Mrugesh Thakor is a Brooklyn based Indian American writer, director, producer, editor. He is currently pursuing a BFA in film at Pratt Institute.

His films have been recognized at the Canadian Screen Award Qualifying International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto, Chicago South Asian Film Festival, New York Lift-Off Film Festival, and others.

Currently, he is in the festival circuit for his film Color of God, that he wrote, directed, co-produced, and edited in 2024. This film was shot across locations in India and the US, and brought together two units of artists in both countries. Before Color of God, he directed other narrative and documentary shorts, commercials, and music videos.

For summer 2024, he was selected as a scholar of the Gotham Film and Media Career Development Program. He is a film production and distribution intern at First Run Features and a video editor at Vinyl Foote Productions as well as other clients in a freelance capacity. At Pratt, he was a video producer for Pratt Sidelights+ and a studio monitor and student mentor for Pratt Film/Video. In 2022, he was a film production intern for Midnight Media & Misha Calvert.

Growing up between two cultures, he became deeply sensitive to the nuances that shape identity, which his films explore through magical realism and intimate, fantastical storytelling. He is drawn to themes of the immigrant journey, the quiet struggles of coming of age, especially the search for purpose, love, and belonging, and the fascinating ways people and places intersect. Through layered portraits of generational and cultural differences, he captures the good, the bad, and the ugly of the human condition.