I am Mrugesh Thakor, a Brooklyn based filmmaker and story teller. Growing up between two continents and having had the fortune of seeing different parts of the world has had a huge influence on me as an artist. I started film making when I noticed the harsher side of life in New York city and felt the urge to do something to help the world. Film is my way of giving back, and I intend to do so by telling stories about just how connected this word truly is. We as people have taken some lines on a map and words on a paper too seriously, despite how arbitrary they truly are. I hope that my films can make people take a step back and notice the oneness of the universe.

I use art to express the divisions and misunderstandings in my own life that cause me sorrows. In some way somewhere, this expression heals my own soul, and in turn of all those who consume my art.

When I was in 2nd grade and found myself alone, I played intense Bollywood sound tracks and developed quite the temper. Due to the temper, my parents sent me to a boarding school in a forest in southern India surrounded by people from everywhere. There, I became obsessed with the idea of being a pro-runner at age fourteen while playing the Rocky movie soundtrack. This led me to spend time in a Kenyan village to learn from the best where I contemplated my true passion and witnessed a way of life dramatically different from mine. Soon, my family moved across the world to America and I dealt with a huge blow in my face. Here, I discovered and fought for my true passion for film, all while coping with intense generational and cultural differences.

During all of this, a fantastical film world in my head secretly found joy and entertainment even in life’s worst moments and my art is a result of everything I have seen and everything I’ve felt. It is a criticism of an unequal world, an appreciation of the solace we find in love. It is romanticizing the drive that finding one’s passions gives humans. It is also a contemplation on all boundaries made by man. I want to bring people together by taking a step back and looking into their own selves, and film is my way of doing this.

For summer 2024 I have been selected as a scholar of the Gotham Film and Media Career Development Program. I am also a film production and distribution intern at First Run Features.

I have directed several narrative and documentary shorts, commercials, and even some music videos. At Pratt, I am a video producer for Pratt Sidelights+ and a film studio monitor as well as a student mentor for Pratt film/video. I am also a video editor at Vinyl Footnote Productions, as well as various other clients in a freelance capacity.

In the past, I was a film production intern for Midnight Media & Misha Calvert for fall 2023. My films have been recognized at the New York Lift-Off Film Festival. The New York Odyssey Film Festival, and the Indian Independent Film Festival and the