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Amar Kaushik Biography: Age, Career, Family and More

F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 5, 2026 • 3 min read

Quick Info

Date of birth1983

Age41 Years (as of 2024)

BirthplaceArunachal Pradesh

ProfessionActor and Director

NationalityIndian

Amar Kaushik Biography

Amar Kaushik is an Indian actor and director from Arunachal Pradesh, known for his award-winning short film Aaba and for directing the feature Stree. Hehas

Early life and background

Amar Kaushik was born in Arunachal Pradesh in 1983 and raised there. He later moved to Mumbai, Maharashtra, where he is based. Kaushik completed a graduate degree in Mass Communication. Physical details commonly listed for him include a height of about 168 cm (5'6"), a weight near 65 kg (143 lbs), black hair and black eyes.

Career

Kaushik has worked in Hindi cinema both in front of and behind the camera. He began his film career around 2008, credited as an actor in the film Aamir and also serving on that production as an assistant director. Over subsequent years he took on assistant-directing duties on several projects, collaborating with filmmakers including Onir and Rajkumar Gupta. His assistant-director credits extend to titles such as No One Killed Jessica and Go Goa Gone, among others.

As an actor Kaushik has appeared in multiple Hindi films, with parts in No One Killed Jessica (2011), Go Goa Gone (2013) and Ghanchakkar (2013) listed among his screen appearances.

Kaushik moved into directing shorts and features. His directorial short Aaba was developed from a story his mother told him when he was young. Aaba received critical recognition, earning a special prize from the Generation Kplus International Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival and a National Film Award for Best Short Fiction. He has acknowledged financial support from a friend, Raj Kumar Gupta, during the making of Aaba.

Following his short, Kaushik made his feature directorial debut with the film Stree in 2018. He also worked as an assistant director on international projects, including Beyond the Clouds (2017) with Iranian filmmaker Majid Majidi.

Public profile

Kaushik is identified professionally as an actor and director and is associated with the Hindi film industry. Public records note his nationality as Indian and his religion as Hinduism. Details about his family beyond references to his mother’s storytelling influence are not provided in the available material, and his marital status and information about romantic relationships are not listed.

Awards and recognition

Aaba brought Kaushik international and national recognition, winning a Generation Kplus International Jury prize at the Berlin International Film Festival and a National Film Award in the Best Short Fiction category. These honors helped raise his profile ahead of his transition to feature filmmaking.

Latest updates

By 2018 Kaushik had directed the feature film Stree and continued to be credited on a range of projects both as an actor and as an assistant director. The most recent specific credits noted include his assistant-director work on Beyond the Clouds (2017) and his directing of Stree (2018).

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Recent Work

Aaba

Directorial short film developed from a story his mother told him; won awards including a Generation Kplus International Jury prize at Berlin and a National Film Award for Best Short Fiction.

2017
Stree

Feature film directed by Amar Kaushik.

2018
Beyond the Clouds

Worked as an assistant director on this international project with director Majid Majidi.

2017
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Career Highlights

  1. Directed the award-winning short film Aaba
  2. Won a Generation Kplus International Jury prize at the Berlin International Film Festival for Aaba
  3. Won the National Film Award for Best Short Fiction for Aaba
  4. Directed the feature film Stree (2018)
  5. Worked as assistant director on films including Aamir, No One Killed Jessica and Beyond the Clouds
Reviewed by F4U Editorial Desk

F4U profile pages are prepared from public career information, checked for readability, and updated when reliable correction sources are shared with the editorial team.

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