Indian movie director Mukul Anand was an apt director who has strong connection in Indian film industry. The actor director Tinnu Anand is his cousin while he was the nephew of scriptwriter Inder Raj Anand. Mukul S. Anand made his debut as a director with the suspense thriller Kanoon Kya Karega in the year 1984 which was regarded as lightly inspired by the Hollywood film Cape Fear. He then directed Aitbaar in 1985 which was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock`s classic Dial M for Murder. The film which first brought him recognition was the epic film Sultanat, a film which brought together real-life father and son Dharmendra and Sunny Deol and also introduced actress Juhi Chawla.

His journey goes on and he directed a few other films which did not do well in the box office. Rajkumar Santoshi was critically acclaimed for his crime thriller Agneepath in the year 1990 with Amitabh Bachchan in the lead role which won Amitabh a National Award for Best Actor. His next notable film was the family drama `Hum` in 1991 also with Bachchan in the lead as well as Rajnikant and Govinda which was a huge success. He worked with Bachchan again for the final time in `Khuda Gawah` in 1992 which won him the Filmfare Best Director Award. His last completed film was Trimurti 1995 which had a multi starcast including Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor and Shahrukh Khan. Mukul was married to Anita and had two children Alishka and Mikhail. Mukul died of a heart attack at the age of 45 in September 1997. At the time of his death he was working on the film `Dus`. The film remains incomplete and unreleased. The climax scenes and some action sequences were being filmed from May 1997 and 40% of the shooting had been completed by August. Promo videos and clips from what was shot of the film can be seen on his official website which is maintained by his wife Anita and sister Beena.

Indian movie director Mukul Anand won the filmfare awards as best director for his film `Khuda Gawah` where Amitabh Bachchan was at the lead role.