Education
Saint Xavier"s College.
director screenwriter film producer
Saint Xavier"s College.
Born in Mumbai, to Raksha and Parry Dholakia, an advertising professional, Rahul also has an elder sister Moha. After completing his schooling from Campion School, Mumbai and Jamnabai Narsee School in Mumbai, he went on to do his Bachelors in Science from Saint Xavier"s College, Mumbai. While still in college he started working in his father’s advertising agency, Mora Ava.
He also worked with producer Babla Senator, for project for Channel 4, London, as production assistant and 10 documentaries later became a producer himself.
Later, he started working with Everest Advertising in Mumbai as an assistant, growing up to become a producer. Thereafter, he moved to New York in 1990, where, he did his Masters in filmmaking from the New York Institute of Technology, and has been in India and Corona, California, United States ever since.
After making a couple of documentaries and commercials, and even running television station, called "television Asia" for a while, he made his feature film debut with the Hindi-English bilingual, Kehtaa Hai Dil Baar Baar (2002), starring Paresh Rawal and Jimmy Shergill, it was also the first Hindi film shot entirely in America. After shooting in Kashmir, his next film Lamhaa, where Sanjay Dutt and Bipasha Basu played the leads, in a story based in Kashmir was released to good reviews.
Currently he is directing the movie Raees which is set to release in Eid 2016.