Manahar Kumar
- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Manahar Kumar is a BAFTA Newcomer, writer-multiple student EMMY® award winning director-actor. While acting on-stage in classics like The Night of January 16 (John Graham Whitfield), The Mousetrap (Detective Sergeant Trotter) and 12 Angry Men (Juror No. 8), Manahar learnt, grew and fell in love with performing arts. Most recently he's acted in the Shah Rukh Khan blockbuster Jawan and Amazon Prime's International EMMY® nominated, Made In Heaven. He completed a stint in the Writers Room for a Jio Series, GOATS, premiering in 2025.
In Manipal, he co-founded a production house, Untied Laces. During his graduate program, MFA in Film & TV at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Atlanta, Manahar won the "Most Likely to be a Renowned Actor" Ambassador's Choice Award, the "Outstanding Academic Achievement Award", Class of 2021 and was also the lead in the Pilot Production - What Remains of Emily. He has trained under Bradley Cooper's acting coach for Maestro, Kim Gillingham, the Margie Haber Studio in Los Angeles, Whole World Improv Theatre in Atlanta and pursued acting workshops by the Film Television Institute of India.
As a Director-Producer he's worked with non-profits like, Men Against Rape and Discrimination (MARD) and Chhoti si Asha (A Small Wish) and brands like Deloitte and Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC). Manahar's thesis, Stardust won the "Audience Award" at Georgia Film Festival, recently screened at the International Film Festival of South Asia, Toronto, competing with his own shorts where he starred as the lead in Distant (Talent Performance EMMY® winner) and Mabrook.
Manahar's films have been immensely appreciated at the Academy Award qualifying Atlanta Film Festival, Palm Springs International, Bentonville Film Festival, to name a few, also being a nominee by the Georgia Film Critics Association for the Oglethorpe Award for Excellence.
What draws Manahar to filmmaking and acting is the desire to move and entertain audiences.
In Manipal, he co-founded a production house, Untied Laces. During his graduate program, MFA in Film & TV at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Atlanta, Manahar won the "Most Likely to be a Renowned Actor" Ambassador's Choice Award, the "Outstanding Academic Achievement Award", Class of 2021 and was also the lead in the Pilot Production - What Remains of Emily. He has trained under Bradley Cooper's acting coach for Maestro, Kim Gillingham, the Margie Haber Studio in Los Angeles, Whole World Improv Theatre in Atlanta and pursued acting workshops by the Film Television Institute of India.
As a Director-Producer he's worked with non-profits like, Men Against Rape and Discrimination (MARD) and Chhoti si Asha (A Small Wish) and brands like Deloitte and Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC). Manahar's thesis, Stardust won the "Audience Award" at Georgia Film Festival, recently screened at the International Film Festival of South Asia, Toronto, competing with his own shorts where he starred as the lead in Distant (Talent Performance EMMY® winner) and Mabrook.
Manahar's films have been immensely appreciated at the Academy Award qualifying Atlanta Film Festival, Palm Springs International, Bentonville Film Festival, to name a few, also being a nominee by the Georgia Film Critics Association for the Oglethorpe Award for Excellence.
What draws Manahar to filmmaking and acting is the desire to move and entertain audiences.
