About

A little bit of everything.A little bit of my own.

Karan Pawar with a camera in hand at a snowy mountain viewpoint

I’m Karan Pawar, an Ahmedabad-based creative professional working across advertising, design and filmmaking.

My work lives somewhere between thinking up an idea and figuring out how to make it real. As an Associate Creative Director, I work across concepts, campaigns, visual direction and content — bringing together words, images, design and moving frames to tell stories that connect with people.

Over the years, I’ve moved between different parts of the creative process: developing ideas, writing scripts, building visual worlds, planning shoots, working behind the camera and shaping the final edit. I enjoy making all these pieces come together as one coherent thought.

Outside my agency work, I make films of my own. I’m drawn to places, their histories, the people who shape them and the little details that are easy to miss when you’re just passing through. Through travel films, photography and short-form content, I experiment with a more personal kind of storytelling — one that isn’t always dictated by a brief.

Advertising has taught me how to communicate an idea. Making things independently has taught me how to follow one.

Both continue to shape the way I see, think and create.

I like ideas with a point of view, visuals with a purpose and stories that stay with you a little longer.

Work with me
The route so far

How I got here

Schools, film sets, agencies and two moves to Bombay. Scroll down and follow the trail.

Start
  1. Until 2010

    School

    Where it all started

    Three schools, one after the other.

    • Aadarsh School
    • Uma Shikshan Tirth
    • Gayatri Vidhyalaya
  2. 2010 — 2014· Baroda

    MSU Baroda

    Bachelor of Visual Arts

    Four years at the Faculty of Fine Arts, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.

  3. 2014 — 2015

    Yes Design Packaging

    Designer

    My first job, at my father’s packaging design studio.

  4. 2015 — 2016

    Budhan Theatre & Nomad Movies

    Social work, theatre and film

    Worked with Budhan Theatre, an NGO that does social work through theatre, while learning filmmaking from my mentor, the documentary filmmaker Dakxin Chhara, at his production house Nomad Movies.

  5. 2016 — 2019

    Feature films

    Assistant director

    My first feature was the Hindi film Sameer, in 2016. Then came three years of back-to-back films, with a few ads along the way.

    • Sameer
    • Passport
    • Shubh Aarambh
    • Mijaaj
    • Dhunki
  6. 2019 — 2020· Mumbai

    Bombay

    Independent cinematographer & editor

    Behind the camera on corporate videos and ad films, and on the edit for some of them too.

    • Livspace
    • Map Oil
    • T-Series
  7. 2020 — 2022· Ahmedabad

    Rioconn Interactive

    Advertising agency

    Covid brought me back to Ahmedabad, and into agency life.

    • Rasna
    • Tirupati Oil
    • Sunpride
    • Shilp Group
    • Swati Procon
    • Laxmi Dal
    • TGB
    • Pramukh
    • Sangini
    • and many more
  8. 2022 — 2023· Mumbai

    Sociowash

    Visualizer

    Back to Bombay, as a visualizer on two big client clusters.

    Viacom18
    • Fully Faltoo
    • KaanPhod
    • Comedy Central
    P&G
    • Oral-B India & Middle East
    • Ambi Pur
    • P&G Shiksha
  9. All along

    Walk & Talkies

    Travel films of my own

    Running alongside everything above: films and photographs of places, their histories and the people in them.

Tools

Photoshop / Illustrator / After Effects / Premiere Pro / Lightroom / DaVinci Resolve

Clients

Ambi Pur / Flamingo Travels / Rasna / Oral-B / Nour Diamonds / Fully Faltoo / KaanPhod / Tirupati Oil / Colors Gujarati / Swati Procon / Bakeri / UID / Sangini / Karnavati University / Shilp Group / Sunpride / Sheladia / TrustAid / The Leela / PIV / Wild Watchers / Devasya Hospital / Satvaras Juice / Street Dancer 3D / Map Oil / Livspace / T-Series / Laxmi Dal / TGB / Pramukh / Comedy Central / P&G Shiksha / Intro

In front of the camera
Karan Pawar on the Digital Push podcast

Talking design

Digital Push PodcastEp. 2 — Digital Evolution of Design in AdvertisingTVC · May 2025 · 50 min

I’m usually behind the camera, so sitting in front of one was a cool change. We talked about how design in advertising has moved from print to the feed.

  • Art vs design
  • Print to digital
  • Bauhaus & Swiss style
  • Brand consistency
  • Motion & attention
  • AI & Canva
  • Sustainable design
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