Aanand L Rai

With two huge successes including quirky comedy, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan and India's official entry to the Oscars, Newton, both in 2017, filmmaker Aanand L Rai has solidified his reputation for consolidating entertainment and content in his craft. After presenting small-town tales of romances under his banner, Colour Yellow Productions, the cinephile is exploring an array of genres in 2018. With a line-up of films that have made headlines before going on floors, this year looks exciting and action-packed for his production house. The first movie of the year to hit the big screen on the 12th of January, under his home banner, Mukkabaaz, has been helmed by Anurag Kashyap and is a love story of a boxer in a small town in Uttar Pradesh.