Rohit Shetty
Rohit Shetty is an Indian director, screenwriter, stuntman, producer and television personality who works in Hindi cinema. A notable director of Hindi cinema, his film often mix the genres of action comedy and masala films. His breakthrough came with the first installment of the comedy film franchise Golmaal (2006), starring Ajay Devgn, Tusshar Kapoor and Arshad Warsi, which became a sleeper hit. Further subsequent successes in the franchise included Golmaal Returns (2008), Golmaal 3 (2010) and Golmaal Again (2017), each of which went on to rank among the highest-grossing films of the year. Shetty returned to the action genre with Singham (2011) after eight years of his debut action thriller Zameen (2003), which also starred Devgn in the lead; the film turned out to be one of the highest grossers of the year.
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