Rajesh Krishnan

Rajesh Krishnan is an Indian filmmaker screenwriter and producer predominantly known for his work on various humorbased television commercials He was born in Mumbai Maharashtra He made his directorial debut with Lootcase a comedy thriller for which he was awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Debut Director at the 66th Filmfare Awards Rajesh was born into a Palakkad Iyer family and grew up in Mumbai He did his schooling at Vivek Vidyalaya School in Goregaon and studied bachelors in commerce from Shri Chinai College of Commerce Economics He finished his Post Graduate studies in Advertising and Communications at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in 1995 Rajesh started his career as a copywriter and worked with agencies including Contract Enterprise Nexus and Ogilvy for five years In 2007 he founded Soda Films along with producer Ameya Dahibavkar an advertising production house based in Mumbai Rajesh ventured into OTT space by directing Tripling a drama series which was created by The Viral Fever and awarded the Asian Television Awards in the year 2017 In 2020 he cowrote and directed Kunal Khemu and Rasika Dugal starrer Lootcase for which he received two nominations for a Filmfare award for Best Story and Best Screenplay and also won an award for Best Debut Director on 27 March 2021 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia