Early Man Film

Early Man Film Early Man Film is an Advertising production House started by Anand Menon and Ayappa KM in 2013.

30/04/2026

ChatGPT: Bala vs Waterfall
Director: Abhinav Pratiman
Executive Producer: Anand Menon
Producer: Amarjeet Phukan

OpenAI Team:
Dean Wei, Fiona Maben, Gemma Knight, Jennifer Chien, Julia Hoffman, Mar Soler, Sheeladitya Mohanty, Scott Dungate & Angeline Wong

Hue & Why Team:
George Abhraham, Susan Mathen & Jossy Raphael

DOP: Tassaduq Hussain
Production Designer: Manisha Khandelwal
Casting: Gayathri Smitha (Insaights)
Costume Stylist: Theia Tekchandaney
Makeup & Hair Stylist: Sara Capela & team
Line Producer: Subodh Gupta
Chief AD: Naved Rizvi
DA: Siddhima Dubey
2nd AD: Yatharth Bhavsar, Madhurima Roy, Adarsh Mahalley & Wrutuja Sawant
Intern: Anupriya Verma
Unit Production Manager: Rahul Kamti, Khyati Hooda, Sunny Lobo
Production Assistant: Shubbham Verma, Juilee Garge, Sachi Shah and Soham Parab
Sound (Sync): Stanley Mendonca
Focus Puller: Nilesh Gorakha
Gaffer: Mansoor Ali
Steadicam: Bhanu Pratap Singh
Dolly Operator: Naseeruddin Shaikh
Dressman: Vivek Tiwari & team
Art Director: Ramesh Yadav
Set Dressers: Tarannum Hussain, Ankita Parihar, Sapna Jaiswal
Spot Team: Kamlesh Mishra & Team
DIT: Digital Dada

Post Production Crew
Post Producer: Vikram Solanki
Post Assistant: Kartik Kamti
Offline Editor: Avro Banerjee
Assistant Offline Editor: Navtika Sharma
Music Director: Abhishek Arora
Music Directors Assistant: Rishabh Dev pandit
Sound Associate Mixer: Ajinkya Phadada
Accounts Team - Nirav Dama and Manish Nishad
Office Team - Pritam Mahadik and Sandesh More

09/04/2026

Supermoney Reverse
Director - Ayappa KM
Executive Producer - Anand Menon
Client - Super Money
Founder, CEO - Prakash Sikaria
Marketing Head - Aditya Nair
COO - Premanshu Singh
Agency -Tilt Brand Solutions
DOP - Satchith Paulose
1st AC: Hamid Shaikh
Production Designer - Nimish Kotwal
Costume Stylist - Reedima Indulkar & Urvi Negandhi
Makeup & Hair Stylist - Abinash Patra (Bunty)
Line Producer - Shail Vora
Production Team - Gurdeep Singh Chadda, Thimmiah Karthamada, Dev Singh Bist
Chief AD - Naved Rizvi
DA - Abir Kasat
2nd AD - Aishwarya Chodankar, Mayank Keshwani
Asst Dir: Anupriya Verma
Casting - Navrattan Mehta
Sound - Zahir Bandukwala
Gaffer - Dharam
Focus Puller - Raju Baldoori
Key Grip - Javed Khan (Cine grips)
Costume Assistant - Alifiyah Bengali, Riva Paun
Dressman - Shabhaz
Art Director - Riyaz Shaikh
Set Dressers - Rudra, Samidha
Spot Team - Kamlesh & Team
DIT - Ram Rathod
Salman Khan Entourage
Manager - Sodhan Patel, Jodry Patel
Makeup Artist - Sudesh Naag
Stylist - Tarushka Kiit
Personal Digital Team - Saajan Singh
Driver - Ashok Singh, Rajesh Rodrigues
Spot - Madhav Yadav
Security - Jagraj Ghooman
Hairstylist - Imran Bagwan
Personal Boy - Salim Sheikh
Physiotherapist - Pratek
Post Producer - Vikram Solanki
Post Assistant- Rohit Yadav & Kartik Kamti
Offline Editor - Dipika Kalra
Assistant Offline Editor - Suvrangshu Sarkar
Sound Designer - Tilak Goswami
Sound Associate Mixer - Ajinkya Padade
DI Colourist - Marco Spanu
Online Editor - Sagar Kadam
Asst Online Editor - Aakash Kulye, Naresh Malap
Accounts Team - Nirav Dama and Manish Nishad
Office Team - Pritam Mahadik and Sandesh More

02/04/2026

Superman UPI

Director - Ayappa KM
Executive Producer - Anand Menon

Client - Super Money
Founder, CEO - Prakash Sikaria
Marketing Head - Aditya Nair
COO - Premanshu Singh
Agency -Tilt Brand Solutions

DOP - Satchith Paulose
1st AC: Hamid Shaikh
Production Designer - Nimish Kotwal
Costume Stylist - Reedima Indulkar & Urvi Negandhi
Makeup & Hair Stylist - Abinash Patra (Bunty)
Line Producer - Shail Vora
Production Team - Gurdeep Singh Chadda, Thimmiah Karthamada, Dev Singh Bist
Chief AD - Naved Rizvi
DA - Abir Kasat
2nd AD - Aishwarya Chodankar, Mayank Keshwani
Asst Dir: Anupriya Verma
Casting - Navrattan Mehta
Sound - Zahir Bandukwala
Gaffer - Dharam
Focus Puller - Raju Baldoori
Key Grip - Javed Khan (Cine grips)
Costume Assistant - Alifiyah Bengali, Riva Paun
Dressman - Shabhaz
Art Director - Riyaz Shaikh
Set Dressers - Rudra, Samidha
Spot Team - Kamlesh & Team
DIT - Ram Rathod

Salman Khan Entourage
Manager - Sodhan Patel, Jodry Patel
Makeup Artist - Sudesh Naag
Stylist - Tarushka Kiit
Personal Digital Team - Saajan Singh
Driver - Ashok Singh, Rajesh Rodrigues
Spot - Madhav Yadav
Security - Jagraj Ghooman
Hairstylist - Imran Bagwan
Personal Boy - Salim Sheikh
Physiotherapist - Pratek

Post Producer - Vikram Solanki
Post Assistant- Rohit Yadav & Kartik Kamti

Offline Editor - Dipika Kalra
Assistant Offline Editor - Suvrangshu Sarkar
Sound Designer - Tilak Goswami
Sound Associate Mixer - Ajinkya Padade
DI Colourist - Marco Spanu
Online Editor - Sagar Kadam
Asst Online Editor - Aakash Kulye, Naresh Malap

Accounts Team - Nirav Dama and Manish Nishad
Office Team - Pritam Mahadik and Sandesh More

31/03/2026

Supermoney Bol Dia
Director - Ayappa KM
Executive Producer - Anand Menon

Client - Super Money
Founder, CEO - Prakash Sikaria
Marketing Head - Aditya Nair
COO - Premanshu Singh
Agency -Tilt Brand Solutions

DOP - Satchith Paulose
1st AC: Hamid Shaikh
Production Designer - Nimish Kotwal
Costume Stylist - Reedima Indulkar & Urvi Negandhi
Makeup & Hair Stylist - Abinash Patra (Bunty)
Line Producer - Shail Vora
Production Team - Gurdeep Singh Chadda, Thimmiah Karthamada, Dev Singh Bist
Chief AD - Naved Rizvi
DA - Abir Kasat
2nd AD - Aishwarya Chodankar, Mayank Keshwani
Asst Dir: Anupriya Verma
Casting - Navrattan Mehta
Sound - Zahir Bandukwala
Gaffer - Dharam
Focus Puller - Raju Baldoori
Key Grip - Javed Khan (Cine grips)
Costume Assistant - Alifiyah Bengali, Riva Paun
Dressman - Shabhaz
Art Director - Riyaz Shaikh
Set Dressers - Rudra, Samidha
Spot Team - Kamlesh & Team
DIT - Ram Rathod

Post Producer - Vikram Solanki
Post Assistant- Rohit Yadav & Kartik Kamti

Offline Editor - Dipika Kalra
Assistant Offline Editor - Suvrangshu Sarkar
Sound Designer - Tilak Goswami
Sound Associate Mixer - Ajinkya Padade
DI Colourist - Marco Spanu
Online Editor - Sagar Kadam
Asst Online Editor - Aakash Kulye, Naresh Malap

Accounts Team - Nirav Dama and Manish Nishad
Office Team - Pritam Mahadik and Sandesh More

30/03/2026

Navi Society Meeting
Director - Ayappa KM
Executive Producer - Anand Menon

Client: Navi (formerly Navi Technologies Limited)
Chairman: Sachin Bansal
Managing Director & CEO: Rajiv Naresh
Head of Brand: Sumanka Gandhi
Manager, Content: Krishna Sriram

Agency: Sideways
Leadership: Abhijit Avasthi, Sonali Sehgal
Creative Team: Viraj Nandivadekar, Chaitanya Joshi, Anish Das, Inaya Khan, Saurabh Kulkarni
Strategy: Siddharth Mohanty, Vaibhav Shivhare
Account Management: Nandita Das, Neal Kalianiwala, Tanaya Morye

DOP - Kartik Vijay
Production Designer - Manisha Khandelwal
Costume Stylist - Ashima Belapurkar
Makeup & Hair Stylist - Abinash Patra (Bunty)
Production Team - Rajesh H Shah, Nipun Almani, Gurdeep Chadda, Ajay Bhatia, Jeetendra Sonata, Shashikant
Shirsat
Chief AD - Sakshi Mehta
DA - Abir Kasat
2nd AD - Shadrach Fernando & Harshil Karia
Asst Dir: Anupriya Verma
Casting - Vaibhav ( Anti Casting)
Sound (Sync) - Stanley Mendonca
1st AC: Maulik Kamdar
Gaffer - Ramesh Sadrani
Key Grip - Rudra Veer Singh
Dressman - Zakir Shaikh
Art Director - Ramesh Mistry
Set Dressers - Tarannum Hussain
Spot Team - Kamlesh Mishra & Team
DIT - Ninad Jadhav
Post Production Crew
Post Producer - Vikram Solanki
Post Assistant - Rohit Yadav & Kartik Kamti
Offline Editor - Hina Saiyada
Assistant Offline Editor - Sujit Kanojia
Sound Designer - Tilak Goswami
Sound Associate Mixer - Brandon Fernandes
Music Director - Aditya Kapoor
DI Colourist - Nikola Mrdalj
Online Editor - Sagar Kadam
Asst Online Editor - Aakash kulye
Accounts Team - Nirav Dama and Manish Nishad
Office Team - Pritam Mahadik and Sandesh More

Lahori Zeera 2.0 by Abhinav Pratiman wins Bronze at Spikes Asia 2026.
17/03/2026

Lahori Zeera 2.0 by Abhinav Pratiman wins Bronze at Spikes Asia 2026.

10/03/2026

Phone Pe 'Pehelwan'

Director - Abhinav Pratiman
Executive Producer - Anand Menon
Producer - Amarjeet Phukan

Client - Phone Pe
Group Chief Marketing Officer, PhonePe: Amit Doshi
Head, Business Marketing, PhonePe Wealth: Vinay Chaudhary
Brand Marketing Manager, PhonePe Wealth: Mallika Dhawan
Media Lead: Pratheep Kumar

Agency - Ogilvy
President & Head of Office - Hirol Gandhi
Chief Creative Officer - Sukesh Nayak
Chief Strategy Officer - Prem Narayan
Creative Team
Executive Creative Director - Pratheeb Ravi
Executive Creative Director - Srijan Shukla
Senior Creative Director - Pritam Singh
Senior Creative Director - Rutuja Mali
Creative Director - Anubhav Ratan
Planning Team
Senior VP - Akhilesh Nath
Planning Director - Sanika Nagnur
Account Management Team
Associate President - Harsh Bhatt
Client Services Director - Chainali Kapoor
Group Account Manager - Sneha Batra
Senior Account Executive - Rutuja Kothurkar


Production Crew

DOP - Kavin Jagtiani
Production Designer - The Great Parade (Jyoti & Shravan)
Costume Stylist - Theia Tekchandaney
Line Producer - Subodh Gupta
Production Team - Rahul Kamti, Khyati Hooda & Amish Masrani
Production Assistant - Kartik Kamti
Chief AD - Naved Rizvi
DA - Siddhima Dubey
2nd AD - Yatharth Bhavsar, Sejal Randiwe & Wrutuja Sawant
Direction Intern - Anupriya Verma
Casting - TPW Casting
Makeup & Hair Stylist - Sara Capela
Sound - Stanley Mendonca
Focus Puller - Alok Parmar
Key Grip - Indra Bhushan Sharma
Gaffer - Mehmood Ali
DMX Operator - Rohit
Costume Assistant - Ankana Awasthi, Bahar Pal, Kinjal Maru
Dressman - Vivek Tiwari
Secondary Casting - Tiny Rising Talent
Art Assistants - Katha , Ananya Bhide, Shruti Oza, Paridhi Jain
Spot Team - Kamlesh & Team
DIT - Avnish Rai

Post Production Crew
Offline Editor - Avro Banerjee
Sound Designer - Tilak Goswami
Sound Associate Mixer - Brandon Fernandes
Sound and Mix studio - Boing Studio
Music Director - Karan Malhotra
DI Colourist - Sid Meer
Online Editor - Sagar Kadam
Online Assistant - Akash Kadam

Post Producer - Vikram Solanki
Post Assistant - Rohit Yadav & Kartik Kamti

Accounts Team - Nirav Dama and Manish Nishad
Office Team - Pritam Mahadik and Sandesh More

Sanju Ayappa on Film Craft Jury at The Clios Awards 2026.
08/01/2026

Sanju Ayappa on Film Craft Jury at The Clios Awards 2026.

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Mumbai
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