K. K. Singh
Portrait of K. K. Singh
Died	2011 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter Actor Film director Film producer
Years active	1982-2011
Notable work	Krantiveer Veergati Sham Ghansham
Awards	Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue Filmfare Award for Best Story^[1]

K. K. Singh^[2] (died 2011) was an Indian screenwriter and has film director-producer credits for Veergati and actor credits for Sham Ghansham. Singh had written scripts primarily for Bollywood films and has worked in a regional-language Bhojpuri film "Aulaad" directed by Aslam Sheikh. He debuted in Hindi-language films in 1982, with Raj Kapoor's film Prem Rog as an assistant director, and was honoured with several awards including Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue and Filmfare Award for Best Story writer.^[3]^[4]

Life and background

Singh was initially working in Hindi cinema as an additional dialogue writer. His first film as a writer and assistant director was Raj Kapoor's Prem Rog. After making his debut in Bollywood, he then worked in Veergati as a producer and director, starring Salman Khan. It was 1998 when he worked as an actor in Sham Ghansham film director by Ashok Ghai.^[5]^[6]

Awards

He has written over 25 films including Raj Kapoor's last film Ram Teri Ganga Maili. Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue and Filmfare Award for Best Story were conferred to him during 40th Filmfare Awards held in 1995 for the film Krantiveer.^[7]^[1]^[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1982	Prem Rog	Asst. director^[9]
1984	Insaaf Kaun Karega	Dialogue
1985	Ram Teri Ganga Maili	Dialogue/Screenplay
1987	Sansar	Dialogue
1988	Paap Ko Jalaa Kar Raakh Kar Doonga	Dialogue
1989	Tridev	Dialogue
1989	Jurrat	Screenwriter
1993	Gurudev	Dalogue
1994	Teesra Kaun	Screenwriter
1994	Krantiveer	Screenwriter
1996	Veergati	Producer/Director
1998	Sham Ghansham	Actor
1999	Silsila Hai Pyar Ka	Dialogue
1999	Jaanwar	Dialogue
2000	Kurukshetra	Dialogue
2001	Ek Rishtaa: The Bond of Love	Screenwriter
2002	Pitaah	Dialogue
2002	Jaani Dushman: Ek Anokhi Kahani	Dialogue
2003	Talaash: The Hunt Begins	Screenwriter
2004	Jaago	Dialogue/screenplay/story
2005	Barsaat: A Sublime Love Story	Dialogue
2005	Dosti: Friends Forever	Screenplay
2006	Mere Jeevan Saathi	Dialogue^[10]
2011	Aulaad	Screenwriter

References

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Filmfare Award for Best Story

Filmfare Award for Best Story
1955–1970	Mukhram Sharma (1955) Rajinder Singh Bedi (1956) Amiya Chakrabarty (1957) Akhtar Mirza (1958) Mukhram Sharma (1959) Subodh Ghosh (1960) Ruby Sen (1961) C. V. Sridhar (1962) K. P. Kottarakara (1963) Jarasandha (1964) Ban Bhatt (1965) Akhtar Mirza (1966) R. K. Narayan (1967) Manoj Kumar (1968) Sachin Bhowmick (1969) Vasant Shankar Kanetkar (1970)
1971–1990	Chandrakant Kakodkar (1971) Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1972) Basu Bhattacharya (1973) Salim–Javed (1974) Kaifi Azmi, Ismat Chughtai (1975) Salim–Javed (1976) Balaichand Mukherjee (1977) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1978) Dinesh Thakur (1979) Shanker Shesh (1980) Vijay Tendulkar (1981) Chetan Anand (1982) Samaresh Basu (1983) S. D. Palwalker (1984) Mahesh Bhatt (1985) Aleem Masroor (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Subodh Ghosh (1989) K. Viswanath (1990)
1991–2010	Rajkumar Santoshi (1991 ) Honey Irani (1992) no award given (1993) Sutanu Gupta (1994) K. K. Singh (1995) Ram Gopal Varma (1996) Gulzar (1997) Kamal Haasan (1998) Mahesh Bhatt (1999) Vinay Shukla (2000) Honey Irani (2001) Ashutosh Gowariker (2002) Jaideep Sahni (2003) Nagesh Kukunoor (2004) Aditya Chopra (2005) Sudhir Mishra, Ruchi Narain & Shiv Kumar Subramaniam (2006 ) Rajkumar Hirani & Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2007) Amole Gupte (2008) Abhishek Kapoor (2009) Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2010)
2011–present	Anurag Kashyap & Vikramaditya Motwane (2011) Sanjay Chauhan (2012) Juhi Chaturvedi (2013) Subhash Kapoor (2014) Rajat Kapoor (2015) V. Vijayendra Prasad (2016) Shakun Batra (2017) Amit V. Masurkar (2018) Anubhav Sinha (2019) Anubhav Sinha & Gaurav Solanki (2020) Anubhav Sinha & Mrunmayee Lagoo Waikul (2021)

Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue

Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue
1959–1970	Rajinder Singh Bedi (1959) Ramanand Sagar (1960) Amanullah Khan, Kamal Amrohi, Wajahat Mirza & Ehsan Rizvi (1961) Wajahat Mirza (1962) Akhtar ul Iman (1963) Arjun Dev Rashk (1964) Govind Moonis (1965) Akhtar ul Iman (1966) Vijay Anand (1967) Manoj Kumar (1968) Ali Raza (1969) Pt Anand Kumar (1970)
1971–1990	Rajinder Singh Bedi (1971) Gulzar (1972) Ramesh Pant (1973) Gulzar (1974) Kaifi Azmi (1975) Salim-Javed (1976) Sagar Sarhadi (1977) Vrajendra Gaur (1978) Rahi Masoom Raza (1979) Satyadev Dubey (1980) Shabd Kumar (1981) Kader Khan (1982) Dr. Achla Nagar (1983) Mahesh Bhatt (1984) Sai Paranjpye (1985) Rahi Masoom Raza (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Kamlesh Pandey (1989) Javed Akhtar (1990)
1991–2010	Suraj Sanim (1991 ) Rahi Masoom Raza (1992) Kader Khan (1993) Prof Jay Dixit (1994) K K Singh (1995) Aditya Chopra & Javed Siddiqui (1996) Gulzar (1997) Aditya Chopra (1998) Rajkumar Santoshi & K. K. Raina (1999) Hriday Lani & Pathik Vats (2000) O. P. Dutta (2001) Karan Johar (2002) Gulzar & Jaideep Sahni (2003) Abbas Tyrewala (2004) Aditya Chopra (2005) Prakash Jha (2006) Rajkumar Hirani & Abhijat Joshi (2007) Imtiaz Ali (2008) Manu Rishi (2009) Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi (2010)
2011–present	Habib Faisal (2011) Farhan Akhtar (2012) Anurag Kashyap, Zeishan Quadri, Akhilesh Jaiswal & Sachin Ladia (2013) Subhash Kapoor (2014) Abhijat Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani (2015) Himanshu Sharma (2016) Ritesh Shah (2017) Hitesh Kewaliya (2018) Akshat Ghildial (2019) Vijay Maurya (2020) Juhi Chaturvedi (2021)