Kabir Akhtar

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kabir Akhtar
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Jan 11, 1975(1975-01-11)
Age	49
Birthplace	Charlottesville
Country	United States
Birth City	Virginia
Horoscope	Capricorn

Kabir Akhtar Biography

Kabir Akhtar is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on January 11, 1975 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. Akhtar later directed the opening film for 53rd Primetime Emmy Awards starring Jane Lynch and Leonard Nimoy, and directed part from the 85th Academy Awards, starring host Billy Crystal and Melissa McCarthy in a highly-received program. He produced the films that opened both shows as well as was nominated to win the Emmy to edit an opening segment for the Oscars opening.

Akhtar was also among the first to adopt online video technology, allowing music videos streaming on the site as early the year 1996. This was nine years prior to the launch of YouTube.

Akhtar posted an April Fools’ Day prank to The Tool Page every year from 1997 to 2009, and again in 2011. Although he gained a reputation for writing a fake post annually, some of his posts were picked up by the media and believed as true.

On April 1, 2005, Keenan emailed Akhtar to ask for his collaboration with a prank to be announced on Tool’s official website. Tool announced that “Maynard has found Jesus” and that he would be abandoning the recording of the next Tool album possibly permanently. Hours later, Akhtar posted a letter to his site from Keenan, stating that the announcement was true. MTV News picked up the story, reporting that because both Tool’s and Akhtar’s websites had the same news, they were unsure whether it was real or not. Kurt Loder of MTV contacted Keenan to ask for a confirmation and received a nonchalant confirmation. Brian Welch (formerly of the band Korn), who made the same news some months earlier, was delighted. However, on April 6 Akhtar explained that it had just been a prank; Tool’s site followed suit on April 7.

Akhtar has also been the founder and creator of the Tool Page [1The Tool Page is the first website that focuses on Tool. Tool. The site was operated by him (also called “toolshed”) from 1994 until 2016, and it was pre-dated by a number of popular websites which included the mainstays Google, YouTube, and Yahoo!. Akhtar was a pioneer on the internet and earned some fame as the creator of many April Fools’ Day jokes.

Kabir Akhtar Net Worth

Kabir Akhtar is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kabir Akhtar 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kabir Akhtar (born on the 11th of January, 1975) is an American television editor and director who was awarded the Emmy Award in 2016. He has worked on Arrested Development, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, New Girl, Behind the Music, and the Academy Awards.

in 1994 Akhtar began work on an official website for the group Tool. One of the goals was the creation of the Tool FAQ, a document which is often used as a source of details about the band. But, since there was not much information regarding the band in the pre-era of the widespread Internet use and the internet, there were a number of insufficient sections in the initial version of the document. In the early part of 1995 Akhtar started interacting online via the band’s vocalist, Maynard James Keenan. Keenan gave him unpublished lyrics of the entire catalog, and also filled the gaps in the FAQ. Soon after, the website was named “The Tool Page,” and started tracking Tool announcements.

April 1, 1997, saw the first of several April Fools’ Day pranks related to the band, created by Akhtar. That day, he wrote that “at least three of the band are listed in critical condition” after a tour bus accident on a highway.

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Akhtar transitioned to episodic directing in 2008, directing three episodes of the British comedy series Mumbai Calling. The series, which was shot entirely in India, aired in 2009 on ITV1 in England and HBO internationally.

Facts & Trivia

Kabir Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Kabir Akhtar celebrates birthday on January 11 of every year.

On May 2, 2016, Akhtar announced that the site would no longer be updated but would remain available indefinitely as a resource for fans. The site was actively maintained for nearly twenty years.

Is Kabir Akhtar Indian?

Kabir Akhtar, one of the director of this series, is of Indian origin. “I was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, but grew up outside Philadelphia from the age of four. I famously celebrated my fourth birthday in Mumbai with my cousin Farhan (Akhtar), as he had turned five the same week.

Is Kabir Akhtar related to Farhan Akhtar?

He is the son of noted psychiatrist Salman Akhtar, is the nephew of award- winning Bollywood lyricist Javed Akhtar and of actress Shabana Azmi, and is the first cousin of film directors Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar.