Manoj Tyagi

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.

Born and brought up in Delhi, Tyagi is an MBA.

He started 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 for opening the film world has a screenwriter which 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).