Jatinder Mauhar

Jatinder Mauhar
Jatinder Mauhar in 2016, Los Angeles
Born	Bhutta, Punjab, India
Education	Panjab University
Alma mater	Government Institute of Textile Chemistry and Knitting Technology, Ludhiana
Occupation(s)	Director,[1] Script Writer,[2] Columnist, Researcher
Years active	2006 – Present

Jatinder Mauhar is an Indian Film Director,^[3] Script Writer, Columnist and Researcher. In the very beginning, he started his career with music videos and it was after some time that Jatinder Directed his debut film Mitti.^[4] Jatinder Mauhar established himself as a style through Mitti (2010), Sarsa appropriated by producer as Sikandar (2013) and Qissa Punjab (2015). He has written extensively about cinema and is one of the best speakers in Punjabi on cinema. He did his professional training in Knitting Technology, and worked in the industry for couple of years before pursuing his interest in cinema. His journey from a keen watcher to filmmaker is punctuated with training in Zee Institute of Media Arts,^[5] Mumbai and on job training in making music videos as director. He has written story, screenplay and dialogues of Mitti. In Sarsa he collaborated with Daljit Ami.^{[citation needed]} Jatinder worked on a documentary film on cross-border train Samjhauta Express as a researcher with filmmaker Gerry Troyna For BBC.