Background
Neeraj Ghaywan was born and brought up in Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad to Maharashtrian parents.
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Neeraj Ghaywan
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After completing his degree in Electrical Engineering from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad in 2002, he did his Master of Business Administration in Marketing from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune.
Career
He did his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya Shivrampally (National Police Academy). He started his career in corporate world with stints in UTV New Media, Hindustan Times and Technical Mahindra. But he was drawn towards cinema.
Observing films with a critic"s eye he started writing for the now defunct Passionforcinema.com.
According to him, that interest grew into passion and with a push from the director, Anurag Kashyap, he made cinema his career and his life. He made his first short film, Independence that was shortlisted for the In Competition section of PFCOne, an online one-minute film festival, in 2010.
He assisted Anurag in the making of Ugly and Gangs of Wasseypur directing two short films in the meanwhile, Shor and Epiphany. He made his first commercial short film in 2016 for British Airways.
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