Vasan Bala
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| Born | 20 July 1978 (age 47) |
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Vasan Bala is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work in Hindi cinema. He wrote the scripts for the period crime drama Bombay Velvet (2015) and the psychological thriller Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Bala made his directorial debut with the crime thriller Peddlers in 2012, which earned him a nomination for the Golden Camera Award at Cannes. He's also worked as an assistant director on films like Dev.D (2009), Gulaal (2009), and Trishna (2011). As a dialogue writer, he's contributed to The Lunchbox (2013) and Rukh (2017). In 2019, he released the film Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota. His latest directorial was Dharma Productions' Jigra (2024), starring Alia Bhatt.
Bala hails from Mumbai, India. After spending several years working at a bank, he decided to leave his job and pursue a career as a director. He gained hands-on experience by learning directly from renowned filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Michael Winterbottom, before eventually directing his debut feature film, Peddlers (2012).[1]