Atul Mongia

Atul Mongia
Atul Mongia
Born	30 September 1978 (age 45); Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Nationality	Indian
Occupation(s)	Creator, Writer, Acting Mentor, Producer, Director, Erstwhile Casting Director, Founder of The Artist Collective.
Years active	2000-present
Spouse	Reshmy Kurian 2010-present

Atul Mongia is a creator, writer, director, producer and acting mentor based in Mumbai. He was the showrunner, creator, head writer and co-director of the show MAI which was ranked #1 on Netflix for weeks in the Top Ten Show of India. He's associated with Hindi cinema for a period spanning two decades with films like Queen, Lootera, Titli (2014 film), Love Sex Aur Dhokha, Queen (2013 film), Shor in the City, Ragini MMS, Shanghai (2012 film), Qarib Qarib Singlle, Gully Boy and Gehraiyaan to his credit. His strength lies in training actors and helping the actors deliver more truthful performances. He has also established himself as one of the industry's most acclaimed erstwhile casting directors who introduced actors like Rajkummar Rao, Vikrant Massey, Radhika Apte, Nushrratt Bharuccha to Indian Cinema.

He has helped actors to get into their characters for various projects, the list includes contemporary Indian actors like Anushka Sharma, Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, Raj Kumar Rao, Bhumi Pednekar, Varun Dhawan, Saif Ali Khan, Kriti Sanon, Radhika Apte, Ananya Panday, Sakshi Tanwar, Dia Mirza, Sohum Shah, Raima Sen, Emraan Hashmi, Katrina Kaif, Sidharth Malhotra, Vamika, Arjun Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Deepika Padukone, Arjun Rampal, Ileana D'Cruz, Vicky Kaushal, Radhika Madan and Siddhant Chaturvedi.

Early life and career[edit]

Atul has been mentoring actors since 2000. At the age of 21, he taught acting at the accomplished Imago acting school in Delhi, founded by theatre veteran Barry John.

He moved to Mumbai in 2002. For the first few years, in addition to training actors, he shot four independent short films, the last one being produced by director and producer Vikramaditya Motwane. He's been an associate director on Lootera, Ragini MMS and Titli (Cannes, 2014).^[1]

In 2004, Atul met Dibakar Banerjee to train actors for his next film, Love Sex Aur Dhoka. Dibakar wanted to cast fresh faces for the film. That's when he asked Atul if he could also do the casting and his journey as a casting director started. Since then he has been a pioneer in conducting acting workshops in Hindi films with more than 50 films to his credit. He has worked with prominent film directors like Zoya Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Sharat Kataria, Navdeep Singh, Kanu Behl, Reema Kagti, Dibakar Banerjee, Shashanka Ghosh, Laxman Utekar, Honey Trehan, Anvita Dutt, Ashim Ahluwalia, Navdeep Singh, Maneesh Sharma, Raj & DK, Tanuja Chandra, Alankita Shrivastava, Aparna Sen, Ruchi Narain, Kunal Deshmukh, Sudhir Mishra, Vishal Bhardwaj, Aditya Dhar, Ajay Bahl, establishing workshops more as a norm than an exception in Hindi cinema. He has also conducted many public workshops for acting aspirants all over the country as one of the founders of The Artist Collective.

Filmography[edit]

Year	Film	Role	Notes
2003	Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi	Kashyap (Character)	Trivia - The character was inspired from Anurag Kashyap (Director).
2003	Chameli	Inspector Adsule (Character)
2005	Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow	Acting Workshop Director
2010	Love Sex aur Dhokha	Atul (Character)
2010	Love Sex aur Dhokha	Casting Director + Acting Workshop Director	Also Assistant Director
2010	Shor in the City	Casting Director
2011	Ragini MMS	Casting Director + Acting Workshop Director	Also Associate Director
2011	Someday...	Casting Director + Acting Workshop Director
2011	Ladies vs Ricky Bahl	Acting Workshops
2012	Ek Deewana Tha	Casting Director + Acting Workshops
2012	Shanghai	Casting Director + Acting Workshop Director
2013	David	Acting workshops
2013	Lootera	Casting Director + Acting Workshops	Also Associate Director
2014	Queen	Casting Director + Acting workshops
2014	Titli	Casting Director + Acting workshop Director	Also Associate Director
2014	Daawat-E-Ishq	Acting workshops
2014	Pizza (working title)	Acting workshops
2014	Detective Byomkesh Bakshy	Acting workshops
2014	NH10	Acting workshops
2014	Loveshhuda	Acting workshops
2015	One Night Stand (working title)	Acting workshops
2015	3 Storeys	Acting workshop Director
2015	Changez (working title)	Acting workshop Director
2015	Baar Baar Dekho	Acting workshop Director	Also choreographer for song
2015	A Death in the Gunj	Acting workshop Director
2016	Lipstick Under My Burkha	Acting workshop Director
2017	Gold	Acting workshop Director
2017	Pari	Acting workshop Director
2017	Pal Pal Dil Ke Paas	Acting workshop Director
2017	Loveyatri	Acting workshop Director
2018	Sui Dhaaga	Acting workshop Director
2018	Gully Boy	Acting workshop Director
2018	Kaptaan	Acting workshop Director
2018	Selection Day	Acting workshop Director
2018	Pataakha	Acting workshop Director
2018	Uri: The Surgical Strike	Acting workshop Director
2018	Moothon	Acting workshop Director
2022	Mai: A Mother's Rage	Showrunner, Creator, Head Writer and Co-director	Netflix

References[edit]

^ "Radhika Madan: Pataakha team was confused about who should play the younger sister". India Today. Retrieved 9 November 2018.

External links[edit]

Atul Mongia at IMDb

[1] "Radhika Madan: Pataakha team was confused about who should play the younger sister". India Today. Retrieved 9 November 2018.

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