Name	Satish Kaushik
Height
Naionality	Indian
Date of Birth	April 13, 1956
Place of Birth	Mohindergarh, Haryana
Famous for	Acting

Satish Kaushik is an Indian film director and actor in Hindi films and theatre. As a film actor his most remembered for his role as 'Calendar' in Mr. India, and as 'Chanu Ahmed' in Sarah Gavron's English film Brick Lane (2007). He also won Filmfare Best Comedian Award twice in 1990 for film Ram Lakhan and 1997 for Saajan Chale Sasural.

As theatre actor his most known role is that of 'Willy Loman' in Hindi play 'Salesman Ramlal, an adaptation of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.
As a dialogue writer he wrote dialogues for Kundan Shah's comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron (1983).

His film Teree Sang starring Ruslaan Mumtaz and Sheena Shahabadi is based on teen pregnancy.
His latest film Milenge Milenge, starring Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor once again which has been delayed a few times.

Satish Kaushik was born on April 13, 1956 in a village Dhanounda, district Mohindergarh, Haryana, He grew up in Delhi,Naiwala gali, Karolbagh. He did his graduation from Kirori Mal College, New Delhi (1972).

He graduated from National School of Drama (NSD), New Delhi in 1978 and later studied at Film and Television Institute of India Pune.

Satish Kaushik is now on the board of Asian Academy Of Film & Television. He has now become a famous producer, director, and an actor. He acts in many films as a comedian. He is mostly known for his role as Calender in Mr. India.

Satish Kaushik started his career as an assistant director to Shekhar Kapoor in film Masoom (1983), this was also his first film as an actor.

His first film as director Sridevi starrer Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja (1993) and his second, Prem (1995), which was supposed to be Tabu's launch film, both were box-office disasters, yet he continued his film making and finally got his first hit with Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain in 1999.

He was also well known for his role as 'Calendar' in the hit film Mr. India alongside Anil Kapoor and Sridevi. He co-wrote and anchored a TV countdown show, 'Philips Top Ten' for which he won the Screen Videocon Award.

In 2007, Anupam Kher, who was his batchmate at NSD, started a new film production company, along with Satish Kaushik, 'Karol Bagh Productions', and their first film, Teree Sang, is being directed by Satish Kaushik.

His next work is based on the life of Tansen, one of the Navaratnas in Akbar the Great's court. It is produced by Rajshri Productions. The role of Tansen will be played by Abhishek Bachchan and the soundtrack will be composed by Ravindra Jain. The scriptworks for the film are getting finished. Nowadays he is very serious to promote Haryana's film industry, for that he is making five films.

The Bollywood actor-director Satish Kaushik, a partner in the Chandigarh Film City project with Real estate company Parsavnath developers got 30-acre (120,000 m2) Film City in Sarangpur Village, Chandigarh at throw away prices,the real state company was forced to give this multi million project after foul play was exposed by media.