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WORK EXPERIENCE 

DIRECTOR


Director (Oct’08~Present)


I have been making  films under my banner of Sparsh Films formerly YoumeTown (Youmeh town - japanese for Dreams) Motion Pictures:

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  • Worked as Post producer on Amazon Mini Shorts titled 'Gunchakkar' uncredited.

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  • Worked as Post producer on Amazon Mini Shorts titled 'Influencer Life'.

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  • Adapted for screen from Manuscript of the Director, 2 Upcoming British Film Institute commisioned Feature Films tentatively titled Gun Flower and Sunflower.

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  • Adapted for screen & wrote the screenplay of Upcoming Feature Film LSD Marriage Bureau (Lal Shankar Dubey Marriage Bureau).

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  • Made On Air Promo of Kailash Kher & Band Kailasa's New year Gala Performance on DD National.

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  • Worked as Senior Visiting Professor Media and FIlms at Indian Institute of Labour Management,Gurugram.2021

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  • Worked at Art of Living Sri Sri Publications as Creative Director for One and a Half Year,where I produced various Promos,and Social media video and stills, post for Instagram and facebook. 2019-2020

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  • Was Appointed as the Creative Head for Alamara Films for Making a Promo Video of Avid Technologies Bangalore.

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  • Made,Directed and Produced a Promo & TVC for Peoplestrong for their App launch 'Alt-1'.

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  • Directed and Conceptualized 2 Corporate films for Carrier Midea India on their product line of 2015-16. Both films were theme-based, separately for Carrier and Midea on Superheroes and Bollywood respectively (2015).

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  • Directed and Conceptualized “ASP Plus”, an instructional film for Carrier Midea India (2014).

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  • Directed and Conceptualized a Corporate film for Carrier Midea India on their Air- Conditioning product line of 2014-15 (2014).

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  • Directed and Edited “Anandotsav” and “Aashirwaad”; both were documentaries covering the journey of the Art of Living in making Bihar a stress-free state; also covering the work done in naxal-effected areas during the span of 5 years (2011-12).

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  • Directed “Pehel” a documentary on Prevention of Child Marriages in Bihar; Hired by Art of Living for their co-project with UNICEF (2011-12).

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  • Directed and Conceptualized “An Indian Odyssey” a documentary film for PSBT showcasing the lives of foreign artists who have settled in India for the love of traditional Indian Art-forms (2010-11).

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  • The Art Of Living Organization (AOL) Bangalore Video Director, Publication Division (Oct’07~Oct’08) .

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  • Directed and Edited the documentary film ‘Flood Relief project’ based on the Kosi- river floods in the villages of Bihar (2008).

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  • Directed and Edited a documentary film based on the children living in “Remand Homes” (or observation/shelter homes) for a co-project of UNICEF, AOL and Govt. of Bihar (2008).

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  • News Entertainment and Television New Delhi Director/Script-writer (Jan~Oct’07).

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   • Directed 3 episodes for a program called “Kiran”, which was aired on Doordarshan. All 3 episodes were selected as part of the      group of 12 films that made Kiran the winner of Indian Tele-Awards, 2008. (Video available on request).

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Black Magic Motion Pictures Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai
     Asst. Director (June~Dec’06)

  • 2nd Asst. Director in Post Production of Abhijit Choudhary’s Alpenlibe Hair-pulling TVC.

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  • Chief Asst. Director in Ishwar Singh’s Parle-Monaco Bengali and Tamil courtroom TVC.

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  • 2nd Asst. Director in Ishwar Singh & Vikram Srivastava’s Hindustan Construction Company’s corporate film.

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  • 2nd Asst. Director in Arjun Goresariya’s Dabur Chyawanprash, Dabur Chyawan Junior and Dabur Chyawanshakti TVC

    Nirmal Katha New Delhi Asst. Director/Asst. Editor (Jan~Aug’04).

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     • Worked as Chief Asst. Director and Chief Editor in a documentary film on the famous leftist Indian author Nirmal Verma. The          film was made for the Sahitya Kala Academy.

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     Star TV India Pvt. Ltd. Mumbai Broadcasting Operations and Engineering (BO. & E) (June~Sept’02) Internship

     • Worked as a Trainee Editor and Asst. Editor on platform Avid DV Express Assisted in MCR as a VTR Operator, maintaining              and logging of tapes.

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EDUCATION

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  Film and Television Institute of India (FTII)

  Pune, July’05 

  • Direction

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Madhubala Institute of Communications & Electronic Media (MBICEM)

  • (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) New Delhi, Aug’01 ~ June’04.

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  • Bachelor of Mass Communication (Honors).

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  • Focus on all aspects of Mass Communications.

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St.Michael's High School,Digha Ghat,Patna1996-1998

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Delhi Public School Vasant Kunj 1993-1996

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A.F.B.B.S 1989-1993

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ACHIEVEMENTS & ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (Part-Time)

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  • Directed and edited “War-birds”, a 50-minutes documentary on fighter planes of the Indian Air Force, showcasing 6 aircrafts 6 pilots with confirmed Kills from different Wars of the IAF. The film was highly acclaimed by the IAF headquarters.

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  • One of the five organizers of the very first Undergraduate Film Festival, called "First Frame 2003" screened at Siri Fort Auditorium # 3 in New Delhi.

    References and Videos Available on Request. 

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