Manu Rishi Chadha, one of the finest artists in our industry was born and raised in Delhi. His only dream was to become an actor and hence to hone his skills, he quit college to pursue theatre.He gave 10 years to theatre and eventually decided to move to Mumbai to give a bigger platform to his acting dreams. After a few attempts at acting which proved his mettle, but unfortunately did not give him many opportunities to put him in the big league of actors in the industry, he decided to quit acting and give his all to writing.He wrote Oye Lucky Lucky Oye which turned out to be a blockbuster. It not only won him recognition and acceptance in the industry as a fine actor but also won him his first Filmfare award, IIFA and numerous other prestigious awards.Juggling between acting and writing, he gave many successful films as a writer and some more as an actor like Phas Gaye Re Obama, Kya Dilli Kya Lahore, 21 Topon ki Salaami, Ek Deewana Tha, What The Fish, Life ki toh Lag Gayi, Aankhon Dekhi, Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, etc.Now he’s back as an actor. Watch out for him playing a primary character in a Web Series called Inside Edge for Amazon Prime directed By Karan Anshuman and produced by Excel Films.
Manu Rishi Chadha
Movies
Ek Chalis Ki Last Local
Employed in Kurla in a Multinational Call Center where he is instructed to speak with an accent, Nilesh Rastogi misses the last 1:40 AM Kalyan-bound local-train to return home to Vikhroli. Asked to leave the platform by a Hawaldar, he goes looking for an alternate place to hang out until…
Kya Dilli Kya Lahore
In 1948, a cross-fire erupts at an isolated stretch of Indo-Pak border, leaving only two soldiers alive. One is an Indian soldier of Pakistani origin while the other happens to be a Pakistani soldier of Indian origin. An ironic story of pride and survival begins when – in an attempt…
Saathiya
Running away from home can’t keep a couple together. A signed paper can’t keep a couple together. Love can. While for most Love Stories, marriage is the “goal”, the fact remains that marriage is just the beginning. Saathiya continues on, from where most love stories end. From the infatuation stage…
Ekkees Toppon Ki Salaami
Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi
Life Mein Hungama Hai
Angrezi Medium
Band Baaja Baaraat
Shruti (Anushka Sharma) is a 20-something no-nonsense girl from a middle class Delhi household. Focused and determined with preplanned ambitions, her goals in life are well laid out by the time she reaches her final year of college. Bittoo (Ranveer Singh), on the other hand, has no real aim in…
Tanu Weds Manu Returns
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
Inspired by the incredible true story of Lucky Singh, an extremely charismatic and fearless confidence man and thief who socialized with the rich, famous and influential of Delhi society and then proceeded to rob them blind. He was the bête noire of the police and had stolen millions by the…
Yeh Saali Zindagi
After Bade falls out of favor of Member of Parliament, Verma, he is arrested, held in a cell without any trial, and is humiliated and beaten everyday. His brother Chhotte and others conspire to secure his release by kidnapping Verma’s to-be son-in-law, Shyam Singhania. Things do not go exactly as…
Phas Gaye Re Obama
Phase Gaye Re Obama is a comedy set against the backdrop of global recession/meltdown that originated in USA. The film traces the journey of OM Shashtri, an American citizen of Indian origin, who loses all his wealth overnight to the global recession & has been asked to vacate his home…
Fun Facts
Partner of assistant director Roli Chaturvedi.