Tigmanshu Dhulia is an Indian film dialogue writer, director, actor, screenwriter, producer and casting director known for his works in Hindi cinema and Television.He wrote the dialogues for the 1998 film Dil Se.., which was the first Bollywood film to chart in the UK top ten, and was screened at the Berlin International Film Festival His directing career has also garnered international recognition with the biographical film, Paan Singh Tomar premiered at the 2010 BFI London Film Festival.and the thriller drama Saheb, Biwi Aur GangsterDhulia, who has his roots in the hills of Uttarakhand was born and raised in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India,where his father was a judge at the Allahabad High Court and a secretary of the Students' Federation of India, student wing of the CPM, while his mother was a professor of Sanskrit. He is the youngest of three brothers, one later joined the Navy, while the other became a judge at the Uttarakhand High Court . He attended St. Joseph's College, Allahabad and Anglo Bengali Intermediate College, then Allahabad University where he majored in English, Economics and Modern History. During his studies here, he joined and became a member of the pro-Left Progressive Students' Organisation. After graduating in 1986 he took a master's degree in Theatre at the National School of Drama in New Delhi, completing the course in 1989.