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name: "Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra"
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imdb_id: "nm1018493"
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roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "7 July 1963"
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average_as: "producer"
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updated: "2026-10-01T19:22:41.175939+00:00"
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# Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

## Identity

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rakeysh-omprakash-mehra
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rakeysh-omprakash-mehra
- **IMDb ID:** nm1018493
- **TMDB ID:** 53671
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3065916
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakeysh_Omprakash_Mehra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3065916, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1018493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53671

Producer and director. Born 7 July 1963 in New Delhi, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 7 July 1963, New Delhi, India
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakeysh_Omprakash_Mehra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3065916, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1018493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53671

## Biography

Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. Born on 7 July 1963 in Delhi, he studied at Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University. He began his career in advertising, establishing Flicks Motion Picture Company in 1986 after earlier work in sales, and directed numerous television commercials.

Mehra is best known for *Rang De Basanti* (2006), which he directed, co-wrote the screenplay for and co-produced. The film won him Best Director awards at the Filmfare Awards and National Film Awards, and received a BAFTA nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. His other films include *Aks* (2001), *Delhi-6* (2009) and *Bhaag Milkha Bhaag* (2013). He is married to film editor P. S. Bharathi.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Rang De Basanti* (2006), Fi1m 76, Screenplay, Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/rang-de-basanti.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Toofaan* (2021), Director, Producer
- *My Dear Prime Minister* (2019), Director, Producer, Screenplay
- *Fanney Khan* (2018), Producer
- *Mirzya* (2016), Director
- *Bhaag Milkha Bhaag* (2013), Director
- *Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever Told* (2011), Director
- *Teen Thay Bhai* (2011), Producer
- *Delhi-6* (2009), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Rang De Basanti* (2006), Director, Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/rang-de-basanti.md)
- *Aks* (2001), Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Karna*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra](https://film.one/media/person/4155058/gallery-7fb0071b0476.jpg) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra — Bollywood Hungama, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Rakeysh_Omprakash_Mehra_MFF_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and wife, P.S. Bharathi. Photo by James C. Dooley. (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/4155058/gallery-b98ac788d9d7.jpg) Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and wife, P.S. Bharathi. Photo by James C. Dooley. (2014) — Laura Lee Dooley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Rakeysh_Omprakash_Mehra_and_wife%2C_P.S._Bharathi_%28IIFA-2014-GreenCarpet2_%28110%29.jpg/1280px-Rakeysh_Omprakash_Mehra_and_wife%2C_P.S._Bharathi_%28IIFA-2014-GreenCarpet2_%28110%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Filmfare Award for Best Director 2014: Filmfare Award for Best Director (won), for *Bhaag Milkha Bhaag*
- Filmfare Award for Best Director 2007: Filmfare Award for Best Director (won), for *Rang De Basanti*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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