
Production
Dilip Shankar
Born 1970-10-29 · New Delhi, India
Dilip Shankar is known for introducing new exceptional talent as a Casting Director, his casting credits include Ang Lee's Life of Pi. Dilip is an actor and director in the Delhi theatre scene. As an actor, he is known for essaying a variety of roles - Cassio in Roysten Abel's award winning William Shakespeare's Othello-a play in black & white, Raju Guide in Sanjoy Roy's adaptation of R. K. Narayan's Guide, Jawaharlal Nehru in Pramila Le Hunte's Nehru-His Inner Story. He has worked with directors B. V. Karanth, Anamika Haksar, Abhilash Pillai, Bertina Johnson. A theatre director of note on the Delhi theatre scene, he has directed a number of plays, and has written 36 plays so far.
Acting credits
6.5The third part of the Jolly LLB trilogy brings back Jagdish Tyagi and Jagdishwar Mishra for the biggest face-off as penurious widow Janki Devi Solanki awaits justice against business tycoon Haribhai Khaitan in a satire on the judiciary, justice and the gulf between the privileged and the people on the other side of the spectrum.
Jolly LLB 3
2025
NRAfter the Sino-Indian war, a highly trained Indian spy enters Pakistan on a mission to gather crucial intelligence and stop Pakistan from launching an attack against India. Will he succeed?
Mukhbir: The Story of a Spy - The Movie
2026
5.2A Muslim fundamentalist in New York kidnaps a liberal Muslim scholar with intent to kill. A closeted lesbian in New Delhi kidnaps her activist bisexual lover with intent to marry. The resulting torture and violence evokes a brutal struggle of identities against unfreedom.
Unfreedom
2015
5.9AK Shrivastav, a quirky patient suffering from retrograde amnesia, uncovers the reason behind his condition while trying to recollect his life accurately
Kadak Singh
2023
9.0Within the Delhi based English theater group, a crisis in the personal and professional relationships of the actors is doomed to make a mockery of their attempts to stage Othello. Shakespeare's central motifs of jealousy in love, and prejudice due to cultural differences, closely resemble what is happening among the cast and the play starts to amplify and precipitate their problems towards a tragic conclusion. Yet is it in fact the spirit of the play that is doing this? SYNOPSIS A multicultural theater company in today’s New Delhi is staging a production of Shakespeare’s Othello. The director takes a bold step by casting an inexperienced small town actor as Othello. The new actor falls in love with the leading lady, who is also the director’s love-interest, and the two men become bitter rivals. Things become even more complicated as the actors’ theatrical personae start to seep into their lives outside the theater.
In Othello
2003
Behind the camera
6.8A photographer invites her closest friends to vacation at her family's home in Goa in celebration of her upcoming marriage.
Angry Indian Goddesses
2015
5.1Chased out of their village, a poor farmer, his wife, son and daughter attempt to survive the harsh footpath life of Bombay, when a gangster asks him to work for him. Years later, the farmer is a mafia-like godfather with a crime network of his own, and a host of hoodlums out to kill him. Movie also shows the loves and lives of his children, now married.
Aatank Hi Aatank
1995
5.1Chased out of their village, a poor farmer, his wife, son and daughter attempt to survive the harsh footpath life of Bombay, when a gangster asks him to work for him. Years later, the farmer is a mafia-like godfather with a crime network of his own, and a host of hoodlums out to kill him. Movie also shows the loves and lives of his children, now married.
Aatank Hi Aatank
1995
NRA delightful, heart-warming romp through the lives of boys growing up at The Doon School, the ‘Eton’ of India; arguably India’s most famous boarding school whose alumni comprises of some highly distinguished, prominent achievers in Indian public life. Howly (to howl is to cry) is a lonely boy who comes of age while negotiating the rough and smooth of growing up in such a school, in the journey of friendship, loyalty, betrayal and the discovery of self-worth.
Dazed in Doon
2010