Rajiv Lakshman

Rajiv Lakshman

A shy introvert as a child, Rajiv wanted to be bold, but ended up becoming Bald! Rajiv, along with his twin, Raghu, is arguably India's best known and most controversial pair of twins. Born and raised in a traditional, education-oriented middle class family in New Delhi, Rajiv's life has been anything but conventional - Dropping out of college along with his twin, and marrying his childhood sweetheart, Susan, outside convention. Having tasted media as a spot-boy in a series of TV spots on Doordarshan, he started off his career in television as a trainee at the age of 20. Rajiv founded a media company in New Delhi, but exited it in 2003 to be with Raghu in Mumbai. From that point on, Rajiv & Raghu have collaborated in many high profile shows. Rajiv, along with Raghu, created India's 1st and longest running romance reality show - Splitsvilla- on MTV, and found fame as the 'terrible twins' on Roadies... India's 1st & longest running adventure reality show (MTV). Rajiv is a multiple award winning content creator, having won both national and international awards for his shows including Emmy & Asia awards for 'IMMIES'- a made-for-TV awards show, and Best adapted format for Masterchef Junior India. Being a versatile talent, Rajiv has hosted as well as judged many shows like 'The Player' & 'Nat Geo Covershot', apart form acting in movies such as 'Tees Maar Khan' & 'Dhanak'. He's also a motivational speaker who has delivered 2 TEDx talks. Rajiv & Raghu are the founders of MONOZYGOTIC, a new-age content company that creates original non-fiction formats & fiction shows for TV and digital platforms. Every year, Rajiv updates his long prison tattoo representing the years of his marriage (17 and counting), and lives with his beautiful wife, Susan and amazing singer & gamer son, Noah.
Rajiv Menon

Rajiv Menon

Rajiv Menon, Founder of "Rajiv Menon Productions", born in Kerala, joined the Film and Television Institute of Chennai in 1981, to study cinematography. In 1984, he went to America to train under cinematographer Garret Brown, best known for his invention of the Steadicam. In 1986, Rajiv founded "Rajiv Menon Productions", popularly known today as "RMP", where he started his career in TV commercials. Rajiv received his first national recognition through his Asian Paints "Pongal" commercial, which he both shot and directed and music for this was composed by A R Rahman. RMP has since produced over 300 TV commercials for leading brands in the country, for over 25 years. Rajiv's work in feature films was noticed and well appreciated when he did the cinematography for the award winning feature film 'Bombay (1995)' . His skill as a cinematographer received much praise, and since, he has worked with accomplished filmmakers like Mani Ratnam, Shyam Benegal and Girish Karnad. His latest contributions have been in Mani Ratnam's Guru (2007) and Kadal (2013) . Rajiv's first directorial venture Minsaara Kanavu (1997) (Electric Dreams) was not only a popular hit but also fetched four national awards for best choreography, best playback - male & female, and best music director. His second directorial venture was the multi-starrer Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) (I have found it), besides winning the best director and best picture awards at filmfare, was screened at numerous International Film Festivals like the London Film Festival, The Washington DC Festival and the Danish Film Festival. A song from the film also won singer Shankar Mahadevan his first National Award. Rajiv Menon is a tremendously hardworking individual and his versatility extends across everything from being an ad photographer, cinematographer, director, actor, singer and orator, making him one of the country's most reputed and sought after film makers. Rajiv is equally interested in giving back to the industry a range of talent it needs to constantly renew itself. It is with this principal aim that he founded the Mindscreen Film Institute - a film school that nurtures tomorrow's talent by providing comprehensive training across all facets of Cinematography, Screenwriting and Filmmaking.

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