National Award-winning filmmaker.
Mridul Toolsidass is a writer and filmmaker from Kolkata. His debut feature as writer-director, Missed Call, was officially selected at the Cannes Film Festival, 2007.
He was the writer and co-producer of Nachom-ia Kumpasar, which went on to win three National Awards including Best Konkani Film of the Year, 2014. He then wrote and directed Toolsidas Junior, produced by T-Series and Ashutosh Gowariker Productions and released on Netflix, which won two National Awards including Best Hindi Film of the Year, 2020.
In television, he was Associate Creative Director (AVP) in Content Engine Fiction at Star India’s Star Plus network from 2012 to 2015, show-running Yeh Hai Mohabbatein (Balaji Telefilms), Daffa 420 (Saregama) and the Revenge series (BBC Entertainment), and was dialogue writer on Everest for Ashutosh Gowariker Productions.
He began in the industry as an Associate Producer at Shah Rukh Khan’s Dreamz Unlimited and as Assistant Director to Rajkumar Hirani on Lage Raho Munna Bhai. He is also the co-founder of Reelies, India’s first microdrama app, and currently based in Mumbai.
Every film I’ve made is a biopic.
Three features, three true lives. Two won National Awards, one went to Cannes. The next one is a biopic too. Real people are the stories I’m built to tell.
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Background
Works in English, Hindi and Bengali.
