Manav Kaul

Acting

Manav Kaul

Born

1976-12-19 (49)

Place of birth

India

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Manav Kaul is an Indian theatre director, playwright, author, actor, and filmmaker. He was nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Tumhari Sulu (2017).

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 15 titles

Subedaar poster
6.9

Haunted by loss and drifting away from his daughter, a retired Subedaar Arjun Maurya’s newly found civilian life is jolted by one reckless act. As old wounds reopen, he must summon the warrior within to face a new kind of war - one that hits too close to his heart.

Subedaar

2026

Baramulla poster
5.9

A cop's inquiry into child kidnappings unravels chilling secrets as supernatural events endanger his family and the peaceful town of Baramulla.

Baramulla

2025

Ajeeb Daastaans poster
6.1

An anthology of four stories that explore the surprising ways in which unexpected catalysts inflame the uncomfortable emotions simmering under fractured relationships.

Ajeeb Daastaans

2021

Jalsa poster
6.3

A hit and run of an 18-year-old girl becomes the hub of a wheel that sets into motion many a spoke - a journalist, a raging mother, a cop and a system all caught in an ethical dilemma. Questions are raised only to realize that the truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Jalsa

2022

Thappad poster
6.9

A young woman's life is shattered into pieces when her husband slaps her at a party, causing her to question what this relationship stands for.

Thappad

2020

Saina poster
6.2

Champion. Olympic Medallist. The Doyen of Indian Badminton. Saina Nehwal is all of this and much more. This biopic chronicles the inspiring story of a gifted youngster's ascendance to the pinnacle of the Badminton World through sheer passion and perseverance.

Saina

2021

Dybbuk poster
5.1

Mahi, a newly married woman, brings an antique Jewish box into her home. When Mahi and her husband Sam begin to have paranormal experiences, they soon learn that the box is a dybbuk containing an evil spirit. The couple then seeks the help of a rabbi to unravel its mystery. Will they survive this ordeal before their child is born?

Dybbuk

2021

Nail Polish poster
6.6

A high profile defence lawyer is promised a Rajya Sabha seat if he wins a case of an accused with charges of killing two migrant children. However, there's much more than what meets the eye in this courtroom drama that explores the uncertainty of human mind and the journey of criminal discovery.

Nail Polish

2021

Madam Chief Minister poster
5.8

A political-drama where a young woman from a small village rises to power into the world of politics by breaking barriers of caste and patriarchy and overcomes the obstacles placed by her opponents to become the chief minister and work for the upliftment of backward classes.

Madam Chief Minister

2021

Trial Period poster
6.1

A working single mother's world turns upside down when her inquisitive son demands a new father on a 30-day 'Trial Period'.

Trial Period

2023

12 “o” CLOCK poster
3.0

Aahuti a metaphysics student from Delhi, shifts to Mumbai to be close to her fiancee, what happens next when she discovers the apartment she lives in is haunted.

12 “o” CLOCK

2021

Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai poster
10.0

A meandering brook of moments from two afternoons spent with Vinod Kumar Shukla, his wife and son at their home in Raipur, saunters between the mingling geographies of past, present and future, drifting in and out of pauses – to ponder, to reflect, to reminisce, and to share.

Chaar Phool Hain Aur Duniya Hai

2024

Go Noni Go poster
NR

Middle-aged Noni finds unexpected joy when she develops feelings for her younger yoga instructor Anand, causing friction with her free-spirited sister Binni. Their late-life romance defies societal norms and expectations.

Go Noni Go

2024

Four Slippers poster
NR

Young Rajat, caught fantasising in class, is humiliated by a sadistic teacher. Permanently welding education to a feeling of shame, this primal trauma hurls Rajat into a life of progressive social isolation and emotional corruption.

Four Slippers

2023

The Way We Are poster
NR

A husband and wife reminisce about the memories that they've hidden from each other and from themselves, and come into their own along the way.

The Way We Are

2022

2010s · 13 titles

Badla poster
7.2

A dynamic young entrepreneur finds herself locked in a hotel room with the corpse of her dead lover. She hires a prestigious lawyer to defend her and they work together to figure out what actually happened.

Badla

2019

Jolly LLB 2 poster
7.0

A blunt, abrasive and yet oddly compassionate Jagdishwar Mishra aka Jolly, a small-time struggling lawyer who moves from Kanpur to the city of Nawabs to pursue his dream of becoming a big-time lawyer.

Jolly LLB 2

2017

Tumhari Sulu poster
6.5

A happy-go-lucky Mumbai suburban housewife Sulochana, fondly known as Sulu, lands the role of a night RJ, resulting in drastic changes to her routine life.

Tumhari Sulu

2017

Wazir poster
6.6

'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.

Wazir

2016

Kai Po Che! poster
7.1

Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.

Kai Po Che!

2013

I Am poster
6.5

I Am is a 2011 Indian anthology film by Onir. It consists of four short films: "Omar", "Afia", "Abhimanyu", and "Megha". Each film shares the common theme of fear and each is also based on real life stories. The film was financed by donations from more than 400 different people around the world, many of whom donated through social networking sites like Facebook. There are four stories but the characters are interwoven with each story. "Abhimanyu" is based on child abuse, "Omar" on gay rights, "Megha" is about Kashmiri Pandits and "Afia" deals with sperm donation. I Am was released with subtitles in all regions as six different languages are spoken in the film: Hindi, English, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali and Kashmiri.

I Am

2011

City Lights poster
7.1

Deepak Singh was an ex army person and owned a small garment shop in a Rajasthani village. When his life struck by a tragedy, he migrates to Mumbai, with his wife and young child, hoping for a better life. However, upon arriving, he soon discovers the challenges of life in a big city.

City Lights

2014

Jai Gangaajal poster
5.4

The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.

Jai Gangaajal

2016

Dobaara poster
3.0

22-year-old Parvathy is a free-spirited girl who loves to live life on her terms. However, when she is left with no option but to tie the knot with a man of her parents' choice, her life takes a 360 degree turn. Mohan and Parvathy migrate, and this marks the beginning of their new life together. But Mohan's priorities are clearly defined from the very start of their relationship. He invests all his time in his work. His intentions are pure; to build the perfect life for his family. But with a new addition to the family and as the years go by, Mohan gets further involved in his work. It is only after their son, Rohit, graduates that Parvathy decides to take a drastic step, shaking up her 20 years of marriage.

Dobaara

2018

Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai? poster
4.5

Albert Pinto goes missing one day and his girlfriend and family start making rounds at the police station to track him down. Unknown to them, he is on his way to Goa to carry out his first assignment as a hitman.

Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyun Aata Hai?

2019

Music Teacher poster
6.6

Despite his ambitions to make it big, Beni is still stuck in the hills, bitter and hurt, struggling to make ends meet by teaching music and singing in clubs. Jyotsna, his estranged student and now a Bollywood singer, left the hills 8 years ago. The town is abuzz with the news of Jyotsna's return to perform at a music concert. Beni has to come to terms with the pains of the past and the delusions of the present to deal with both, Jyotsna's presence in the hills and in his life.

Music Teacher

2018

Maroon poster
5.3

An insomniac university professor fears as his wife has gone missing and is clueless resulting him driving Marooned in the house through the psychological traumas.

Maroon

2017

Daayen Ya Baayen poster
7.8

DAAYEN YA BAAYEN revolves around a schoolteacher in a remote village in the Himalayas who wins a luxury car in a TV contest. His life spirals in a series of comic conflicts as he tries to match the rest of his life to the glamour of the car, undoing himself completely in the process. When the car is stolen, he sets out on a journey to recover more than just his prized vehicle - his lost dignity.

Daayen Ya Baayen

2010

Series credits

C.I.D. poster
5.8

A team of dedicated men and women in the Crime Investigation Department will risk everything to solve Mumbai's toughest, most complicated crimes.

C.I.D.

1998

The Kapil Sharma Show poster
7.0

Kapil Sharma is back with his gang - Bindu, Chandan and 'mohalle ki dhoban' Gudiya. In tow is a new character, Maski, along with Goli, Roopmati and more! Enjoy guaranteed laughter with Kapil and his antics as different celebrities join in.

The Kapil Sharma Show

2016

GHOUL poster
6.8

A newly minted military interrogator arrives at a covert detention center to discover that some of the terrorists held there are not of this world.

GHOUL

2018

Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper poster
7.1

A banking crisis forces CA topper Tribhuvan Mishra to take up sex work. Will this dual existence alleviate his troubles — or create entirely new ones?

Tribhuvan Mishra CA Topper

2024

The Fame Game poster
5.8

When India's most famous actress goes missing, the search for her chips away at the flawless facade of her life and family, revealing painful truths.

The Fame Game

2022

Real Kashmir Football Club poster
4.5

Inspired by the true story of a Kashmiri Hindu Pandit and a Kashmiri Muslim responsible for the formation of the Real Kashmir Football Club, the first ever club from Jammu and Kashmir to compete in any top-flight football league in India.

Real Kashmir Football Club

2025

The Verdict - State Vs Nanavati poster
5.0

Indian naval commander K.M. Nanavati returns home from the line of duty, only to find that his wife Sylvia Nanavati is having an extra-marital affair with the businessman & socialite Prem Ahuja. Jealousy and anger lead to an unexpected encounter where Nanavati fires three shots from his service gun. Was this an Honour killing or murder? This sparks a nationwide debate. On one hand, the people, media, and government debate moralities of Sylvia & Prem to establish Nanavati as a national hero. On the other hand, Parsis and Sindhis stand against each other in a war to save their community’s pride or convict a murderer. Witness the complete truth of the last and most controversial jury trial in India—the case that divided India.

The Verdict - State Vs Nanavati

2019

Behind the camera

Tathagat poster
7.0

Set in the meditative quietude of a Himalayan village, Tathagat is a poetically shot tale of guilt. Following the journey of a monk questioning his renunciation, this philosophical drama takes a thought-provoking look at the relationship between our childhood memories and adulthood perplexities.

Tathagat

2021

Tathagat poster
7.0

Set in the meditative quietude of a Himalayan village, Tathagat is a poetically shot tale of guilt. Following the journey of a monk questioning his renunciation, this philosophical drama takes a thought-provoking look at the relationship between our childhood memories and adulthood perplexities.

Tathagat

2021

Hansa poster
NR

Set in the picturesque Himalayas, Hansa attempts to depict the trials and tribulations faced by the villagers who reside there. The movie is seen from perspective of a little boy, Hansa and his sister, Cheeku’s eyes. Their father has mysteriously disappeared and a lot of the responsibility falls on Cheeku who has to prevent her house from getting sold and is at the receiving end of a powerful villager’s lecherous advances while little Hansa is too restless and distracted to pay attention to all the trouble his sister is facing.

Hansa

2012

Hansa poster
NR

Set in the picturesque Himalayas, Hansa attempts to depict the trials and tribulations faced by the villagers who reside there. The movie is seen from perspective of a little boy, Hansa and his sister, Cheeku’s eyes. Their father has mysteriously disappeared and a lot of the responsibility falls on Cheeku who has to prevent her house from getting sold and is at the receiving end of a powerful villager’s lecherous advances while little Hansa is too restless and distracted to pay attention to all the trouble his sister is facing.

Hansa

2012

Hansa poster
NR

Set in the picturesque Himalayas, Hansa attempts to depict the trials and tribulations faced by the villagers who reside there. The movie is seen from perspective of a little boy, Hansa and his sister, Cheeku’s eyes. Their father has mysteriously disappeared and a lot of the responsibility falls on Cheeku who has to prevent her house from getting sold and is at the receiving end of a powerful villager’s lecherous advances while little Hansa is too restless and distracted to pay attention to all the trouble his sister is facing.

Hansa

2012