Indian movie director Subhash Ghai was born on January 24th 1945. He was a very good student and after completing his studies in Haryana, Subhash Ghai joined the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. After completing his filmmaking course, he came to Mumbai to pursue his passion for movie direction. Subhash Ghai started his directorial break `Kalicharan` in 1976 with his friend Shatrughan Sinha and the movie went on to become a super hit. Subhash`s next two movies were `Vishwanath` and `Gautam Govinda`. They were not so good and in 1978 Subhash Ghai got married and formed his Company Mukta Arts.

The first movie under his banner `Karz` starring Rishi Kapoor became a super hit as well. In 1982, Subhash Ghai directed `Vidhaata` with some of the biggest names in the industry-Dilip Kumar, Shammi Kapoor and Sanjeev Kumar, and the movie was so appreciated by the audiences that it is regarded as one of the classics. Subhash Ghai became the indispensable part of the film industry and its Mukta Arts kept going stronger with every release. His next movie `Hero` with Jackie Shroff was also a success at the box-office and so was `Meri Jung` which saw Anil Kapoor in the lead.

Subash Ghai was at the peak of his career and his next movie titled `Karma` saw Dilip Kumar, Naseeruddin Shah, Jackie Shroff and Anil Kapoor in the leads with Anupam Kher as the villain. The movie became a blockbuster and the filmmaker even won a National Award for `Karma`. Subhash Ghai continued his successful journey with `Ram Lakhan`, `Saudagar`, `Khalnayak`, `Pardes` and `Taal`. In 2001, he launched `Yaadien` with Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor. But this time his movie failed and the movie was flop at the box-office and so did his next `Kisna`, which was a bigger flop. Subhash Ghai has however been very successful as a Producer and he has also launched his Film Academy-`Whistling Woods`. He has produced many of the Nagesh Kukkunoor`s film and also helped many other directors. Subhash Ghai was superstitious about the alphabet `M` and worked only with actresses whose names started with that alphabet, like Meenakshi, Madhuri, Manisha and Mahima.

Indian movie director Subhash Ghai is an award winning film director who has won filmfare awards in 1991 for `Saudagar`. He has also won the national award for his film `Karma`.