Apoorva Lakhia

Apoorva Lakhia is an Indian film director who works in Hindi films.

Early life Lakhia was born and brought up in Ahmedabad, India. He was educated at the Lawrence School, Sanawar. He dropped out of a filmmaking course in New York University to assist Mira Nair on The Perez Family. He had been an assistant on American films such as The Ice Storm, A Perfect Murder and Addicted to Love. recommended Apoorva, who had worked with casts and crews in Hollywood. He also worked as the second assistant director for the film Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1996). North American producer Vikas Kohli of Fatlabs studio collaborated with Mika Singh for the first time on the Mission Istaanbul soundtrack.

He has written the story of Hide & Seek (2009), which is directed Shawn Aranha. Lakhia wrote and directed all the movies from his debut to Mission Istanbul. He made his acting debut with a negative role in the 2010 film Knock Out starring Sanjay Dutt and Irrfan Khan.

In 2013, he directed a remake of the breakthrough film Zanjeer (1973) with Telugu actor Ram Charan; the film was funded by Aaditya Kulshreshtha. In 2017, he directed the film Haseena Parkar based on the life of Dawood Ibrahim's sister with Shraddha Kapoor and her real-life brother Siddhanth Kapoor in the lead roles.

Lakhia is also directing the upcoming war drama Maatrubhumi, starring Salman Khan as an Indian Army officer inspired by the real‑life Colonel B. Santosh Babu, with Chitrangda Singh in a leading role. The film, which is based on the 2020 Galwan Valley clash, began shooting in Ladakh in September 2025 and is targeting a mid‑2026 release, with many key action sequences completed and post‑production underway.

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