R Balakrishnan
Chairman & Chief Creative Officer
R. Balki is Chairman and Chief Creative Officer with Lowe Lintas & Partners. Of the over 2 decades of being in this industry, he has spent the last 17 years at Lowe Lintas.
Balki has led and created landmark (almost folklore!) advertising for clients like Unilever, Maruti, Bajaj, Idea Cellular, ICICI Prudential, Tata Tea, Havell’s, Tanishq and many others.
In 2007, Balki made his directorial debut with his first Hindi feature film ‘Cheeni Kum’, and followed that up in 2009 with “Paa”. Both starring Bollywood’s biggest living legend – Amitabh Bachchan.
Both went on to be very popular films. And given Bollywood’s disproportionate presence in the lives of every Indian, Balki is unarguably amongst the better known “celebrities” of the Indian advertising industry.