King of Bollywood

Piyush Jha is a film director and screenwriter of Indian origin, most known for his acclaimed films Sikandar , King of Bollywood and Chalo America. Piyush Jha was born in Jhansi, U.P. At a very early age of 8, he came to Mumbai, Maharashtra with his parents. He grew up and studied there, graduating... with a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at the University of Mumbai and following it up with an MBA. Jha began his career in 1995 in advertising as an Account Executive at Grey Worldwide, where he dealt with clients such as Ambuja Cement and Snowcem Paints. He later went on to work in Mudra Communications in strategic account management with clients such as Procter and Gamble, Godrej Soaps, etc. At this point, he started getting interested in the creative aspect of advertising and began with directing in-house ad films for companies such as Godrej Hair Dye, Federal Bank Ltd., Kitply, etc., and soon moved to directing corporate films as well. In 1998, he took this interest on further to start his own ad film production company Vitamin J Productions, where he made ads for Indian Oil, Hindustan Lever, Symphony Air Coolers, UB Group among many others.
more