Atul Mongia

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.

Atul Mongia
Born	Atul Mongia (1978-09-30) 30 September 1978
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Casting Director, Acting Workshop Director, Filmmaker
Years active	2000-present

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	Chuskit	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	Kirkit (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

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.

External links

• Atul Mongia on IMDb
• Open Magazine Article on Small Budget Films