Satish Chandra Kaushik (13 April 1956 – 9 March 2023) was an Indian actor, director, producer, comedian, editor and screenwriter. He found his fame in Bollywood with Mr. India starring Anil Kapoor, Sridevi and Amrish Puri, where he played the iconic character of a cook named Calendar. He was also an assistant director in the film
Satish Chandra Kaushik
13-04-1956
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Mahendragarh, Haryana, India
Filmography
Shashi Kaushik
1981–2023
Married
Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi
Hindu
Indian
As a film actor, he was noted for his roles as "Calendar" in Mr. India,[5] as Pappu Pager in Deewana Mastana, and as "Chanu Ahmed" in Sarah Gavron's British film Brick Lane (2007). He won the Filmfare Best Comedian Award twice: in 1990 for Ram Lakhan and in 1997 for Saajan Chale Sasural.[6]
As a theatre actor, his most noted role was that of "Willy Loman" in the Hindi-language play, Salesman Ramlal, an adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.[7] Kaushik wrote dialogues for Kundan Shah's comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983).[8] His 2009 film Teree Sang, starring Ruslaan Mumtaz and Sheena Shahabadi, explores issues of teen pregnancy.[9] His first film as a director was Sridevi's Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993). His second was Prem (1995), which was supposed to be Tabu's inaugural film. Both were box office disasters.[10] He continued to make films and got his first hit with Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in 1999.
He co-wrote and anchored a TV countdown show, Top Ten, for which he won the Screen Videocon Award.[11] In 2005, Kaushik directed Arjun Rampal, Amisha Patel, and Zayed Khan in Vaada.[12] In 2007 Kaushik, together with Anupam Kher, who had been his classmate at NSD, launched a new film company called Karol Bagh Productions.[13] Their first film, Teree Sang, was directed by Satish Kaushik.[14]
His next work was to be based on the life of Tansen, in which the role of Tansen will be played by Abhishek Bachchan, and the soundtrack will be composed by Ravindra Jain; the script for the film is still being finished.[15] Kaushik was working to promote Haryana's film industry, and was committed to making several films there.[16]
Chandigarh film city project
Kaushik was a partner in the Chandigarh film city project with real estate company Parsavnath Developers.[17] They bought a 30-acre (12 ha) plot in Sarangpur Village, Chandigarh for little money, but they were forced to give up the project after foul play was exposed by media.
Kaushik acted in other yesteryear classics, including 'Woh Saat Din', a remake of the Tamil hit "Andha 7 Naatkal'; 'Utsav', 'Mr India'.
The sequence is one of the funniest in the movie. Two Goa police officers have been assigned to watch Kapil. Hosi (Akash Khurana) is a stickler for the rules, while Ramu (Satish Kaushik) is a movie buff. As they wait for Kapil to materialise, Ramu brags about his "childhood friend from Allahabad", who suddenly shows up and causes Ramu to faint.
The actor made a cameo with Amitabh Bachchan starrer movie 'God Tussi Great Ho'. However, the movie turned out to be a commercial disaster.
Urmila is not just an add-on to keep the adults happy, he claims, pointing out there are other actors like Satish Kaushik and Shakti Kapoor in this version.
Even Satish Kaushik, ordinarily quite good at providing humour, couldn't manage it. Had director Manoj Agarwal concentrated more on the funnier aspects, as the Govinda-Satish Kaushik duo did in Sajjan Chale Sasural, it might have provided some respite.
Satish Kaushik and Govinda together are quite hilarious towards the end of the film
Satish Kaushik plays a bad man, perhaps for the first time in his career, but he is largely ineffective.
Kaushik allows himself abundant screen time as Ruslaan's voluble, innuendo-spewing father.
Satish Kaushik plays a nut-cracker who becomes a cab (yes, a CAB), a garment-shop etc. (No, I'm NOT joking).
Satish Kaushik's role is akin to Anu Kapoor's role of the cafeteria owner in 'Tezaab'. He also gets into his hilarious 'Pappu Pager' act from 'Deewana Mastana', and seeing him shirtless, a la Salman Khan is hardly a pleasant sight.
There is an upcoming film 'Lakshmi' in which I have played a negative character. I have never played this kind of role in the past.
Satish Kaushik, who has essayed several comic characters with elan in the past, will soon be seen doing another one
In the end, however, it is Kaushik's determination to make a commercial film that tells a tale of revenge and lost-love with startling dignity that wins-and gravity be damned.
Satish Kaushik, who directed Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja and Prem, is passable as a director, considering he already had good actors who can carry their own weight.
TV actor Nivaan Sen recalls how Satish Kaushik used to encourage him as a participant on India's Best Cine Stars Ki Khoj, which was his first onscreen stint.
Since Satish Kaushik is a director and comic actor, he goes into details. Sometimes our markings are horribly similar, sometimes distinctly different.
Satish Kaushik as Jasbir Walia delivers a good performance as the obese and always hungry father
Satish Kaushik adds some respite with his overconfident portrayal of a lawyer with a constant cold who can even prove a goat guilty of killing a lion.
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