Atul Mongia

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Atul Mongia
Born
Atul Mongia

(1978-09-30) 30 September 1978 (age 43)
NationalityIndian
OccupationCasting Director, Acting Workshop Director, Filmmaker
Years active2000-present

Atul Mongia has been associated with Hindi cinema for a period spanning two decades, establishing himself as one of the industry's most acclaimed casting directors, with films like Queen, Lootera, Titli, LSD, Shanghai and Shor in the City, to his credit. His strength also lies in training actors and helping them deliver more truthful performances.

He has trained contemporary Indian actors like Anushka Sharma, Alia Bhatt, Ranveer Singh, Varun Dhawan, Saif Ali Khan, Deepak Dobriyal.[1][2]

Early life and career[]

Atul was the pioneer in starting acting workshops in Hindi films for the film LSD in 2009, and since then has done workshops for over 40 films, working with prominent film directors like Zoya Akhtar, Vishal Bhardwaj, Sharat Kataria, Navdeep Singh, Kanu Behl and Reema Kagti establishing workshops more as a norm than an exception in Hindi cinema.

Atul has been training 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. Since then he has come a long way, taking many public workshops for acting aspirants all over the country.

He is also a writer and a director having written over four feature length scripts and has directed four acclaimed, short independent films, the last one being produced by director/producer Vikramaditya Motwane. He's been an associate director on Ragini MMS, Titli (Cannes, 2014) and Lootera.[3]

Filmography[]

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 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 (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 (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

References[]

  1. ^ "The Actor in the Mind". The Indian Express. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Take One: Nushrat Bharucha, a model miss". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
  3. ^ "Radhika Madan: Pataakha team was confused about who should play the younger sister". India Today. Retrieved 9 November 2018.

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