films. After working as an associate director on the Onir films Sorry Bhai!, I Am and Shab, Kaushik ventured into solo directing with his short film “Aaaba”. The script was written by Kauhsik and based on a story by his mother. It was funded with loans from his friends, including Raj Kumar Gupta. Shot entirely in Ziro, Arunachal Pradesh, “Aaba” was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize for Best Short Film at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
Amar Kaushik belong to Hindu family. His father, Amar Kaushik, was a forest ranger with the Indian Forest Service, and his mother, Shashi, taught school in Medo, Arunachal Pradesh. Amar Kaushik got married to Nalini Neha in 2008. When he was 10 years old, the family moved to Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He later studied mass communications in Delhi and moved to Mumbai in 2006. In 2009, Kaushik was attacked on a bus by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena members who mistakenly believed he was director Anurag Kashyap. MNS leader Raj Thackeray had criticised Kashyap for calling his film Bombay Velvet and had unsuccessfully demanded that he change the name to Mumbai Velvet.
