# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shashank-khaitan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:23:37.631Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/shashank-khaitan"
name: "Shashank Khaitan"
slug: "shashank-khaitan"
description: "Shashank Khaitan is an Indian screenwriter, director, actor and producer who works in Hindi cinema. He is known for his association with Dharma Productions, having written and directed the Dulhania films, Humpty Sharma (2014) and Badrinath (2017), which starred Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt. Khaitan earned a Filmfare Award for Best Director nomination for the latter. He then wrote and directed the romantic drama Dhadak (2018), a remake of the 2016 Marathi-language film Sairat."
tagline: "Indian film writer, director and producer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Shashank_Khaitan_graces_Lokmat_Most_Stylish_Awards_2022.jpg/330px-Shashank_Khaitan_graces_Lokmat_Most_Stylish_Awards_2022.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.76
  momentum:             7.421948415986106
  historical:           8.267109333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4264671/"
    handle:    "nm4264671"
sources:
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    title: "شاشانك خايتان"
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    title: "ششانک کیتان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Shashank Khaitan"
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    title: "Shashank Khaitan"
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    title: "Shashank Khaitan"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Shashank Khaitan"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump