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Tinnu Anand
Anand in 2011
Born	Virender Raj Anand (1945-10-12) 12 October 1945 (age 79) Bombay, Bombay Province, British India
Alma mater	Mayo College
Occupations	Actor director writer producer
Notable work	Shahenshah Kaalia Nayakan Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire Anji (film)
Spouse	Shahnaz Anand
Children	2 (Isha Anand & Diksha Anand)
Father	Inder Raj Anand
Relatives	Siddharth Anand (nephew) Agha (father-in-Law) Jalal Agha (brother-in-law)

Tinu Anand (born Virender Raj Anand, 12 October 1945) is an Indian actor, director, writer and producer in Hindi cinema and a few Telugu and Tamil films.

Early life

He is the son of veteran writer Inder Raj Anand, brother of producer Bittu Anand and uncle of director Siddharth Anand. He did his schooling from Mayo College in India. He is married to Shahnaz, daughter of veteran actor Agha.

Career

His father, Inder Raj Anand, was a well-known writer in the film industry, but he did not want Tinnu, or his younger brother Bittu, to enter this industry. In the words of Tinnu Anand: "..when I told him I wanted to direct films, he was very upset. Ultimately, though, he saw that I didn't want to do anything else. So he sent me to the best school – the Satyajit Ray School. Mr. Ray and my father were friends, so my father asked him to take me under his wing."

Tinnu had been given a role in K. Abbas' film Saat Hindustani when.. "In the evening, I was given the dirty job of offering Amitabh Rs.5000 for the entire film, whether it took a year or five.. Amitabh reluctantly agreed as he was desperate to act. He got the role of the poet's friend in Saat Hindustani. When my father got the letter from Satyajit Ray saying I could work with him, I had to give up Saat Hindustani. So I left for Calcutta and Amitabh got the role of the poet that I was supposed to play.

(on working with actors who consistently show up quite late and put in only a few hours) "I give all the credit to Veeru (Devgan) who taught me how to unlearn what I had learnt. He told me that if you have to survive in this industry with actors like these, you should learn how to shoot a film when the actor's not there!" and: "I felt very proud when I showed Amitabh a scene between him and Amjad Khan in a dubbing studio one day. He was shocked and said 'But I never shot with Amjad'".

Anand also worked as an assistant director to Satyajit Ray for five years, in Bengali films, Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969), Aranyer Din Ratri (1970), Pratidwandi (1970), Seemabaddha (1971) to Ashani Sanket (1973).

Anand portrayed an important role in Ghajini in 2008. In an interview, Tinu Anand spoke about his early days and also praised Amitabh Bachchan for his generosity.

Filmography

As actor

References

1. N, Patcy. "I was given the dirty job of offering Amitabh Rs. 5000 for the entire film". Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
2. "Working with Satyajit Ray Was One of the Joys of Producing Shatranj Ke Khiladi". The Wire. 28 July 2017. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
3. Tinnu Anand Archived 20 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine, Rediff.com.
4. From Amitabh to Aamir, the show goes on... Archived 21 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Hindu, 23 September 2002.
5. Amitabh Archived 14 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Rediff.com.

External links

• Tinnu Anand at IMDb 
• Tinnu Anand at Bollywood Hungama

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• Indian male film actors
• Male actors in Hindi cinema
• Hindi-language film directors
• Film directors from Mumbai
• Living people
• People of Punjabi descent
• Punjabi Hindus
• Mayo College alumni
• 20th-century Indian male actors
• Indian male television actors
• 21st-century Indian male actors
• 1945 births
• Male actors in Tamil cinema
• Male actors in Telugu cinema
• Male actors in Kannada cinema
• Male actors in Malayalam cinema