 After passing high school from sainik school tilaiya  and later graduating from the Film and Television Institute of India in Pune in 1977 Manjul Sinha came to Bombay in pursuit of a career in direction.After directing many small television advertisements, his first major break was with "Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi", which was among the first sitcoms on Indian television.At that time Indian television viewership was seeing a new dawn, colour television having just arrived, and "Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi" became very popular