Manish Gupta is an Indian film director and writer in Bollywood. Manish has directed five (6) movies – One Friday Night (2023), 420 IPC (2021), Rahasya (2015), Hostel (2011), The Stoneman Murders (2009) and Darna Zaroori Hai (2006). And he has written the Screenplay and Dialogues for the movies Sarkar (2005) and Section 375 (2019) amongst many others.
Career
Manish started his career as a screenwriter. Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Sarkar was Manish's first film. Manish bagged several award nominations for the screenplay and dialogues of Sarkar.
Manish debuted as a director with Darna Zaroori Hai (2006) in which there were six different stories and a separate director for each story. Manish directed the main story titled ‘Grandma narrates stories to five children’.
Manish's next film as director was the critically acclaimed The Stoneman Murders (2009) starring Kay Kay Menon and Arbaaz Khan, based on the infamous Stoneman killings that shook Bombay in 1983.
After that, Manish directed Hostel (2011) about students’ deaths due to ragging (hazing) inside college hostels. Manish was felicitated for making this socially relevant film by the then President of India, Ms. Pratibha Patil.
Manish's next film as director was the critically acclaimed Rahasya (2015) based on the Aarushi Talwar murder case, starring Kay Kay Menon, Tisca Chopra and Ashish Vidyarthi. Rahasya had a long run of many weeks in theatres across India.
Manish's next film was the 2019 film Section 375, a courtroom drama about a fake rape case, which took Manish three years to research and script. For his script of Section 375, Manish was nominated for a Filmfare award under the Best Screenplay category at the 65th Filmfare Awards 2020.
Manish's latest release is the 2021 film 420 IPC, a courtroom drama about an economics offence. The film starring Vinay Pathak, Ranvir Shorey, Gul Panag and Rohan Vinod Mehra released on OTT platform ZEE5 to positive reviews and ranked as the 4th most viewed movie/series on Indian OTT platforms during the week of 13th Dec.-19th Dec. 2021.
Manish's next upcoming film is One Friday Night starring female superstar Raveena Tandon. The film's shooting is complete and the film is currently under post-production. The film is slated for a 2023 release.
Manish specializes in writing and directing suspense dramas and over the years has developed his unique genre wherein he takes details of a real case and weaves them into an intriguing suspense film.
