Tigmanshu Dhulia

{{Infobox person

| name = Tigmanshu Dhulia

| image = Photo Of Tigmanshu Dhulia From The DVD launch of 'Paan Singh Tomar'.jpg

| image_caption = Dhulia in 2012

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1967|7|3}}

| birth_place = Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

| occupation = Film director, film producer, screenwriter, actor

| yearsactive = 1991–present

| relatives =Sudhanshu Dhulia (Brother)

}}

Tigmanshu Dhulia (born 3 July 1967) is an Indian film dialogue writer, director, actor, screenwriter, producer and casting director known for his works in Hindi cinema and Television.{{cite web|url=http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/article.aspx?cp-documentid=250544455|title=Entertainment - MSN India: Bollywood news - Movies Photos - TV Updates|access-date=30 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203060219/http://entertainment.in.msn.com/bollywood/article.aspx?cp-documentid=250544455|archive-date=3 December 2013|url-status=dead}} He wrote the dialogue for the 1998 film Dil Se.., the first Bollywood film to chart in the UK top ten, and screened at the Berlin International Film Festival.{{cite web|url=http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=102797§ion=review|title=Programmes - Error - Channel 4|access-date=30 December 2014|archive-date=30 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230095708/http://www.channel4.com/film/reviews/film.jsp?id=102797§ion=review|url-status=live}} His directing career has also garnered international recognition with the biographical film, Paan Singh Tomar premiered at the 2010 BFI London Film Festival.{{cite web |author=Businessofcinema.Com Team |url=http://www.businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=16989 |title=UTV's Paan Singh Tomar & Udaan to be showcased at BFI London Film Fest |publisher=Businessofcinema.com |access-date=12 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111020200230/http://businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=16989 |archive-date=20 October 2011 |df=dmy-all }}{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Paan-Singh-gets-thumbs-up-from-critics/Article1-819771.aspx|title=Paan Singh... gets thumbs up from critics|author=Hindustan Times|work=hindustantimes.com/|access-date=30 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230095832/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Paan-Singh-gets-thumbs-up-from-critics/Article1-819771.aspx|archive-date=30 December 2014|df=dmy-all}} and the thriller drama Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster.{{cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/criticreview/id/542453|title=Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster|website=Bollywood Hungama |access-date=30 December 2014|archive-date=30 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230101827/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/criticreview/id/542453|url-status=dead}}

Paan Singh Tomar eventually went on to win the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in 2012.{{Cite web |url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf |title=Untitled Page |access-date=18 March 2013 |archive-date=17 April 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130417215938/http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf |url-status=live }} Similarly, his sequel film Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns had gained critical acclaim.{{cite web|url=http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/criticreview/id/550332|title=Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns|website=Bollywood Hungama |access-date=30 December 2014|archive-date=30 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230101825/http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/moviemicro/criticreview/id/550332|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-saheb-biwi-aur-gangster-returns-in-style/20130308.htm|title=Review: Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns in grand style|date=8 March 2013|work=Rediff|access-date=30 December 2014|archive-date=30 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230100321/http://www.rediff.com/movies/review/review-saheb-biwi-aur-gangster-returns-in-style/20130308.htm|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Critics-review-Saheb-Biwi-Aur-Gangster-Returns-will-overwhelm-you/Article1-1023103.aspx|title=Critics' review: Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns will overwhelm you|author=Hindustan Times|work=hindustantimes.com/|access-date=30 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230110005/http://www.hindustantimes.com/Entertainment/Bollywood/Critics-review-Saheb-Biwi-Aur-Gangster-Returns-will-overwhelm-you/Article1-1023103.aspx|archive-date=30 December 2014|df=dmy-all}} He is also well known for his role as Ramadhir Singh in Anurag Kashyap's modern cult film Gangs of Wasseypur.{{cite web|url=http://kafila.org/2012/09/17/the-unreality-of-wasseypur-javed-iqbal/|title=The Unreality of Wasseypur: Javed Iqbal|work=Kafila|access-date=30 December 2014|archive-date=30 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230100002/http://kafila.org/2012/09/17/the-unreality-of-wasseypur-javed-iqbal/|url-status=live}} Dhulia holds a master's degree in Theatre from the National School of Drama.{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main52.asp?filename=hub240312They.asp|title=Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine|access-date=17 March 2012|archive-date=10 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510221214/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main52.asp?filename=hub240312They.asp|url-status=live}}

Early life and education

Dhulia was born and raised in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India,{{cite web | url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Irrfan-is-intense-irritating-and-never-satisfied-Tigmanshu-Dhulia/articleshow/26474678.cms?intenttarget=no | title=Irrfan is intense, irritating and never satisfied: Tigmanshu Dhulia | work=The Times of India | date=28 November 2013 | access-date=2 March 2014 | archive-date=2 December 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202231201/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Irrfan-is-intense-irritating-and-never-satisfied-Tigmanshu-Dhulia/articleshow/26474678.cms?intenttarget=no | url-status=live }} where his father was a judge at the Allahabad High Court, while his mother was a professor of Sanskrit. He is the youngest of three brothers, one of whom later joined the Navy, while the other is a judge at the Supreme Court of India. He attended St Joseph's College, Allahabad, then Allahabad University where he majored in English, Economics and Modern History. After graduating in 1986 he took a master's degree in Theatre at the National School of Drama in New Delhi, completing the course in 1989.{{cite web|url=http://www.tehelka.com/story_main52.asp?filename=hub240312They.asp|title=Tehelka - India's Independent Weekly News Magazine|access-date=17 March 2012|archive-date=10 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510221214/http://www.tehelka.com/story_main52.asp?filename=hub240312They.asp|url-status=live}} His brother Sudhanshu Dhulia is a judge of the Supreme Court of India.{{Cite web|date=2022-08-09 |title=Know Thy Judge {{!}} Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia |url=https://www.scconline.com/blog/post/2022/08/09/know-thy-judge-justice-sudhanshu-dhulia-supreme-court-legal-updates-research-news/ |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=SCC Blog |language=en-US}}

Career

In 1990 he moved to Mumbai where he worked as casting director on the film Bandit Queen, a Phoolan Devi biopic. He was casting director for 1995's Stiff Upper Lips, in which he also had a cameo role as a stallholder,[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120210/fullcredits Stiff Upper Lips full cast and crew] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604231917/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120210/fullcredits |date=4 June 2016 }} at [http://www.imdb.org IMDB] and 2000's The Warrior, directed by Asif Kapadia. Dhulia started his career by assisting Pradip Krishen in Electric Moon (1992) and Ketan Mehta in Sardar (1993). Thereafter he turned to television, and during the 90s Dhulia directed and produced several television programs, including the six-part Krishna's Dream for UK Channel Four.[http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/may/16dhulia.htm "Nobody is a star today"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011173310/http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/may/16dhulia.htm |date=11 October 2008 }}, interview with Tigmanshu Dhulia,Rediff, 16 May 2003 Kahani Ek Kanya Ki (1991) was written for Doordarshan, and Hum Bambai Nahin Jayenge (1993), for BI Television, was set in an acting school. 1996's Just Mohabbat was the story of a boy's coming-of-age, and Naya Daur (1995) adapted a classic Hindi novel by Bhagwati Charan Verma for Zee TV.{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}}

Dhulia's 1999 series Star Bestsellers, a sequence of six 45-minute short stories ("Ek Sham Ki Mulaqat", "Fursat Main", "Hum Saath Saath Hain Kya", "Anekon Hitler", "Musafir", and "Bhawaron Ne Khilaya Phool"), won him popular recognition. His 2005 comedy Who Dus Din, for Star TV, satirised the Indian film industry, while Ek Duje Ke Liye, produced the same year and also for Star TV, was an adaptation of Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple. He also directed the TV serial 'Rajdhaani' for Starplus featuring Neha Dhupia.

He directed his first feature film, Haasil in 2003, a love story set among politicised 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.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362696/awards Awards for Haasil] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108010656/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362696/awards |date=8 January 2017 }} at [http://www.imdb.org IMDB] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604231917/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120210/fullcredits |date=4 June 2016 }} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.sahibbiwiaurgangster.com/|title=Sahibbiwiaurgangster.com|access-date=30 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230100343/http://www.sahibbiwiaurgangster.com/|archive-date=30 December 2014|url-status=usurped}}

Dhulia's film Paan Singh Tomar released on 2 March 2012 and won him wide critical acclaim including National Film Award for Best Feature Film. He has announced four other upcoming projects, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns (2013), Milan Talkies, Jai Ramji, Bullett Raja, and Sultana Daku.{{cite web |url= http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/fullstory.php?id=14948533 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20120715205430/http://sify.com/movies/bollywood/fullstory.php?id=14948533 |url-status= dead |archive-date= 15 July 2012 |title= Tigmanshu Dhulia moves on from Paan Singh Tomaar|date= 7 July 2010 |website= Sify|access-date=25 July 2010}}

Recently he has been honoured with the life membership of International Film And Television Club of Asian Academy of Film & Television by Sandeep Marwah President Marwah Films & Video Studios.

Tigmanshu had also started production and directing a film titled "Showman" starring Govinda. He was a big fan of Govinda and dreamed of directing a film on him.{{citation needed|date=March 2020}} The film has been abandoned.

Filmography

=Films=

class="wikitable sortable"

! Year

! Film

! Director

! Actor

! Producer

! Screenwriter

! Casting director

1992

|Electric Moon

|{{Yes}}

1994

|Bandit Queen

| {{Yes}}

1995

|Bombay Blues

| {{Yes}}

1996

|Tere Mere Sapne

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |1998

|Stiff Upper Lips

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |1998

|Dil Se..

| {{Yes}}

2002

|Bas Itna Sa Khwaab Hai

| {{Yes}}

2003

|Haasil

| {{Yes}}

2004

|Charas

| {{Yes}}

2005

|Family: Ties of Blood

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2011

|Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2011

|Shagird

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2012

|Paan Singh Tomar

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2012

|Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2012

|Gangs of Wasseypur

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2013

|Bullett Raja

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2013

|Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2013

|Shahid

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2015

|Hero

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2015

|Manjhi - The Mountain Man

| {{Yes}}

2017

|Raag Desh

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2018

|Zero

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2018

|Baarish Aur Chowmein

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2018

|Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster 3

| {{Yes}}

2019

|Milan Talkies

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2020

|Raat Akeli Hai

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2020

|Yaara

| {{Yes}}

rowspan="1" |2022

|Holy Cow

| {{Yes}}

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable "

!Year

!Title

!Creator

!Director

!Writer

!Producer

!Notes

style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2| 1993

| Krishna's Dream

| {{yes}}

| Episode: {{no wrap|"Kahani Ek Kanya Ki"}}

Hum Bambai Nahin Jayenge

| {{yes}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1995

| Naya Daur

| {{yes}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1999-2000

| Star Bestsellers

| {{yes}}

| {{no wrap|6 episodes}}{{efn|"Ek Shaam Ki Mulakaat"
"Bhoron Ne Khilaya Phool"
"Anekoe Hitlers"
"Fursat Mein"
"Hum Saath Saath Hain Kya?"
"Musafir"}}

style="text-align:center;" | 1999

| Rajdhani

| {{yes}}

style="text-align:center;" | 2005

| Woh Dus Din

| {{yes}}

style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2| 2019

| Criminal Justice

| {{yes}}

| Co-directed with Vishal Furia

Out of Love

| {{yes}}

style="text-align:center;" | 2022

| The Great Indian Murder

| {{yes}}

style="text-align:center;" | 2023

| Garmi

| {{yes}}

Acting credits

class="wikitable sortable "

!Year

!Title

!Role

!Notes

style="text-align:center;" | 1991

| Krishna's Dream

| {{unknown}}

| Episode: {{no wrap|"Kahani Ek Kanya Ki"}}

style="text-align:center;" | 2014

| Yudh

| Minister

style="text-align:center;"| 2018;
2025

|CID

| Barbosa

style="text-align:center;" |2018

|Rangbaaz

|Ramshankar Tiwari

style="text-align:center;" | 2019

| Fixerr

| Yashpal Sahrawat

style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2| 2021

| Tandav

| PM Devki Nandan Singh

Call My Agent: Bollywood

| Himself

| Episode: "In Loving Memory"

style="text-align:center;" rowspan=2| 2023

| Kaalkoot

| Mani Shankar Tripathi

Commando

|Bakshi

Awards

;National Film Awards

National Film Award for Best Feature Film – Paan Singh Tomar – Director – 2013{{cite press release|title=60th National Film Awards Announced|url=http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf|publisher=Press Information Bureau (PIB), India|access-date=18 March 2013|archive-date=17 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130417215938/http://pib.nic.in/archieve/others/2013/mar/d2013031801.pdf|url-status=live}}

;Filmfare Awards