Ansh Rathore

Ansh Rathore is an Indian film Director and pioneer in the world of independent filmmaking in India. His film career began at the age of seventeen as a background artist in the movie Chak de India in 2007 which raised his passion towards films and leads him to learn filmmaking in New York Film Academy. After graduating in filmmaking he again started his new career as Assistant Director with the German movie "Das Madchen mit indischen smaragd" directed by Michael Karen under the banner of Teamworx Television and films. This Jaipur guy soon got the opportunity to work in "Shudh Desi Romance" under the banner of Yash Raj Films along side with Director Maneesh Sharma. It didn't took so long for him to reach India's renown Directors to work along and just after SDR he soon got enrolled on projects like "Highway" and "PK" and assisted Imtiaz Ali and Raj Kumar Hirani in 2014. In 2015 when the movie "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" by "Blueprint Pictures" was announced to be shot in India he didn't missed the chance and got to assist one of Hollywood biggest Director John Madden starring Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Penelope Wilton, Dev Patel, Tina Desai, Lillete Dubey, Maggie Smith, Celia Imrie, Rajesh Tailang, Ronald Pickup, David Strathairn, Tamsin Greig and Richard Gere followed by "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" Directed by Kabir Khan which was again one of the biggest hit in 2015 starring Salman Khan. In 2016 he been a part of direction team of "Airlift" based on Indian Historical drama which was lead by Director Raja Krishna Menon and Produced by Cape of Good Films starring Akshay Kumar followed by French series "Coup de foudre a Jaipur" directed by Arnauld Mercadier produced by Big Band Story starring French actors Rayane Bensetii and Lucie Lucas. Later in the year he joined the direction team of "Viceroy's House" which was led by UK based director Gurinder Chadha starring Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson. By the end of the year he had been a part of Chinese film "Kung fu yoga" which was directed by Stanley Tong starring the one and only Jackie Chan. Both movies got its worldwide release in the year 2017. He started 2017 with two back to back films "Badshaho" directed by Milan Luthria produced by T-Series starring Ajay Devgn, Ileana D'cruz, Emraan Hashmi, Esha Gupta, Vidyut Jamwal and Sanjai Mishra followed by a Periodic Comedy "Firangi" directed by Rajiev Dhingra, produced by K9 Films starring Kapil Sharma. In mid 2017 he was offered to assist one of the Hollywood top ranked franchise "Mission Impossible: Fallout" directed by Christopher McQuarrie, produced by Paramount Pictures starring Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill and Simon Pegg. 2017 ended with the beginning of controversial Indian epic biographical period drama "Manikarnika: The queen of Jhansi" directed by Krish Jagarlamundi which was later taken over by Kangana Ranaut and produced by Zee Studios. 2018 turn out to be his year of directorial debut with feature film "National Treasure: The blood run" produced by Voice Entertainment, USA starring Resh Marhatta, Jari Kinnunen, Ben Ayers and Khusbu Neupane followed by directing a short film "Wrong Turn" which was premiered and appreciated at American Film Festival, Deauville.