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Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan born 5 February 1976 in Mumbai, India is an Indian actor and the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. He married actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai in 2007.

Abhishek is of Punjabi Sikh heritage from his grandmother Teji's side, while also of Bengali Kulin Brahmin descent from his mother Jaya Bhaduri's side.


Delhi 6 (2009) Dostana (2008) Drona (2008) Sarkaar Raj (2008) Jhoom Barabar Jhoom (2007)

Guru (2007) Dhoom-.html">Dhoom 2 (2006) Umrao Jaan (2006) Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006)

Bluff Master (2005) Antar Mahal (2005) Dus (2005) Sarkar (2005) Bunty Aur Babli (2005)

Naach (2004) Phir Milenge (2004) Dhoom (2004) Yuva (2004) Run (2004) LOC Kargil (2003)

Zameen (2003) Kuch Naa Kaho (2003) Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost (2003)

Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003) Desh (2002) Om Jai Jagadish (2002) Shararat (2002)

Haan Maine Bhi Pyaar Kiya (2002) Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai (2001) Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya (2000)

Dhaai Akshar Prem Ke (2000) Refugee (2000)









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Abhishek Bachchan - what members say


  • Yuva
  • Yuva review by from London, England
    Rated - 3.0 stars The story of 3 youths.. 28 July 2004
    ... YUVA (translates to Youth) tells the story of three youngsters, and Lallan (Abhishek Bachchan), Michael (Ajay Devgan) and Arjun (Vivek Oberoi). Lallan is a henchman working...   Read customer review
  • Dhoom 2
  • Dhoom 2 review by Hardik from
    Rated - 5.0 stars marvelous movie 9 June 2011
    ..... very good film, good direction Mr Sanjay Gadhavi, good acting Hritik Rosan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, action, good story.. overall 5 star out of 5 star...   Read customer review
  • Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
  • Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna review by from England
    Rated - 2.0 stars Watch only for AB 2.0 19 March 2007
    ...Abhishek Bachchan injected a lot of sincerity and emotion into his role - a surprisingly realistic portrayal of a jilted husband in the fantasy world of Bollywood. The other pe...   Read customer review

Abhishek Bachchan - filmography


  • Players on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Bipasha Basu Sonam Kapoor,  Bobby Deol
    Director: Abbas-Mustan
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Charlie Masceranhas is a Chartered Accountant by day and a master-thief by night. With his razor-sharp intelligence and precision planning, there has been no job so far in his career which has been too tough for him. But when he receives a posthumous DVD from a dead friend that contains information ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 41 members
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  • Dum Maaro Dum (2011)
    Starring: Prateik Babbar,  RaNa Daggubati,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Rohan Sippy
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Five strangers find their lives forever changed following a chance encounter at the Goa Airport. When Lorry's (Prateik Babbar) scholarship to a prominent U.S. school is rejected, his life falls to chaos. He fears he may never see his girlfriend again, until a mysterious stranger makes him an offer ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 12 members
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  • Game on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Kangana Ranaut,  Anupam Kher
    Director: Abhinay Deo
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    "Game" is a story of four strangers who have been invited by the reclusive Kabir Malhotra, to his private island of Samos, Greece. They don't know each other and they don't know him... and by the next morning they will wish they had never come. "Game" is a whodunnit tale spanning five international ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 170 members
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  • Raavan on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Aishwarya Rai,  Chiyaan' Vikram
    Director: Mani Ratnam
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Dev falls for Ragini, a spunky classical dancer who is as unconventional as him. They get married and he takes up his new post in Lal Maati, a small town in northern India. A town where the world of law is not the police but Beera, a tribal who has, over the years, shifted the power equation of ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 56 members
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  • Paa on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Vidya Balan
    Director: R. Balki
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Auro is an intelligent and witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated aging. He suffers from a progeria-like syndrome. Mentally he is 13, very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 531 members
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  • Paa - Blu-ray (2009)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Vidya Balan
    Director: R. Balki
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Auro is an intelligent and witty 13-year-old boy with an extremely rare genetic defect that causes accelerated aging. He suffers from a progeria-like syndrome. Mentally he is 13, very normal, but physically he looks five times older. In spite of his condition, Auro is a very happy boy. He lives ..read more »
    1 star out of 5 60% from 2 members
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  • Delhi 6 on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Sonam Kapoor,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Rakeysh Mehra
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Roshan travels from the United States to India with his ailing grandmother. Little does he know that this quick trip will turn into the longest journey of his life--a journey within! The story is told against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of Delhi which is a character by itself. A city ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 814 members
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  • Dostana on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  John Abraham,  Priyanka Chopra
    Director: Tarun Mansukhani
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    It's all happening in the Beach Party Capital of the world.....Miami is the setting for Dharma Productions latest offering Dostana - serving a cocktail of all ingredients to do with Friendship, Fun, Frolic and that thing called Love....but with a slight twist there is a small case of pretending to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 853 members
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  • Mission Istanbul (2008)
    Starring: Shabbir Ahluwalia,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Shweta Bhardwaj
    Director: Apoorva Lakhia
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A promising journalist Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) is offered a position to head a controversial news station in Istanbul by its owner Owais Husain (Sunil Shetty). With this offer comes the promise of money and many other perks that make this offer hard to refuse. But when he begins to consider ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 21 members
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  • Sarkaar Raj on DVD (2008)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Aishwarya Rai
    Director: Ram Gopal Varma
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
    When Anita Rajan, CEO of an international firm, brings a power plant proposal to set up in rural Maharashtra, before the Nagres, the insightful Shankar is quick to realize its benefits. After convincing Sarkar, Shankar along with Anita goes to the villages to mobilize support of the masses. However,..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 1,147 member
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  • Guru on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Aishwarya Rai,  Mithun Chakravarty
    Director: Mani Ratnam
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Gurukant Desai (Abhishek) is the ambitious son of a small-time school teacher (Rajendra Gupta). After failing at school and earning his pessimistic father's displeasure he travels to Turkey for work. There he does well, but opts to return home to work for himself. Home, and lacking enough capital ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,144 member
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  • Laaga Chunari Mein Daag on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jaya Bachchan,  Rani Mukerji,  Konkona Sen Sharma
    Director: Pradeep Sarkar
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Badki (elder sister) Rani Mukherji and Chutki (little sister) Konkona live a fun-filled life in Banaras, playing pranks, sneaking off to see a forbidden mujra, and soaking up all the excitement that goes on the ghats of the Ganga. When things get bad, Badki decides to go to Mumbai and seek a living ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 836 members
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  • Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Shahrukh Khan,  Rani Mukherjee
    Director: Karan Johar
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    There are three kinds of married people in the world. First, whose marriages are arranged. Then there are those who fall in love and marry their soul mates. These few are the most fortunate people in the world. And lastly, there are those couples that marry for their parents, for money or play it ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,402 member
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  • Umrao Jaan on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Aishwarya Rai,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Shabana Azmi
    Director: J P Dutta
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The real wealth of people is their culture and literary work. Which reflects the times, the place and the people. One such work was Mirza Hadi Ruswa's Umrao Jaan Ada. Ruswa was a teacher in mathematics, science, philosophy & Persian. Ruswa was born in 1857 in Licknow and his parents died when he ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 586 members
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  • Dhoom 2 on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Hrithik Roshan,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Bipasha Basu
    Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    You Could'nt wipe The Smile Off Of Rookie Cop Ail's Face.Teamed Up With Fellow Officer Jai,His Dream Of Keeping The Streets Of India Safe Had Finally Become A Reality.But When A Hi-Tech International Thief Going By The Guise 'Mr.A' Targets Mumbai For His Next Spectacular Heist,It's Not Long Until ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,772 member
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  • Dhoom 2 - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Hrithik Roshan,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Bipasha Basu
    Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    You Could'nt wipe The Smile Off Of Rookie Cop Ail's Face.Teamed Up With Fellow Officer Jai,His Dream Of Keeping The Streets Of India Safe Had Finally Become A Reality.But When A Hi-Tech International Thief Going By The Guise 'Mr.A' Targets Mumbai For His Next Spectacular Heist,It's Not Long Until ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 60 members
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  • Dus (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Sanjay Dutt,  Suniel Shetty,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Anubhav Sinha
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Sanjay Dutt, Abhishek Bachchan, Zayed Khan and Shilpa Shetty work for the anti-terrorist cell. They get to understand that a dreaded terrorist in Canada [of Indian origin] is set to wreak havoc when the Indian Prime Minister is supposed to visit Canada, killing thousands of innocent civilians in ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,311 member
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  • Bunty Aur Babli on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Rani Mukerji,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Director: Shaad Ali Sahgal
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Bunty and Babi are two avid dreamers -- two free souls born into caged small town realities. They grow weary of being two specks on the horizon. They desire the horizon itself. And, so they pack their aspirations in worn out bags, whip a scarf of confidence around their proud necks and set forth on ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 2,204 members
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  • Bluff Master on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Ritesh Deshmukh,  Priyanka Chopra
    Director: Rohan Sippy
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Roy (Abhishek Bachchan) is a professional conman, who has raised his work to the level of an art. The only true thing he has is his love for Simmi (Priyanka Chopra) - someone who is so rooted, honest and sincere, that he can't bring himself to tell her the reality of who he is. But when his past ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,271 member
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  • Neal 'N' Nikki on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Uday Chopra,  Tanisha Mukherjee,  Richa Pallod
    Director: Arjun Sablok
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Set across the stunning landscape of British Columbia in Canada, Neal 'n' Nikki is the story of two Indians, born and bred in Canada. It is the story of a journey that changes their lives forever... Neal (Uday Chopra) gives into his parents' wishes of marrying a girl called Sweetie from Bhatinda, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 864 members
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  • Dhoom - Blu-ray (2004)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Uday Chopra,  John Abraham
    Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    When an armoured truck is robbed by four bikers using custom motorcycles, CID officer Jai Dixit turns to Ali, a garage mechanic, for help in tracking them down. However Ali is a reluctant partner at best, and may not be quite the help Jai needs him to be in order to catch the gang.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 22 members
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  • Naach on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Antara Mali
    Director: Ram Gopal Varma
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A love triangle between two people and their values. A married newspaper editor has feelings for his secretary and a relationship develops. Unbeknown to them, their respective partners are also embroiled in an illicit affair.
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 582 members
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  • Dhoom on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Uday Chopra,  John Abraham
    Director: Sanjay Gadhvi
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    High-speed criminals terrorize a city, and it's up to one man and his sidekick to bring them down in this action thriller from India. A crime wave hits the city of Mumbai when a gang of daring thieves on souped-up motorcycles, led by the corrupt but methodical Kabir (John Abraham), stage a series ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 2,206 members
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  • Yuva on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Ajay Devgan,  Vivek Oberoi,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Mani Ratnam
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    3 Young men. From 3 stratas of society. With 3 entirely different points of view towards life... ... Their paths cross over the Hoogly Bridge on a Thursday morning. Their lives change irreversibly.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 933 members
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  • Run on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Bhoomika Chawla
    Director: Jeeva
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Every day brings with it many situations. Each situation brings with it some choices. Each choice brings with it two roads. One road which you run towards; the other which you run away from. But run you must!
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 453 members
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  • Sarkar on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Amitabh Bachchan,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Ram Gopal Varma
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Tells the story of Priyamvada Veer Pratap Singh, who is caught in the tension between caring for the needs of her family and taking part in political power games.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,892 member
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  • Rakht on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Sanjay Dutt,  Sunil Shetty,  Dino Morea
    Director: Mahesh Manjrekar
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Drishti, a young widow and mother, is gifted with the ability to see into the future through visions and tarot readings. She uses her gifts to help out the school principal whose fiancee has suddenly disappeared. However using her abilities to find the woman will soon place her in life threatening ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 490 members
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  • Kuch Naa Kaho on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Aishwarya Rai
    Director: Rohan Sippy
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Raj lives in New York and is against arranged marriage. When he visits India for a family wedding he is smitten with his uncle's colleague Namrata, who has agreed to find Raj a bride. Soon however, the pair realise their love for one another...
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,054 member
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  • Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Lara Dutta,  Aditya Lakhia
    Director: Apoorva Lakhia
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Indian is Land of a billion people, 60 persent of which are living in over 500,000 villages spread around the country. Besides the best efforts of the Indian Rural Department about 87,000 of these villages to this date do not have electricity. 'Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost' takes place in one such village.
    2 stars out of 5 43% from 261 members
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  • Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon (2003)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Ruby Bhatia,  Tanaaz Currim
    Director: Sooraj R. Barjatya
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Roopa (Tanaaz Currim) from the U.S., the elder married daughter of Satyaprakash (Pankaj Kapur) and Susheela (Himani Shivpuri) has a marriage proposal for her younger sister Sanjana (Kareena Kapoor), that being Prem Kumar (Abishek Bachchan). She emails her dad that Prem is on his way to see Sanjana. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 128 members
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  • Zameen on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Bipasha Basu,  Kamal Chopra
    Director: Rohit Shetty
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    We live in an age of terror, an age where evil is inflicted upon innocents in unprecedented events like the Mumbai blasts, 11th Sep., Akshardham, the Parliment attack to name a few. In this milieu, unconsciously its always the innocent who are trapped and are set through the trials of our time. Our ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 187 members
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  • Refugee on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Kareena Kapoor,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Anupam Kher
    Director: J.P. Dutta
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    REFUGEE features a young man with no name and no homeland who makes his living guiding other refugees across the Judian and Pakistani borders. Although he attempts to develop no emotional ties to his clients, it's love at first sight when he meets a young woman fleeing from Bangladesh.
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 456 members
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  • Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Paresh Rawal,  Abhishek Bachchan,  Kirti Reddy
    Director: A. Muthu
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Pooja spends too long on leave to attend her friend's wedding. When a colleague claims that she was late back because she had got engaged to a photographer she met there, her boss changes his mind about firing her. When she meets his son she regrets the lie her friend told, so they pretend that the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 168 members
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  • IIFA Awards Yorkshire 2007 on DVD
    Starring: Abhishek Bachchan,  Aishwarya Rai,  Amitabh Bachchan
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The 8th IDEA IIFA Awards, hosted in Yorkshire, was the biggest celebration of Indian Cinema with spectacular performances by the biggest superstars and India's best talent receiving top honours. World-class production, high-energy entertainment and frenzied fans made the IDEA IIFA Awards a night to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 9 members
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  • Om Jai Jagadish on DVD
    Starring: Anil Kapoor,  Fardeen Khan,  Abhishek Bachchan
    Director: Anupam Kher
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Om Jai Jagadish is the story of a mother Saraswati Batra (Waheeda Rehman) and her three sons Om (Anil Kapoor), Jai (Fardeen Khan) and Jagadish (Abhishek Bachchan). Through the trials of everyday life, and the tests that opportunities present to them they must struggle to remain together or risk ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 321 members
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Abhishek Bachchan facts

5 most recent films

Players - 2.5 stars
F.A.L.T.U. - 2.0 stars
Dum Maaro Dum - 3.0 stars
Game - 3.0 stars
Raavan - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Paa - 3.5 stars
Dostana - 3.5 stars
Laaga Chunari Mein Daag - 3.5 stars
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna - 3.5 stars
Guru - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Paa - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
F.A.L.T.U. - 2.0 stars
Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey - 2.0 stars
Mission Istanbul - 2.0 stars
Dhoom - Blu-ray - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Aishwarya Rai - 16 times - show films
Amitabh Bachchan - 16 times - show films
Uday Chopra - 7 times - show films
Priyanka Chopra - 6 times - show films
Bipasha Basu - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Rohan Sippy - 7 times - show films
Sanjay Gadhvi - 6 times - show films
Goldie Behl - 5 times - show films
Karan Johar - 4 times - show films
Ram Gopal Varma - 4 times - show films