Tigmanshu Dhulia Bio - Biography

Name Tigmanshu Dhulia
Height
Naionality Indian
Date of Birth 3-July-1967
Place of Birth Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Famous for Acting
Tigmanshu Dhulia is an Indian film director, actor, screenwriter, and casting director. Dil Se.., for which he wrote the screenplay, was the first Hindi movie to chart in the UK top ten. He is well known for directing critical acclaimed films like Paan Singh Tomar and Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster.

In 1990 he moved to Mumbai where he worked as casting director on the film Bandit Queen, a biopic of Phoolan Devi. He was casting director for 1995's Stiff Upper Lips, in which he also had a cameo role as a stallholder, and 2000's The Warrior, directed by Asif Kapadia. He directed his first film, Haasil (released 2003), a love story set among politicized students in northern India. The film was critically well received and has gained a cult following. Haasil was nominated for six awards (including best directorial debut) at the Zee Cine Awards, where it won for best screenplay. His second film Charas: A Joint Operation was a thriller concerning drug cartels, shot in marijuana-growing regions of Himachal Pradesh.

In 2011, Tigmanshu has come up with two films - the first one being Shagird which released on 13 May and the second one was Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster. Dhulia's film Paan Singh Tomar released on 2 March 2012 and won him wide critical acclaim. He has announced four other upcoming projects, Saheb Biwi aur Gangster 2, Milan Talkies, Jai Ramji and Bullet Raja. Recently he has been honored with the life membership of International Film and Television Club of Asian Academy of Film & Television by Sandeep Marwah President Marwah Films & Video Studios.

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