Farhad Samji

Farhad Samji (born 5 May 1974) is an Indian writer, singer, lyricist, actor, music and film director who works in Hindi cinema. He is known for directing Housefull 4, Bachchhan Paandey, and Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan independently. He has also made special appearances in films like Baaghi 3 and Coolie No. 1.^[1] He is famous for his works with his brother, Sajid Samji. The duo together is known as Sajid - Farhad and are known for directing films like Entertainment and Housefull 3.

Farhad Samji
Born	5 May 1974 (1974-05-05) (age 51) Mumbai, India
Occupations	Film director writer lyricist actor singer music director
Years active	1987–present
Spouse	married
Children	2
Relatives	Sajid Samji (brother)

Career

Farhad started his career with his brother in 2002 as lyricists. They started writing dialogues for movies, starting with Shiva in 2006, and followed by numerous collaborations as writers for the Golmaal series, Sunday, Himmatwala, Bol Bachchan, and Singham series, with their last collaboration being Simmba in 2018. In 2019, apart from writing dialogues for Punjabi film Singham, he directed web series Booo Sabki Phategi and the action comedy movie Housefull 4 (starring Akshay Kumar and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, which became the highest grossing film of the Housefull franchise generating ₹280 crores of revenue at the box office,^[2] despite critically negative reviews.^[3]

Samji continued to write dialogues for the 2020 films Street Dancer 3D, Baaghi 3 and Coolie No. 1. He released his next directorial, the Akshay Kumar and Kriti Sanon 2021 starrer Bachchan Pandey, in March 2022, whose shooting took place from January to March 2021.^[4] Samji also made the social family comedy Kisi ka Bhai Kisi ki Jaan starring Salman Khan and Pooja Hegde, which released in 2023.^[5]

Filmography

As director

Year	Film	Notes	Ref.
2014	Entertainment	Directed with Sajid
2016	Housefull 3	Directed with Sajid
2018	Baby Come Naa	Web series
2019	Booo Sabki Phategi	Web series
	Housefull 4	Director and Writer
2022	Bachchhan Paandey	Remake of Jigarthanda
2023	Pop Kaun?	Web Series
	Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan	Remake of Veeram; co-written with Sparsh Khetarpal, Tasha Bhambra	[6]

As writer

Year	Film	Notes
2011	Singham	Dialogues
2020	Baaghi 3	Screenplay & Dialogues
	Street Dancer 3D	Dialogues
	Laxmii	Adapted Screenplay & Dialogues
	Coolie No. 1	Dialogues
2021	Sooryavanshi	Dialogues
2022	Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2	Dialogues
	Bachchhan Pandey	Dialogues
2025	Housefull 5	Dialogues, co-wrote with Tarun Mansukhani

As actor

Year	Film	Role
2020	Baaghi 3	a man in gents toilet
2023	Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan	the Photographer in a wedding

Year	Web Series	Role
2023	Pop Kaun?	Balwan Trivedi

As lyricist

Year	Film	Song	Notes
2019	Prassthanam	"Prassthanam Title Track"	Also music director
2020	Laxmii	"Mata Ka Jagrata"	also singer
	Coolie No. 1	"Coolie No. 1 Title Track"

As singer

Year	Film	Song	Notes
2019	Housefull 4	"The Bhoot Song"	also co-music director
2020	Laxmii	"Mata Ka Jagrata"	also lyricist
2023	Pop Kaun?	"All Songs"	also lyricist

As music composer

Year	Film	Song	Notes
2019	Housefull 4	"The Bhoot Song"	composer along with Sandeep Shirodkar; also singer along with Mika Singh and lyricist
2019	Prassthanam	"Prassthanam Title Track"	Also lyricist
2023	Pop Kaun?	"All Songs"	Also lyricist

Works with Sajid

As lyricist

Year	Film	Songs
2002	Hum Kisise Kum Nahin
	Chor Machaaye Shor
2006	Keerthi Chakra	Khuda Se Mannat
2008	Sunday
	God Tussi Great Ho
2012	Bol Bachchan	Bol Bachchan
2016	Housefull 3

As writer

Year	Film	Director	Notes
2006	Shiva	Ram Gopal Varma	dialogues
2007	Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag
2008	Sunday	Rohit Shetty	Screenplay, dialogues
	Golmaal Returns		dialogues
2009	All the Best: Fun Begins
2010	Golmaal 3
2011	Ready	Anees Bazmee
	Double Dhamaal	Indra Kumar
	Singham	Rohit Shetty
2012	Housefull 2	Sajid Khan
	Bol Bachchan	Rohit Shetty
2013	Himmatwala	Sajid Khan
	Chashme Baddoor	David Dhawan
	Policegiri	K.S. Ravikumar
	Chennai Express	Rohit Shetty
	Boss	Anthony D'Souza
2014	Entertainment	Sajid-Farhad	Screenplay, dialogues
	Singham Returns	Rohit Shetty	dialogues
2015	Dilwale
2016	Housefull 3	Sajid-Farhad	screenplay, dialogues
2017	Judwaa 2	David Dhawan	dialogues
	Golmaal Again	Rohit Shetty
2018	Simmba		Additional screenplay written by Sajid samji while dialogues were written by Farhad samji.

Awards and nominations

• Nominated for Producers Guild Film Awards for Writing Dialogue for the movie Singham (2019 film)^[7]