Nitesh Tiwari is an Indian screenwriter and director who works in the country’s leisure industry. In 2011, he made his debut in Indian cinema as a co-director of the Hindi film Chillar Get together. In the following year, he went on to win the National Film Award for Best Kids’ Movie for “Chillar Party.”
Personal Info
Nitesh Tiwari was born in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh, India on May 22, 1972. He will be 55 years old in 2020. Gemini is his sign of the Zodiac. He completed his collegiate studies at Bharat Mata Convent College in Behlot, Madhya Pradesh, and Mates English Medium College in Itarsi, Madhya Pradesh. Nitesh Tiwari graduated from IIT Bombay with a Bachelor of Science in Metallurgy and Materials Science Engineering in 1996.
Family
Dr. B. D. Tiwari is Nitesh Tiwari’s father. He has a sister and a brother named Luna Tiwari. Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari, a writer and filmmaker in the Indian entertainment industry, is the wife of Nitesh Tiwari. The pair is a parent to twins. Amaarisa Tiwari, the boy, and Aaradhya Tiwari, the daughter. Nitesh Tiwari started working as an imaginative director at Leo Burnett soon after finishing his faculty research.
Career
In 2014, Nitesh Tiwari made the transition from the business world to Indian cinema, where he directed the supernatural political drama film Bhoothnath Returns. He co-wrote and directed the Aamir Khan-starring film Dangal in 2016. In April 2017, shortly after Dangal’s release, it was shown at the Beijing International Film Festival. Dangal was made available for the BRICS competition in June 2017.
Dangal was regarded as the highest-grossing Indian film of the same year and the fifth-highest-grossing non-English film. Nitesh Tiwari was nominated for several accolades and received praise from reviewers for his 2019 comedy Chhichhore, which starred Sushant Singh Rajput and Shraddha Kapoor.
In 2018, Nitesh Tiwari and his spouse Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari co-founded a production house called “The Earthsky Footage,” under which they started directing and producing television commercials. A documentary about the lives of well-known tennis players Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes was later directed by Nitesh Tiwari.
Nitesh Tiwari and his wife announced plans to release the young adult comedy-drama “Bas Karo Aunty!” in May 2022. Ishwak Singh and Mahima Makwana may play the lead parts, it was further revealed. This film’s plot was largely inspired by Varun Agarwal’s best-selling book, “How I Braved Anu Aunty and Co-Founded a Million Dollar Firm.”
Awards
He was honoured with the Telstra Individuals’s Alternative Award for the movie Dangal at the Indian Movie Pageant of Melbourne in 2017 as well as the Best Director Award for the film Dangal at the 62nd Filmfare Awards in Melbourne in 2016.
