Rohit Shetty The Master Of The MasalaVerse

While many film-makers might be chasing content-driven films, Rohit Shetty is sitting back and enjoying the success of his out-andout commercial entertainers. He was the man who had got the audience back to the theatres post pandemic with Sooryavanshli, and is now set to replicate his success on OTT

- Ananya Swaroop

PHOTOGRAPHER: ROHIT GUPTA

ART DIRECTOR: TANVI SHAH

FASHION EDITOR: NEELANGANA VASUDEVA

ART ASSISTANT: SIDDHI CHAVAN

COSTUMES DESIGNED & STYLED BY NAVIN SHETTY

GLASSES BY SPECSNSHADES

HAIR BY ISHTYAK ABBASI FROM TEAM HAKIM AALIM

MAKE-UP BY SANTOSH GAWADE

SUV: The all-new Hyundai TUCSON

On a sunny Mumbai day, Rohit Shetty arrives to shoot with us. The filmmaker quickly exchanges a few greetings as he rushes into his vanity to get dressed. A couple of minutes later, he is already on the floor, letting the photographer direct him, shot after shot. He is truly a man of less words, more action.

Shetty is three decades old in the industry. Born into a family where he’s grown up seeing his father, MB Shetty, doing crazy stunts and action sequences, it was a natural progression. At a very young age of 17, Shetty found himself on the sets of Ajay Devgn’s debut film Phool Aur Kaante (1991).

He was working as an assistant director, but not for long. In 2003, he decided to direct films. Surprisingly, his first hit was not an action film. Golmaal became a cult classic, a film that has added four chapters since and is one of the most successful franchises in Bollywood.