Manoj Tyagi
Biography
Manoj Tyagi (born 1968 ) is an Indian screenwriter and film director in the Hindi cinema. He had won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay twice, for Page 3 (2005) and Apaharan (2006), apart from Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Page 3, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film.
He made his directorial debut with Mumbai Salsa (2007) produced by Vikram Bhatt's ASA Films for whom he had written a couple of films.
He started his career in the corporate world, working for companies like Xerox, Canon, and ABN AMRO Bank when he shifted to Mumbai in 2002. Meanwhile, he started looking to open the film world as a screenwriter who came as co-writing Satta, with Madhur Bhandarkar, which received critical acclaim.
Over the years, he has worked extensively, National Film Award-winning director, Madhur Bhandarkar, in films like Aan: Men at Work (2004), National Film Award-winningPage 3 (2005), Corporate (2006), and Jail (2009).