Sajid Nadiadwala Biography

Sajid Nadiadwala is currently among the top-most producers in Bollywood. Under his banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, Nadiadwala has produced successful films like JEET (1996), JUDWAA (1997), HAR DIL JO PYAR KAREGA...(2000), MUJHSE SHAADI KAROGI (2004), HEYY BEBYY (2007), KAMBAKKHT ISHQ (2009) and HOUSEFULL (2010). He is known for his extremely high production values.

Early Life

Sajid Nadiadwala was born on 18th February 1966 to a family that was highly involved in film production. His family, under the Nadiadwala banner, had produced around 200 films from as early as 1955. His grandfather was Abdul Karim Nadiadwala, father was Suleiman Nadiadwala. Other well known producers under the famous banner were Uncle Abdul Gaffar Nadiadwala, Farruk Nadiadwala, Habib Nadiadwala. Sajid is the third generation producer of the Nadiadwala banner. His cousin Firoz Nadiadwala is also a very well known producer in Bollywood today.

Sajid started off as an AC Technician. He later became a spot boy, and then gradually promoted himself to the post of a production assistant in his uncle's production house. He also was the associate producer for the Waheeda Rehman starrer PATTHAR KE SANAM (1967) which was produced by A. A. Nadiadwala. He later went on to set up his own production house - Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment.

Career

1992 - 1995

Sajid Nadiadwala started as a producer with the 1992 action film Zulm Ki Hukumat which starred Govinda and Dharmendra. It was directed by Bharat Rangachary. The film however failed. Sajid came up with his next film in 1993, WAQT HAMARA HAI, starring Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty and Mamta Kulkarni, and again directed by Bharat Rangachary. This film, too, didn't really do much at the Box-Office.

Sajid's third film as a producer was ANDOLAN (1995) starring Sanjay Dutt, Govinda and Mamta Kulkarni, and directed by Aziz Sejawal. This film was a failure too.

1996 - 2000

Sajid, after three unsuccessful ventures, finally found success in the 1996 film JEET. Starring Sunny Deol, Salman Khan and Karishma Kapoor, and directed by Raj Kanwar, JEET was an action-romantic drama that became one of the biggest hits of the year.

After a string of action films, Sajid produced a comedy film. He cast Salman Khan in a dual role in the film JUDWAA (1997). Directed by David Dhawan, this comedy film became very popular when it was released and did very well at the Box-Office. Sajid bonded well with superstar Salman Khan and the two collaborated for more films to come.

HAR DIL JO PYAR KAREGA...(2000), a romantic drama, starring Salman Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Preity Zinta, and directed by Raj Kanwar, did moderately well and received good reviews.