Sudhir Mishra Age, Wife, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Other name	Sudhir Bhai Mishra
Profession(s)	Theatre Artist, Film Director, Screenwriter
Physical Stats & More
Height (approx.)	in centimeters- 191 cm in meters- 1.91 m in feet & inches- 6’ 3”
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Grey
Career
Debut	Film (As a screenwriter): Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983) Film (As an actor): Khamosh (1985) in a cameo role Film (As a director): Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (1987) TV (As a director): 17 Sherly Road (1996); aired on Zee TV Web Series (As a director): Hostages (2019); streamed on Disney+ Hotstar
Awards	• 1987: Indira Gandhi Award for Best Debut Film of a Director for the Hindi film Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin • 1988: National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues for the Hindi film Main Zinda Hoon • 1991: National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi for Dharavi • 1992: Award of the City of Nantes for the Hindi films Dharavi and Tied with The Need at Nantes Three Continents Festival • 2006: Filmfare Best Story Award for the Hindi film Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi • 2010: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government • 2016: Yash Bharti Award by the Government of Uttar Pradesh • 2021: Jury Award for Best Story in a Digital Film Serious Men by WM Digital Awards • 2021: Indian Telly Streaming Award for Best Director Digital First Series
Personal Life
Date of Birth	22 January 1959 (Thursday)
Age (as of 2023)	64 Years
Birthplace	Nagpur, Maharashtra
Zodiac sign	Aquarius
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Nagpur, Maharashtra
College/University	Delhi University, New Delhi
Educational Qualification(s)	• Graduation • M Phil in Psychology [1]YouTube - Sansad TV [2]YouTube - Sansad TV
Religion	Hinduism
Caste	Brahmin
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Widower
Affairs/Girlfriends	Chitrangada Singh (actor; rumoured) [3]Amar Ujala
Marriage Date	First Marriage- Year, 1978 Second Marriage- Year, 1988
Family
Wife/Spouse	First Wife- Sushmita Mukherjee (actor; divorced) Second Wife- Renu Saluja (film editor; died in 2000)
Parents	Father- Devendra Nath Mishra (mathematician, author, and founding member of the Lucknow Film Society) Mother- Durga Devendernath Mishra
Siblings	Brother- Sudhanshu Mishra (filmmaker; younger) Sister- Name Not Known (younger)
Other Relative	Grandfather- Dwarka Prasad Mishra (former Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sudhir Mishra

• Sudhir Mishra is an Indian theatre artist, film director, and screenwriter. He has received National Awards for the Hindi films ‘Main Zinda Hoon’ (1988) and ‘Dharavi’ (1992).

• He spent his childhood in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  

  Sudhir Mishra’s childhood picture with his parents

• His father was associated with a theatre group and used to take Sudhir along with him to various theatre plays. From there, Sudhir started developing an interest in acting. Gradually, he realised that instead of acting, he was interested in the process of making films.

• Sudhir started his career as a theatre artist and worked in theatre plays of the Indian theatre dramatist Badal Sircar. After performing in a few theatre plays, he started working as a scriptwriter in theatre plays. Later, he moved to Pune from Delhi and with the help of his brother (a student at the Film and Television Institute of India), he started learning more about acting and filmmaking.
  

  Sudhir Mishra performing in a nukkad natak

• Sudhir then worked as a theatre director in various theatre plays. He has also organised various acting & film direction classes at Indian Film & Television Directors’ Association, Mumbai.

• He then started working as a director in various Hindi films and TV serials. Some of his Hindi TV serials as a director are ‘Chhapte Chhapte’ (1985) and ‘Nyay’ (1999), which aired on Doordarshan.

• He has also worked as a director and screenwriter in various Hindi films like ‘Dharavi’ (1991), ‘Chameli’ (2004), ‘Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi’ (2005), ‘Yeh Saali Zindagi’ (2011), and ‘Daas Dev’ (2018). In an interview, while talking about making his debut in Bollywood, he said,
  

  My friend Vinod Dua was interviewing Vidhu Vinod Chopra for Doordarshan and asked me to ask Vinod questions as I knew about films. Vinod, seeing my knowledge about films, asked me to come to Mumbai. He was at that time making his first film and I asked him, ‘What will I do’? He said, ‘Learn to hold the boom’. I went to Mumbai and met this liberal bunch of people Kundan Shah, Ketan Mehta, Javed Akhtar and Shekhar Kapur who became my family. Kundan would come to my house where he started writing Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and I started co-writing the script with him.”

  

  A picture of Sudhir Mishra on the sets of a film

• He has also worked as an actor in a few Hindi films like ‘Traffic Signal’ (2007) and ‘Raat Gayi, Baat Gayi?’ (2010). He played cameo roles in the films.

• He has worked as a director and screenwriter in Hindi short films such as ‘Kirchiyaan’ (2013) and ‘Life Support’ (2017).

• In an interview, while talking about his second wife Renu, he shared that after the demise of his wife, he was so depressed that he even thought of committing suicide. ^[4]The Times of India

• In 2014, the Chandigarh Police fined him for smoking a cigarette in a public place. ^[5]YouTube – ABP Sanjha

• During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, a video of a man like Sudhir Mishra went viral on social media in which a few policemen were seen beating him for breaking the quarantine guidelines. Later, Sudhir Mishra took to Twitter to give the clarification on video in which he wrote that the man in the video was not him but his look alike. ^[6]Koimoi He tweeted,
  

  I am quite amused that people think I would take a beating without reacting . Every tall white haired guy is not me . What shocks me is that the glee of the troll brigade . How sick ! Whoever that coward who takes a beating like that , it ain’t me , sickos ! Get a life !”

• In 2022, he worked as a director in the Hindi web series ‘Tanaav,’ which streamed on SonyLIV.

• He is fluent in a few languages such as Hindi, English, and Urdu.

• Sudhir is a dog lover, and he often shares pictures with dogs on his Twitter account.
  

  Sudhir Mishra with a dog

• He started practising yoga at the age of 45. He daily practices yoga for around one and a half hours.
  

  Sudhir Mishra practising yoga