Siddharth Anand

After assisting Rahul Rawail on his 2001 directorial Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi, Anand co-wrote the 2004 hit Hum Tum where he also worked as executive producer and associate director.

His first directorial was the 2005 romantic comedy Salaam Namaste featuring Saif Ali Khan & Preity Zinta, that was the year's biggest hit internationally. Anand's next two ventures Ta Ra Rum Pum and Bachna Ae Haseeno were also commercially successful. These three films were part of his contract with Yash Raj Films.

This was followed by his first directorial produced by Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment, the Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra 2010 starrer Anjaana Anjaani which was an average grosser.[2]

Anand came back to direction in 2014 after a gap of 4 years with Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif starrer Bang Bang!, an official adaptation of a Hollywood film Knight and Day, that was highly successful at the box office and became Anand's first film to enter 100 Crore Club.[3]

In 2017, Anand announced that he will direct and co-produce (with Yash Raj Films) the remakes of the five films of Sylvester Stallone's Hollywood film franchise Rambo, that will star Tiger Shroff but it was getting delayed again & again due to major multiple reasons. And after three years, in 2020, he stepped down from direction whose command was finally given to director Rohit Dhawan, who is also his friend, but still he is co-producer.[4]

First reason for delaying Rambo remake was Anand's fifth film with Yash Raj Films, the 2019 action thriller War starring Roshan and Shroff, which banged at the box office and surpassed many records upon its release, entering the 300 Crore Club and establishing Anand as a major film director.[5]

Since November 2020, Anand is the director for his currently shot film Pathan, produced again by YRF and starring Shah Rukh Khan, Deepika Padukone and John Abraham as prominent characters.[6] Once he wraps up Pathan, he will begin work on FIGHTER which is a remake of Tom Cruise's Hollywood movie Top Gun.

In January 2021, Siddharth Anand started his own production house named MARFLIX, a production house dedicated to action film making in India.

On January 10, 2021 on Hrithik Roshan's Birthday, Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone announced that they will be working in Siddharth Anand's directorial FIGHTER under his newly started production house named MARFLIX also his and his wife Mamta's first outing as a producer, which is to be released on Sept 30, 2022.[7] Then Anand will begin to work on the sequel of War titled War 2 in which he will again reunite with Roshan.