Vijay Maurya

Indian actor, writer and director

Vijay Maurya

Nationality| Indian
Occupation| Actor, Writer, Director
Spouse(s)| Payal Arora

Vijay Maurya is an Indian actor, writer and director who works in Hindi films and theatre.[1] He is best known for his work in the 2019 Hindi musical film Gully Boy.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
* 2.1 Theatre
* 2.2 Films
* 2.3 Commercials
* 3 Filmography
* 4 Filmfare Awards
* 5 IIFA Awards
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## Early life[edit]

Maurya was born and raised in Mumbai, Maharashtra. His brother, Ajay "Teddy" Maurya, is also an actor, who has principally served as an art director in many films.

## Career[edit]

### Theatre[edit]

Maurya began his career in theatre by enrolling in a workshop under Satyadev Dubey for acting. He was an integral part of Prithvi Theatre from 1993 to 2008. He has worked in 14 original plays which have had a total of over 2500 shows. Some of his plays include Meena Kumari, Airawat, Solah Saal Ka Aakash, Jungle Ke Paar, Laila, Sa Hi Besura. The play Sa Hi Besura[3] which came out in 2007 is still running with successful shows.

He has worked with Makrand Deshpande, Sudhir Pandey, Kay Kay Menon, Sanjna Kapoor among others.

### Films[edit]

Maurya has acted in critically acclaimed films like Nishikant Kamat's Mumbai Meri Jaan[4] and Anurag Kashyap's[5] Black Friday.[6] He is also a screenwriter and has won a National Film Award for Best Screenplay for the film Chillar Party along with Nitesh Tiwari and Vikas Bahl at the 59th National Film Awards.[7] His latest film Gully Boy as writer and supporting actor has been well received both critically and commercially.

Maurya made his digital debut as a director with the Amazon Original series Crash Course, created, produced and written by former UTV Motion Pictures associate Manish Hariprasad and co-written by Raina Roy.

### Commercials[edit]

Having directed over a 150 commercials, Maurya is known for his witty sense of humour and has directed commercials for a number of Indian and International brands. He continues to work as an ad-film director along with his film commitments.

## Filmography[edit]

Year | Title | Notes

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1998 | Satya | Actor
1999 | Mast | Actor
2003 | Paanch | As Pondy
2004 | Black Friday | As Dawood Ibrahim[8]
2005 | Socha Na Tha | Actor
2008 | Bombay to Bangkok | Actor
2008 | Mumbai Meri Jaan | Actor
2009 | Aage Se Right | Actor
2009 | Ride the Wave Johnny | Actor
2009 | Peter Gaya Kaam Se | Actor
2010 | Bombay Mirror | Actor, short film
2010 | Striker | Co-Writer, Screenplay & Dialogues
2010 | Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey | Dialogues
2010 | Tees Maar Khan | Actor
2011 | Chillar Party | Co-Writer, Screenplay & Dialogues
2013 | Tendulkar Out | Actor
2014 | Bhoothnath Returns | Actor[9]
2014 | Nachom-ia Kumpasar | Actor
2015 | The Letters | Actor
2015 | Hunterrr | Dialogues, Lyrics
2015 | Vakratunda Mahakaaya | Actor
2015 | Dhanak | Actor
2016 | Photocopy | Director, Co-Writer - Screenplay & Dialogues, Lyrics
2017  | Tumhari Sulu | Actor, Additional Writer - Screenplay & Dialogues, Diction Coach
2019  | Gully Boy | Actor & Dialogues[10]
2019 | Sacred Games | As Ram Gopal Verma[11]
2021  | The White Tiger | As Mukesh 'The Mongoose'
2021 | Radhe | Co-Writer, Screenplay & Dialogues
2022 | A Thursday | Dialogues
2022 | Darlings | Actor
2022  | Rangbaaz: Darr Ki Rajneeti | Lakhan Rai[12]

## Filmfare Awards[edit]

Year | Category | For | Result | Ref

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2018 | Best Dialogue | Tumhari Sulu | Nominated |
2020 | Gully Boy | Won |

## IIFA Awards[edit]

Year | Category | For | Result | Ref

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2020 | Best Dialogue | Gully Boy | Won |

## References[edit]

1. ^ Hindustan Times (19 December 2021). "Line between commercial and art films is getting blurred: Vijay Maurya". Archived from the original on 8 August 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
2. ^ "EXCLUSIVE| Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh discovered that passion one can't write on paper, says Gully Boy dialogue writer Vijay Maurya". www.timesnownews.com. Retrieved 26 February 2019.
3. ^ "Hindustan Times - Archive News". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
4. ^ admin (1 February 2013). "Mayank Shekhar's Review: Mumbai Meri Jaan".
5. ^ "Black Friday - movie review by Vijay Venkataramanan - Planet Bollywood".
6. ^ "B-Town's Dawood fascination continues". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012.
7. ^ "MSN India - Best of Bollywood, South Cinema, TV and Celebs". Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
8. ^ "Bollywood dares to portray Dawood Ibrahim, liberates itself from fear of underworld".
9. ^ "लीक हुआ टाइगर श्रॉफ की फिल्म 'मुन्ना माइकल' का क्लाइमेक्स सीन! | Bollywood Life हिंदी". 6 March 2017.
10. ^ Guha, Aniruddha (14 January 2019). "For those tripping on the #GullyBoy dialogues but don't know who wrote them, it's @urfvijaymaurya at work (also seen as the asshole office manager in the trailer). Puts the kadak in sadakchhaap". @AniGuha. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
11. ^ "'Sacred Games' plays it silly in season 2". 15 August 2019.
12. ^ "'It Has Nothing To...': Vineet Kumar On Similarities Between Rangbaaz 3 And Shahabuddin's Life". Jagran English. 25 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.

## External links[edit]

* Vijay Maurya at IMDb

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National Film Award for Best Screenplay

1967–1980|

* S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1967)
* Pandit Anand Kumar (1968)
* Puttanna Kanagal (1969)
* Satyajit Ray (1970)
* Tapan Sinha (1971)
* Gulzar (1972)
* Mrinal Sen and Ashish Burman (1973)
* Satyajit Ray (1974)
* No Award (1975)
* Vijay Tendulkar (1976)
* Satyadev Dubey, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad (1977)
* T. S. Ranga and T. S. Nagabharana (1978)
* Sai Paranjpye (1979)
* Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000|

* K. Balachander (1981)
* Mrinal Sen (1982)
* G. V. Iyer (1983)
* Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1984)
* Bhabendra Nath Saikia (1985)
* Budhdhadeb Dasgupta (1986)
* Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1987)
* Arundhati Roy (1988)
* M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1989)
* K. S. Sethumadhavan (1990)
* M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1991)
* M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1992)
* Satyajit Ray (1993)
* M. T. Vasudevan Nair (1994)
* Saeed Akhtar Mirza and Ashok Mishra (1995)
* Agathiyan (1996)
* Rituparno Ghosh (1997)
* Ashok Mishra (1998)
* Madampu Kunjukuttan (1999)
* Bharathiraja (2000)

2001–present|

* Neelakanta (2001)
* Aparna Sen (2002)
* Goutam Ghose (2003)
* Manoj Tyagi and Nina Arora (2004)
* Prakash Jha, Manoj Tyagi and Shridhar Raghavan (2005)
* Abhijat Joshi, Rajkumar Hirani and Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2006)
* Feroz Abbas Khan (2007)
* Sachin Kundalkar (2008)

Original|

* P. F. Mathews and Harikrishna (2009)
* Vetrimaaran (2010)
* Nitesh Tiwari, Vikas Bahl, and Vijay Maurya (2011)
* Sujoy Ghosh (2012)
* P. Sheshadri (2013)
* Srijit Mukherji (2014)
* Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)
* Syam Pushkaran (2016)
* Sajeev Pazhoor (2017)
* Rahul Ravindran (2018)

Adapted|

* Gopal Krishan Pai and Girish Kasaravalli (2009)
* Anant Mahadevan and Sanjay Pawar (2010)
* Avinash Deshpande Nigdi (2011)
* Bhavesh Mandalia and Umesh Shukla (2012)
* Panchakshari (2013)
* Joshy Mangalath (2014)
* Vishal Bhardwaj (2015)
* Sanjay Krishnaji Patil (2016)
* Jayaraj (2017)
* Sriram Raghavan , Arijit Biswas, Yogesh Chandekar, Hemanth M. Rao and Pooja Ladha Surti (2018)

Dialogues|

* Pandiraj (2009)
* Sanjay Pawar (2010)
* Girish Kulkarni (2011)
* Anjali Menon (2012)
* Sumitra Bhave (2013)
* Vishal Bhardwaj (2014)
* Juhi Chaturvedi and Himanshu Sharma (2015)
* Tharun Bhascker (2016)
* Sambit Mohanty (2017)
* Churni Ganguly (2018)

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Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue

1959–1970|

* Rajinder Singh Bedi (1959)
* Ramanand Sagar (1960)
* Amanullah Khan, Kamal Amrohi, Wajahat Mirza & Ehsan Rizvi (1961)
* Wajahat Mirza (1962)
* Akhtar ul Iman (1963)
* Arjun Dev Rashk (1964)
* Govind Moonis (1965)
* Akhtar ul Iman (1966)
* Vijay Anand (1967)
* Manoj Kumar (1968)
* Ali Raza (1969)
* Pt Anand Kumar (1970)

1971–1990|

* Rajinder Singh Bedi (1971)
* Gulzar (1972)
* Ramesh Pant (1973)
* Gulzar (1974)
* Kaifi Azmi (1975)
* Salim-Javed (1976)
* Sagar Sarhadi (1977)
* Vrajendra Gaur (1978)
* Rahi Masoom Raza (1979)
* Satyadev Dubey (1980)
* Shabd Kumar (1981)
* Kader Khan (1982)
* Dr. Achla Nagar (1983)
* Mahesh Bhatt (1984)
* Sai Paranjpye (1985)
* Rahi Masoom Raza (1986)
* no award (1987)
* no award (1988)
* Kamlesh Pandey (1989)
* Javed Akhtar (1990)

1991–2010|

* Suraj Sanim (1991 )
* Rahi Masoom Raza (1992)
* Kader Khan (1993)
* Prof Jay Dixit (1994)
* K K Singh (1995)
* Aditya Chopra & Javed Siddiqui (1996)
* Gulzar (1997)
* Aditya Chopra (1998)
* Rajkumar Santoshi & K. K. Raina (1999)
* Hriday Lani & Pathik Vats (2000)
* O. P. Dutta (2001)
* Karan Johar (2002)
* Gulzar & Jaideep Sahni (2003)
* Abbas Tyrewala (2004)
* Aditya Chopra (2005)
* Prakash Jha (2006)
* Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi (2007)
* Imtiaz Ali (2008)
* Manu Rishi (2009)
* Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (2010)

2011–present|

* Habib Faisal (2011)
* Farhan Akhtar (2012)
* Anurag Kashyap, Zeishan Quadri, Akhilesh Jaiswal & Sachin Ladia (2013)
* Subhash Kapoor (2014)
* Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2015)
* Himanshu Sharma (2016)
* Ritesh Shah (2017)
* Hitesh Kewaliya (2018)
* Akshat Ghildial (2019)
* Vijay Maurya (2020)
* Juhi Chaturvedi (2021)

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