Prasoon Joshi

Prasoon Joshi () (born 16 September 1971) is an Indian lyricist, screenwriter and advertising copywriter. A prolific Writer-Poet whose first book of 3 books "Main aur Woh" was published when he was 17 years of age, an internationally acclaimed Indian advertising professional, Bollywood film songwriter, as well as a dialogue and screenwriter who won Filmfare Best Lyricist Award, consecutively in 2007 and 2008, a columnist and a respected speaker.

Early life and education

Prasoon Joshi was born on 16 September 1971 in Almora, Uttarakhand, India, where he spent a part of his childhood, and since his father, D. K. Joshi, served as a PCS officer (civil service), with the state government and later became Additional Director-Education, he spent his growing years in various towns including Nainital where his extended family and relative still live Tehri, Chamoli Gopeshwar, and later Rampur, Meerut and Dehradun. creativeuttarakhand (Myor Pahad). Both his parents are qualified classical vocalists, in fact his mother, Sushma Joshi, who was a lecturer in Political Science, also performed for All India Radio for over three decades. The Economic Times', 3 May 2008.

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, subsequently he has published...
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