Nagesh Kukunoor is a Bollywood filmmaker and actor. He is often described as a \"maverick\" as his movies do not follow the usual style of Indian films. He is known for making crossover movies and employing Hinglish.

He was born to Kusuma Sudershan and KS Naidu in Hyderabad in 1967. As a kid he loved watching Hindi and English films in the theatres of his neighbourhood, Narayanguda in Hyderabad. His parents sent him off to be schooled at Montfort Anglo-Indian School, Tamil Nadu, India where he got addicted to watching Hollywood films. After graduating from high school, he studied Chemical Engineering at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India and graduated with a Bachelor\'s degree. To pursue graduate studies, he moved to Atlanta in 1988 where he completed his Master\'s degree at Georgia Institute of Technology in Chemical Engineering.

After graduate school, Nagesh worked as an environmental consultant in Atlanta. He also attended workshops in film and televisio... more