Dinesh Raheja

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Full Name	Dinesh Raheja
Occupation	Columnist
Date Of Birth	Mar 31, 1957(1957-03-31)
Age	67
Birthplace	Mumbai
Country	India
Horoscope	Pisces

Dinesh Raheja Biography

Dinesh Raheja is one of the most popular and richest Columnist who was born on March 31, 1957 in Mumbai, India. Dinesh Raheja (born March 31 1957) is an Indian writer journalist, columnist, television scriptwriter and film historian. Raheja writes about film for more than 30 years. In his lengthy and prolific writing career and editor, he was the editor of Movie magazine (1988-1999), the Channel Editor of India Today’s film online sections as well as the Editor of Bollywood News Service. He was a regular contributor to rediff.com along with Sunday’s Mid-day newspaper for more than 10 years and his writings have appeared on The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Hindustan Times, India Today and Outlook. Raheja is a dedicated film historian who has written five novels: The Hundred Luminaries of Hindi Cinema (1996), Indian Cinema, The Bollywood Saga (2004) Sahib Bibi Ghulam: The Original Screenplay (2012), Chaudhvin Ka Chand: The Original Screenplay (2014) and Kaagaz Ke Phool – The Original Screenplay (2015).

Rapidly rising through his ranks. He became the chief reporter of Cine Blitz when the company was shut down in September of 1988. Then, he was appointed an Editor for Movie Magazine at the tender old age of 31. He has conducted a series of analytical deep-dive interviews with many of the top stars of Bollywood’s Hindi film industry, such as Dilip Kumar Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan, Rajesh Khanna, Rishi Kapoor, Mithun Chakraborty, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Sunny Deol, Rekha, Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit, Dimple Kapadia, Ram Gopal Varma, Mahesh Bhatt, Mukul Anand and Subhash Ghai.

In 1996, after a cover story on The Hundred Luminaries Of Hindi Cinema, he was asked by Padmini Mirchandani of IBH, the publisher of Movie magazine, to give it the shape of a book. Amitabh Bachchan launched the book in Mumbai, and subsequently Rekha, Anil Kapoor and Sridevi launched it in other places.

For television, Raheja has written the concept for Tony And Deeya Singh’s Just Mohabbat and was one of the prominent writers on Ekta Kapoor’s Kasamh Se (2006). UTV asked him to write two seasons of the BBC show, Film India (hosted by Victor Banerjee).

After a half-hearted effort to pursue chartered accounting, Raheja embraced the true passion to his career in 1982 , and began a new profession in the field of film journalism. He began writing about films initially for the monthly magazine Cine Blitz, though this was preceded by a brief period as a reporter for The Daily newspaper.

Dinesh Raheja Net Worth

Dinesh Raheja is one of the richest Columnist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Dinesh Raheja 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Raheja was born into Raheja was born to a Sindhi commercial family from Mumbai. Raheja’s father Bhagwandas Raheja worked as a finance broker, and his mother Janki was a housewife. Raheja completed his studies at Palm Beach High School, Napean Sea Road, in December 1973, and graduated from HR College of Commerce in 1978. Born into a routine schedule of two films per week, he displayed an aptitude for the arts from a young age. He also, as reading started making articles on films in magazines like Filmfare, Star and Style and Cine Blitz. He frequently won small amounts of up to Rs 100 in competitions for the most prestigious letter for the Month. Interviews conducted with Hema Malini, and Zeenat Aman appeared in the press in response to his questions as an avid reader.

The couple is Anita who he first got to know in December 1982. Anita Raheja is a popular food columnist , and the author of two bestsellers entitled Simple Sumptuous Sindhi Cooking, and High Tea And Kitty Party Recipes. The couple has a child named Nikita Raheja, who is more well-known under the name Nikita Mohanty within the industry of film due to her role in the role of a stylist for costumes in films like English Vinglish, Two States, Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania and Kapoor & Sons.

Ayaz Memon, the editor of Mid-day in the mid ’90s, enthused Raheja to write a personalised column for the Sunday paper; and later, an analytical box-office think piece on a weekday. Raheja remained a columnist with Mid-day for an unbroken stint of 13 years (1996 to 2009).

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Dinesh Ranked on the list of most popular Columnist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Dinesh Raheja celebrates birthday on March 31 of every year.