Manjul Sinha is an Indian television director. Sinha always wanted to be a director, having grown up in a prominent family who had keen interest in films, having a cinema hall at

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, film distribution and interests in

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films. After passing high school from sainik school tilaiya and later graduating from the

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in 1977 Manjul Sinha came to Bombay in pursuit of a career in direction. After directing many small television advertisements, his first major break was with ''

Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi ''Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi'' (literal meaning: 'Such is Life') is a sitcom that aired on DD National in 1984. It was written by comedy writer Sharad Joshi and directed by Kundan Shah, S. S. Oberoi and ''Raman Kumar''. Plot The episodes revolved arou ...

'', which was among the first sitcoms on Indian television. At that time Indian television viewership was seeing a new dawn, colour television having just arrived, and ''Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi'' became very popular: cinema halls ran empty during the half-hour show on Friday night. More recently Sinha has been involved in making ''

Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan ''Yeh Hai Mumbai Meri Jaan'' () is a 1999 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Mahesh Bhatt and produced by Mukesh Bhatt, starring Saif Ali Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Akshay Anand and Chunky Pandey. The film was flop at the box office. Plot ''Y ...

'', another television serial. He has mentored many upcoming film makers, writers and actor notable amongst them is Vipul K Rawal of

Iqbal (film) ''Iqbal'' is a 2005 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age sports drama film written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor. Produced by Subhash Ghai, under "Mukta Searchlight Films", the story follows a cricket-obsessed deaf and mute boy from a remote In ...

fame. In 2004 he was included on the panel of judges for the 29th Radio and Television Advertising Practitioners' Association of India (RAPA) awards.

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Indian television directors Sainik School alumni Artists from Patna {{india-tv-bio-stub