Mr. PANKAJ KAPOOR, age 41, is a task leader of Medient Studios, Inc.
Pankaj Kapoor is veteran journalist-turned-script-writer and co-founder of Medient. He started his career with Times of India (the world's largest English language newspaper), reporting extensively on the Indian film industry. He was a film critic for Asian Age newspaper before turning to screen writing on a full-time basis. He wrote the controversial Hindi film Ek Choti Se Love Story, which was considered one of the sleeper “hits” of 2002. This was followed in 2004 by a Bollywood musical film, Kiss Kis Ko (Who Gets the Kiss?), which was based on the lives of ABOB, India's first boy band. In 2005 he wrote Time Bomb, a mini-series produced and directed by internationally acclaimed filmmaker Ketan Mehta that won the Indian Television Academy Award for best mini-series. That year Kapoor also wrote a horror show, Rooh (Spirits), which won the RAPA award. Mr. Kapoor has executive produced Yellow and Storage 24. He has served as associate producer on the Hindi films Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta and Tera Kya Hoga Jonny (Ride the Wave Jonny), which he also co-wrote.