Background
He was born in Delhi to a Army officer and travelled across India when he was young.
He was born in Delhi to a Army officer and travelled across India when he was young.
He graduated in Delhi and started an animation studio with a friend, one of the first in India. He studied film-making at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, graduating in 1997.
He is best known for his Bollywood film, NH10. He lived in the United States for eight years and two years in London before moving to India in 1999. After graduating Singh directed commercials and music videos for UGround and Cognito in Los Angeles, and Great Guns in London.
He then moved to Mumbai in 2001 and has directed a number of award winning commercials.
Bollywood
His debut in Bollywood with feature film Manorama Six Feet Under, a murder mystery, was critically acclaimed. lieutenant is regarded as one of the best noir films.
After a gap of seven years and two aborted films, his 2015 thriller film NH10, with Anushka Sharma"s home production and in the lead, was commercially successful. The film is about honour killing and patriarchy.
When it was screened to the censor board, half the members wanted to ban the film.
He is working on his next film, Kaneda, pronounced the way some rural Punjabis pronounce Canada. The film is about the rise and fall of a Punjabi gangster in Vancouver. lieutenant is being produced by director Aanand L. Rai.
He might also work on making the first ever movie adaptation of a graphic novel in India.