Prasoon Joshi

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Prasoon Joshi, born 16 September 1971 at Almora in Uttaranchal, India, is the regional Creative Director for McCann-Erickson for south and south-east Asia, as well as a lyricist for many popular Bollywood movies; among them Fanaa, Rang De Basanti, Black and Hum Tum, and has also created many advertisements; because of which he has earned the title of "the ad guru of India". He is also an alumnus of Institute of Management Technology, a business school located in Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, India.

Contents 1 Career 2 Awards 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

He has been as the lyricist in the following Bollywood films:^[1]

• Fanaa (2006)
• Rang De Basanti (2006)
• Black (2005)
• Rok Sako To Rok Lo (2004)
• Phir Milenge (2004)
• Hum Tum (2004)
• Aankhen (2002)
• Lajja (2001)

He has created the advertisements for the following products:^[2]

• Coca Cola
• Chlormint
• Asian paints
• Cadbury
• NDTV India
• Pulse Polio Program
• Vacao Scooty
• Close up
• Ponds

[edit] Awards

• He has won the Golden Lion at the Cannes Film Festival.
• He has won the 2002 ABBY Awards for the Best Copywriter and the Best Ad Campaign
• He has won more then 200 advertising awards.
• He has received the Screen award for best lyrics from the film Hum Tum for the song Sason ko Sason.

[edit] References

1. ^ See IMDb
2. ^ See [1]

He has received filmfare best lyricst award 2006 for the song "Chand sifarish" from the film Faana

[edit] External links

• Prasoon Joshi at the Internet Movie Database