Manoj Pillai

Manoj Pillai was born in the quaint town of Alappuzha, Kerala in Southern India. A mechanical engineer from PESIT, he started his career in advertising as a copywriter with McCann Erickson, Bangalore. Soon, his passion for storytelling urged him to pursue the art of filmmaking, and thus began Thinkpot.

Today, Manoj stands as one of the most reputed directors, having created over 300 commercials for brands such as Amercian Express, Google, Levi’s, Nike, Incredible India, Volkswagen, Intel, Ministry of Civil Aviation, HP, Samsung, BCCI-IPL, Indian Super League, Tata Motors, Tanishq, Ford, Fiat, etc. His work has won several accolades from D&AD, Clio, New York Festivals, Campaign Age, Work, ADFEST, Goafest, ABBYS, AAAI to name a few.

Manoj has also received the prestigious Inspired Indian award from the Honorable Governor of Karnataka, Dr. H.R Bharadwaj for inspiring numerous first-time voters in India with the Google – The Long Walk commercial. His film for Air Deccan was rated as one of the top three commercials in 30 years of Indian advertising by ‘India Today’. The same commercial also won a place in the Limca Book of records as the longest television commercial to be aired in India.

With over 18 years of experience in the industry, Manoj’s films extract the power of human emotions and his work never misses an opportunity to strike a chord with the audience.

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