User:Mantopashupatinath

Manto Pashupatinath is an Awarded Indian Film Director from Allahabad based in Mumbai. He debut Feature film "A DAUGHTER'S DREAM" touches a very sensitive subject- Girl Child. The Film has already earned laurels in 10 International Film festivals and has won the Best Director, Best story, Best Film Audience choice, Best Music, Best Male Singer award and Bharat Gaurav Samman. He has four International books at amazon.com by the name "Ashta Changa Po", "Manas Moksh","Kabhi Khayal ho Kabhi Jawab ho" and "Untold India". Manto was raised in Allahabad where he did his schooling and graduated from Allahabad University. Since a very young age his inclination towards art and theater was very evident as he used to write short stories and then perform a drama on the story, this passion of writing grew and by the time he was in his teens and he had decided to make a career in writing and films. Thus he came to Delhi to start his passion and love of writing, in Delhi he got involved with Doordarshan and his Banner got impaneled in the UNDP and he started writing and directing International films on general awareness and public issues.

Soon he realized that the real place for him is not Delhi where he was not getting enough opportunity to exhibit his skills and passion and thus he came and settled in Mumbai. In Mumbai he soon came in contact with noted Writer/Director Sagar Sarhadi and he joined his theatre group "THE CURTAIN"and worked with him for few years where he learnt the art of writing Dialogues and story telling from Sagar Sarhadi. After that he started as a film and TV writer but after a lot of struggle he finally started getting work and he got his first break in DD-1 serial "AAS EK DOR ki"which he wrote as a story/screenplay and Dialogue writer. Since then he had no looking back and he wrote many popular Tv Serials like "Jaane Pehchane Se Ajnabi" produced by Cinevista, "JIya Jale" and "Champs" produced by Big Synergy, "Humari Betiyun ka Vivah" produced by Cinevista, "Jo kahunga Sach Kahunga" and "Piya Ka angan "produced by Green Communication, "Yeh Ishq Haye" produced by Panglosean wnetertainment besides writing over a hundred Tv commercials. However his urge for writing a book still remained within him and finally he wrote his first book "Manas Moksh" which was published by amazon.com followed by "Untold India"also published by amazon.com , and . His latest Serial about the unknown India is directed by noted film maker and writer Saeed Mirza is under production and will be soon aired on DD-1.

He also made some short films like "Dark Senses Silence"  which is on youtube besides making music videos like "more Piya khwaza"  and "Mere Baba Mere Habib" . His latest three films "Night Has a Day", "Me & my World" and "Just Think" are sent to the various international festivals for 2013.

Manto is at present working on his second film which is a youth oriented film which shall go on floors in 2015.