Vivek Agnihotri

Vivek Agnihotri is an avant-garde Bollywood Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has worked in genres including erotica, thriller, sports, political dramas and love stories.

Agnihotri made his directorial debut with Chocolate: Deep Dark Secrets (2005) and followed it with Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007) and the erotic thriller Hate Story.

In 2014, Agnihotri directed a psycho thriller named Zid that was produced by Anubhav Sinha. He distanced himself from the film stating that he has nothing to do with Zid but was bound by a legal clause.

In 2002, he created a production house named Vivek Agnihotri Creates Pvt. Ltd.

Vivek has been quite vocal about social issues since a while and has been voicing his opinion on social media and news media. He led the integral part of the movement countering the protests by writers and artistes against "rising intolerance", against the rebel group along with Anupam Kher, Madhur Bhandarkar, Manoj Joshi, Ashoke Pandit and many more. He was a part of a debate on the same topic on Arnab Goswami aired live on times now on 7 November 2015 along with Manoj Joshi.