Personal Info
Birth date
1980-01-26 (45 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Writing
Place of birth
Sundernagar, Himachal Pradesh, India
Also known as
-Varun Grover
Biography
Varun Grover is an Indian stand-up comic, writer and poet. He won the award for Best Lyricist at the 63rd National Film Awards in 2015. He is also the co-creator of Aisi Taisi Democracy.
Filmography
Oye! It's Friday!
10
Overview:
Oye! It's Friday! was an Indian variety talk show on NDTV Imagine hosted by Farhan Akhtar. It featured a new celebrity every week. The show was made up of special performances by dancers and singers, jokes and light-hearted comedy.Sacred Games
7.786
Overview:
A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.Grahan
5.833
Overview:
It's 1984 - a tender love story succumbs to the anti-Sikh riots. It's 2016 - IPS officer Amrita Singh uncovers a secret connecting that past to her present.Dunki
6.208
Overview:
Four friends from a sleepy little village in Punjab share a common dream: to go to England. Their problem is that they have neither the visa nor the ticket. A soldier alights from a train one day, and their lives change. He gives them a soldier's promise: He will take them to the land of their dreams. What follows is a hilarious and heartwarming tale of a perilous journey through the desert and the sea, but most crucially through the hinterlands of their mind.Superboys of Malegaon
7.5
Overview:
The residents of Malegaon look to Bollywood cinema for a much-needed escape from daily drudgery. Amateur filmmaker Nasir Shaikh gets inspired to make a film for the people of Malegaon, by the people of Malegaon. He bands together his ragtag group of friends to bring his vision to life, thereby bringing a fresh lease of life into the town.Merry Christmas
6.7
Overview:
A Christmas Eve encounter between two enigmatic strangers sparks a poignant connection - but a dark turn of events threatens to expose their murky past.Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
7.073
Overview:
In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.Jigra
6.255
Overview:
When Ankur is wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death in a foreign country, his steely sister Satya is driven by a lethal resolve to break him free.Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2
7.755
Overview:
After the death of his father and brother Danish, Faizal Khan vows to take revenge by destroying Ramadhir Singh's gang.Samrat Prithviraj
6.769
Overview:
The true story of legendary Hindu warrior king "Prithviraj Chauhan" including his early military successes, love story with Sanyogita & clashes with Muhammad of Ghor, a ruler of the Ghurid dynasty who led the foundation of Muslim rule in the Indian subcontinent.Udta Punjab
7.212
Overview:
Drug abuse and the darker side of Punjab rear their heads in the intense, interwoven tales of a policeman, a doctor, a migrant worker, and a rockstar.Angry Young Men
8
Overview:
Angry Young Men is the story of Salim-Javed, legendary screenwriters of 1970s Hindi cinema. Together, they created the archetype of the Angry Young Man - a brooding anti-hero who captured the imagination of an entire nation with his rage, defiance, and quest for social justice. Like the character they created, Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, two outsiders to the Hindi film industry, defied all odds, questioning the position of writers and demanding recognition as much as the reigning stars of that time. Their break-up made headlines for many years and Indian cinema never saw a cultural collaboration as powerful again. This is a personal and candid account of their lives, their writing and their legacy.Sui Dhaaga - Made in India
7.151
Overview:
Mauji stays in a village near Delhi with his wife Mamta, father and mother. Varun works at a shop that sells sewing machines, owned by Bansal and his son Prashant. Both have a habit of ill-treating Mauji and make him do fun antics. When Prashant gets married, Bansal invites Mauji and his entire family. Mamta feels humiliated when she sees Mauji being asked to imitate a dog by the Bansals.All India Rank
6.4
Overview:
Vivek is 17, and as every middle-class family in India would attest, it is high time he was enrolled in coaching classes for the notoriously competitive entrance exams of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Vivek’s father, who sees an IIT degree as a moral certificate, ships his only son off to a residential preparatory school in Kota, the Mecca for IIT coaching. Over two years, Vivek goes through the motions of Indian adolescence, but it is his parents who do the growing up.Raman Raghav 2.0
7
Overview:
A corrupt cop and a serial killer obsessed with a psychopath from the '60s get caught up in a ruthless cat-and-mouse game.Newton
7.149
Overview:
A government clerk on election duty in a conflict-ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.Kapoor & Sons
7.006
Overview:
Returning home to visit their ill grandfather, two estranged brothers must confront their unresolved rivalry while their parents’ marriage frays.Masaan
7
Overview:
Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.Haseen Dillruba
6.814
Overview:
Under investigation as a suspect in her husband's murder, a wife reveals details of their thorny marriage that seem to only further blur the truth.Sonchiriya
8.2
Overview:
In the more or less lawless Chambal Valley in 1975, a gang of bandits led by Maan Singh are up to mischief. The lawless men, who call themselves Bhaagis (rebels), live by robbery and attack the villages in the area. Since they have previously committed a more than shameful crime, they are hunted mercilessly by the police. When Maan Singh learns about a treasure of gold that is about to change hands at a wedding reception, the target of their next heist is clear. They have no idea that it is an ambush of the police. Some of the gang members barely manage to escape and flee into the inhospitably barren surrounding area. While a dispute arises about how to proceed, they meet a woman from the lowest caste who is being hunted by a family clan. In their care there is a girl who was raped and seriously injured by the leader of that clan. The bandits see the opportunity to atone for their shameful crime.Qala
6.578
Overview:
Haunted by her past, a talented singer with a rising career copes with the pressure of success, a mother's disdain and the voices of doubt within her.Badhaai Do
6.882
Overview:
A gay cop and a lesbian teacher enter a sham marriage to pacify their families but find that relationships — both real and fake — aren't all that easy.Malaikottai Vaaliban
6.2
Overview:
Malaikottai Vaaliban, an uncontested warrior proves himself to be a reigning hero across time and geographies, defeating every opponent he encounters. As Vaaliban continues his victorious journey along with his aids Chinnappaiyyan & Ayyanar meets Rangapattinam Rangarani, an ethereal dancer at a betting parlour in Nooraanathalayur. This is the moment that also invites Chamathakan, a villainous presence who will shadow Vaaliban through the rest of his journey. This group then proceed on journey with many twists and turns that leads Vaaliban to his ultimate challenge.Monica, O My Darling
7.11
Overview:
A slick robotics expert joins a murderous plot after a passionate affair takes a sudden turn, but nothing — not even death — is what it seems to be.Acting
2025Comedy is Difficult as Varun Grover
2024Angry Young Men (1 Episode) as Self
2024Shaadi aur Election as Varun Grover
2024Langur as Varun Grover
2022Qala as Majrooh
2021Security Check as Varun Grover
2019Cows and Momos of India as Varun Grover
2018Varun Grover (10 Episodes) as Varun Grover
2016The Kapil Sharma Show (1 Episode) as Self
2015Bombay Velvet as Cameo Appearance
2015I Am Offended as Self
2014Son of Abish (1 Episode) as Himself
2013Gangs of Wasseypur - Making Uncut - The Roots of Revenge from Wasseypur as Self
Writing
TBABlind Spot ... Screenplay
TBAJC ... Lyricist
2025Homebound ... Screenplay
2025Superboys of Malegaon ... Writer, Dialogue
2024Jamoora ... Lyricist
2024Jigra ... Lyricist
2024All India Rank ... Screenplay, Lyricist
2024Malaikottai Vaaliban ... Lyricist
2024Merry Christmas ... Lyricist
2023Dunki ... Lyricist
2023Three of Us ... Dialogue
2023Four Slippers ... Screenplay
2022Qala ... Lyricist
2022Monica, O My Darling ... Lyricist
2022Chakki ... Lyricist
2022Samrat Prithviraj ... Lyricist
2022Kiss ... Writer
2022Badhaai Do ... Lyricist
2021Haseen Dillruba ... Lyricist
2021Grahan (8 Episodes) ... Lyricist
2021Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar ... Writer, Lyricist
2019Sonchiriya ... Lyricist
2018Sui Dhaaga - Made in India ... Lyricist
2018Sacred Games (4, 16 Episode) ... Writer, Adaptation
2018Kaala ... Lyricist
2017Newton ... Lyricist
2016Raman Raghav 2.0 ... Lyricist
2016Udta Punjab ... Lyricist
2016Fan ... Lyricist
2016Zubaan ... Lyricist
2015Masaan ... Story, Screenplay
2015Dum Laga Ke Haisha ... Lyricist
2014Ankhon Dekhi ... Lyricist
2013Prague ... Lyricist
2013Katiyabaaz ... Lyricist
2012Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2 ... Lyricist
2012Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1 ... Lyricist
2012Peddlers ... Lyricist
2011That Girl in Yellow Boots ... Lyricist
2009Accident On Hill Road ... Dialogue
2008Oye! It's Friday! (15 Episodes) ... Writer
200810 Ka Dum (53 Episodes) ... Writer
2004The Great Indian Comedy Show (1 Episode) ... Writer
Production
2025Superboys of Malegaon ... Executive Producer
2018Sacred Games (8 Episodes) ... Executive Producer
Crew
2016Kapoor & Sons ... Thanks