Biography of the Directors
Pradeep Nayak
Belongs to Orissa, India
Although a post graduate in Mathematics from
Sambalpur University, Orissa, Pradeep Nayak started his career as a cartoonist
and illustrator in Delhi owing to his excellent drawing skills. He also worked
as a communication designer/Programme Officer with a national NGO – The Indian
Council of Social Marketing, New Delhi for 5 years. During this phase of his
career he was also involved with various projects of Ministry of Youth Affairs
and Sports, NACO, International Red Cross Society, Commonwealth Youth
Programme, NSS, World Food Programme, International Life Sciences Institute,
etc.
Also he is co-author of a book called ‘Human
Values – A Voyage from I to We’ with foreword by Dr. Karan Singh.
To peruse his passion of film making he
shifted his base to Mumbai and started working as a trainee animator with Zee.
Since then he is steadily progressing towards establishing himself as a writer
and director of Hindi films.
Pradeep Nayak reads, travels, does cartooning
in his free time.
Ambrish Beniwal
Belongs to Rajasthan, India
In addition to being a gifted artist Ambrish
Beniwal is a science graduate, a trained 2D character animator with extensive
knowledge in film making. Highly dedicated and focused towards his profession
he is also trained in pre and post production.
His first stint in Mumbai Film Industry was
in 1999, when he joined Zee as 2D/3D animator in 1999 and started working on
the film ‘Bhagmati, the Queen of Fortunes’. Since then he is steadily
progressing towards establishing himself as a writer and director of Hindi
films.
Ambrish paints huge canvases, loves to spend
time on seashores on his spare time.
Both Ambrish Beniwal and Pradeep Nayak are
avid trekkers and have trekked in many parts of Himalayas in India, Nepal and
Bhutan.
Filmography of the Directors
Ambrish Beniwal & Pradeep Nayak - the
extensively versatile talents, have been working in the Mumbai film industry as
a team since last 9 years as writers, visualizers, trained character animators,
storyboard designers, art directors, who are also proficient in publicity
design and post production. Over the years they have contributed a lot to
films, advertisements and television in various capacities.
As Concept Visualizers for TVC’s in India
they have worked on brands such as Vodafone, Moserbaer, Phillips, Rasna; and
for Intenational TVC’s the pair has worked on Lipton, Nestle, Roberto Coin and
Telenor.
The team has worked on Kit Kat
(International), Exide and CEAT as Animation Directors. They have directed
Bengali Music Videos and a Hindi Music Video.
Other than that they’ve done storyboards for
Sunny Deol’s second directorial venture ‘The Man’, publicity design for Deepti Naval’s ‘Do Paise ki Dhoop Chaar
Ane ki Baarish’, storyboards and publicity design for Ashok Nanda’s ‘Rivaaz’,
art direction and publicity design for Ramesh More’s Marathi film ‘Mahasatta’
which was selected for Indian Panorama in the year 2009. They have designed
supplementary posters for Prakash Jha’s ‘Aarakshan’. Brand ‘Wheel’ bagged gold
at the Emvies Awards in 2009 for a short documentary done by the dyad for
‘Jatra’. Their 45 minute documentary film on Bombay Metal Exchange which
includes interviews of personalities like Mr. Jignesh Shah, former Chairman,
MCX and Lord R. K. Bagri, former Chairman, London Metal Exchange was highly appreciated
internationally.
They are also signed as Directors with Plus
Entertainment and as Writers with D Screen Entertainment for their forthcoming
projects.
After their last stint as Associate Directors
with Radhika Rao and Vinay Shapru under the T Series banner (for their
forthcoming Sunny Deol, Kangana Ranawat starrer film ‘Happy New Year’); they
are now directing a 3D Animation series for Beyond Dreams Entertainment.
Recently directed a short film ::
Where is the honour in being a common ma
Production by :: Beyond Dreams Entertainment
Premise :: The idea of democracy
Genre: Drama, Satire
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