Manan Katohora

Manan Katohora is a film producer and director. He was born on 25 February 1976 in New Delhi, India as Madhur. His nickname is Pomil. He completed his computer engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology and MBA in Information Systems and Marketing from the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania and script writing from New York Click to look into! >> Read More... . His mother is a published writer and his biggest inspiration.

He is the CEO/ Director of JMD Creations LLC which is a Maryland based Internet marketing, event management, and film production company in Washington DC. He loved films and writing since he was a kid. He started writing some poems, short stories and his first story was titled Pralay when he was nine years old. Pralay was a revenge story of a wronged lover, a post apocalyptic fiction. He started his career as a director and a writer with the film Arya Click to look into! >> Read More... in 2003.

Tirlok Malik Bio coming soon... >> Read More... , producer of the first Indian- American film Lonely in America, gave him a break and produced the film “Arya” which was an innovative, original psychological thriller in Telugu. It was released on 23 May 2005. He also won one award for this film and got several nominations.

He is known for his films like Arya, Indian Fish in American Waters in 2003, Flavors in 2003, When Kiran met Karen in 2008, Date #25, Extrospection in 2009, E- Preeti in 2016, Margaret in 2015, 9 Eleven in 2011. His film 9 Eleven was a psychological thriller. It was about 11 random people who werekidnapped and locked into a room, then threatened and killed one by one. Its subtitle was “Be afraid. Be very afraid”. Hetook two and a half years to complete this project as it was a challenge for him to find investors and 12 fluent Hindi speakers in the Washington DC area.

Sadhna Mathur, Krishnan Mathur, and Narain Mathur supported him. He won the 2012 Rising Star Award for this film at the Canada International Film Festival, and it was also awarded as the best feature film at the People Film Festival in Manhattan, New York City, where it was the last show of the event.

His film Kiran met Karen was about two women where an Indian woman in New York was in a relationship with an American woman journalist. It is partly inspired by the true story of one of his friends. He made many short films also during his career.