Prasoon Joshi (Lyricist)

Prasoon Joshi is an Indian film lyricist, screenwriter and advertising guru and copywriter. He has won the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award three times, twice consecutively: in 2007 and 2008 and again in 2014 for Bhaag Milkha Bhaag.

Born: September 16, 1971 (age 42),Uttarakhand

Popular Movies: Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Rang De Basanti, Delhi 6

Early life and education: Prasoon Joshi spent his earliest years in Almora, Uttarakhand, India. His father, D.K Joshi, served as a PCS officer with the Civil Service of the state government and later became the additional director of the state’s Education Service. These early years all across the North — and spending time in places like Almora, Nainital (where his extended family and relatives still live), Tehri, Chamoli Gopeshwar, and later Rampur, Meerut and Dehradun[3][4] — gave Prasoon a remarkable feel for the real Indian pulse that he is now celebrated for in his lyrics and advertising. His mother, Sushma Joshi, a lecturer in political science, performed for the All India Radio for over three decades.[5] His parents are qualified classical vocalists and daily home life for the young Prasoon was marked with academic discipline, a rich vein of the artistic life and a strong sense of music and culture.

He started writing early in life and published his first book at age 17, Main Aur Woh, a ‘conversation with himself’, inspired by Frederich Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. Two more books followed, establishing him as an author.

His latest book, Sunshine Lanes, a collection of his songs, was launched at the Jaipur Literature Festival in January 2013.

Prasoon did his B. Sc. and post graduation in Physics, then elected to pursue an MBA from Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India.

During his MBA education he decided to fuse his love for culture and art and his faculty for the commercial dynamic and make his career in advertising.

Film career: He made his debut as film lyricist with Rajkumar Santoshi’s Lajja, a critical and commercial success, and this soon led to Yash Chopra’s Hum Tum and a string of highly successful Bollywood films like Fanaa, Rang De Basanti, Taare Zameen Par, Black and Delhi 6. With Rang De Basanti (2006), he also became a dialogue writer.

He won the Filmfare Best Lyricist Award for “Chand Sifarish” from the film Fanaa in 2007 and for “Maa” from Taare Zameen Par in 2008.

He has won the prestigious National Award twice. The first for his work in Taare Zameen Par and the second one in 2013 for Chittagong.

Prasoon’s work for Script Screenplay and dialogue Writing is highly appreciated in Feature Film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag released in July 2013

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Source: Wikipedia
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