Mangesh Hadawale


Mangesh Hadawale is an Indian film writer-director and ad-film maker. His first film Tingya received huge commercial as well as critical acclaim. Dekh Indian Circus, his second film was in Hindi and has received many national and international awards.

Biography

Mangesh Hadawale was born in Rajuri village in Junnar, Maharashtra in a farming family. After completing his schooling in the Government Marathi School, Mangesh moved to Pune. In 2001 he completed graduation in theater from the Center for Performing Arts, University of Pune. He moved to Mumbai to pursue his passion of films and wrote his first script Tingya. It took him five years and 41 rejections to finally find a production house. Tingya went on to become a huge critical and commercial success.
After Tingya, Mangesh's next project in Hindi language Dekh Indian Circus was produced by Sundial Pictures. The film starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Tannishtha Chatterjee premiered at the 16th Busan Film Festival and won the prestigious PSB/KNN Audience Award. Dekh Indian Circus has won many national and international awards.
Mangesh is actively involved with creating multilingual ad and corporate films in the agricultural-rural sector. He has worked with brands like ICICI Bank, ICICI Lombard, MAHYCO, Bayer, UPL, Pesticides India, JU Agri Sciences and most recently Tropical Organic Agro Systems. He also directed Bill Gates Foundation's social awareness TVCs for Sutradhar Media & Communication PVT. LTD. and Pradeep Sarkar's Apocalypso Filmworks.
Mangesh made his foray into production with Tapaal, a Marathi film released in 2014. The film about a childless couple and a kid was written by Mangesh and directed by his close friend and cinematographer Laxman Utekar. He also served as a jury member at the 62nd National Film Awards, India in 2015. In 2016, an exclusive festival of his three films was held in four cities of USA.
While working on malaal, he wrote and directed Chalo Jeete Hain, a short film about a boy and his quest to find purpose of life. Film won National Award for Best Film on Family Values...chalo jeete hain received unimaginable response and acclaim for a short film in India. The film premiered on ten channels of Star TV network simultaneously on 29 July 2018. Mangesh's 2019 directorial is titled Malaal which is being produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali's SLB Films.

Personal life

Mangesh continues to split his time between films and farming. On 18 April 2010, Mangesh married his childhood friend Vrushali in Rajuri. The couple have two sons. Mangesh enjoys being connected to his roots and has continued farming at his native place. He is also part of ventures Parashar Agri-tourism and Hachiko Tourism in Junnar.

Filmography