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Tinnu Anand
Anand in 2011
Born	Virender Raj Anand (1945-10-12)12 October 1945 (age 80) Peshawar,North-West Frontier Province,British India (present-dayKhyber Pakhtunkhwa,Pakistan)
Alma mater	Mayo College
Occupations	Actor director writer producer
Notable work	Shahenshah Kaalia Nayakan Salaar: Part 1 - Ceasefire Anji (film)
Spouse	Shahnaz Anand
Children	2 (Isha Anand & Diksha Anand)
Father	Inder Raj Anand
Relatives	Siddharth Anand (nephew) Mukul Anand (cousin) Agha (father-in-Law) Jalal Agha (brother-in-law)

Tinu Anand (bornVirender Raj Anand) is an Indian actor, director, writer and producer inHindi cinema and a fewTelugu andTamil films.

He is the son of veteran screenwriterInder Raj Anand, brother of producer Bittu Anand, cousin of directorMukul Anand and uncle of directorSiddharth Anand.^[1] He did his schooling fromMayo College in India. He is married to Shahnaz, daughter of veteran actorAgha.

His father,Inder Raj Anand, was a well-known writer in the film industry, but he did not want Tinnu, or his younger brother Bittu, to enter this industry. In the words of Tinnu Anand: "..when I told him I wanted to direct films, he was very upset. Ultimately, though, he saw that I didn't want to do anything else. So he sent me to the best school – the Satyajit Ray School. Mr. Ray and my father were friends, so my father asked him to take me under his wing."

Tinnu had been given a role in K. Abbas' filmSaat Hindustani when.."In the evening, I was given the dirty job of offering Amitabh Rs.5000 for the entire film, whether it took a year or five.. Amitabh reluctantly agreed as he was desperate to act. He got the role of the poet's friend inSaat Hindustani. When my father got the letter from Satyajit Ray saying I could work with him, I had to give upSaat Hindustani. So I left for Calcutta and Amitabh got the role of the poet that I was supposed to play.

(on working with actors who consistently show up quite late and put in only a few hours) "I give all the credit to Veeru (Devgan) who taught me how to unlearn what I had learnt. He told me that if you have to survive in this industry with actors like these, you should learn how to shoot a film when the actor's not there!" and: "I felt very proud when I showed Amitabh a scene between him and Amjad Khan in a dubbing studio one day. He was shocked and said 'But I never shot with Amjad'".^[2]

Anand also worked as an assistant director toSatyajit Ray for five years, in Bengali films,Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1969),Aranyer Din Ratri (1970),Pratidwandi (1970),Seemabaddha (1971) toAshani Sanket (1973).^[3]

Anand portrayed an important role inGhajini in 2008.^[4][5] In an interview, Tinu Anand spoke about his early days and also praised Amitabh Bachchan for his generosity.^[6]

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