Priyadarshan is a prominent film director and screenplay writer in
Hindi and Malayalam cinema. He's known to repackage hits to give life
to new ones.
Priyadarshan was born in Thiruvananthapuram, India to Mr.Nair who worked as a librarian at the University of Kerala.
He had an inclination to play cricket professionally but an injury to his left eye owing to a cricket ball dashed his hopes.
He
is married to Lizzy, a Malayalam actress also known as Lakshmi
Priyadarshini, with whom he has worked with in several movies. They
have two children, Kalyani and Siddharth.
1984 to 1992
Priyadarshan wrote and directed the Malayalam comedy Poochakkoru
Mookkuthi in 1984 which became a huge hit. It was remade in Hindi as
Hungama in 2003. He worked with friend Mohanlal in Boeing Boeing (1985)
that was another comedy. Chitram (1988), with Mohanlal playing the lead
was a commercial success. The movie was reworked in Hindi as Chori
Chori with Mithun Chakraborthy.
1993 to 1997
Abhimanyu (1991) was a story around the involvement of a man with the
underworld. Gardish (1993) starring Jackie Shroff and Dimple Kapadia
was a remake of Sibi Malayil's Kireedam. Other movies include Kaala
Pani (1996) an action-drama with Mohanlal and Tabu, Chandralekha (1997)
and Virasat (1997) a copy of Kamal Hassan's Thevar Magan with Anil
Kapoor, Tabu and Pooja Batra.
1998 to 2002
Hera Pheri (2000) was a hit comedy that was based on Ramji Rao
Speaking. He directed the Tamil movie Laysa Laysa (2002) with Madhavan
and Trisha Krishnan that was built on the original Summer in Bethlahem
Cheppu.
2003 to 2009 He
went on to direct several funnies in Hindi like Garam Masala (2005),
Malamaal Weekly (2006), Chup Chup Ke (2006), Mere Baap Pehle Aap (2008)
and Bhool Bulaiyya (2007), a horror flick.
In 2009, he has two
releases - Billu Barber based on Kadha Parayumbol with Shah Rukh Khan
and Irrfan Khan and De Dhana Dhan, a comic caper with Akshay Kumar,
Paresh Rawal and Sunil Shetty.