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Ritvik Asthana
Ritvik Dhirendra Asthana (born March 13, 1979) is an Indian filmmaker, Cartoonist, Vocalist, and performance artist. Asthana is the Founder/Director of MSFF [My Short Film Festival] and currently works as a Creative Director for TV channel in Mumbai, India. Asthana is known for his weird, bold and whacky imagination used in his work. Asthana's work is known for surreal, nightmarish and dreamlike images and meticulously crafted sound design.

Early life
Ritvik was born in Shahadara, New Delhi on March 13, 1979. His father, Dhirendra Asthana, is a bureau chief for Sahara Samay Mumbai and his mother, Lalita Asthana is a freelance Journalist. Intending to become an artist, Ritvik enrolled in the L.S.Raheja College of Applied Arts, in Mumbai for 5 years Degree Course.

Ritvik started his career in the year 2000 as Graphic Designer for Ecomedia, a web portal with a monthly salary of 3500 rs. Later he served INTERADS ADVERTISING as an Art Director, Tata Interactive Systems as a Visualizer, Hurix Systems as a Sr, Visualizer & enterr10 Television as Creative Director. during his time at enterr10 television Ritvik Produced 7 shows for the channel and several Promos. Being a hardcore rock music lover ritvik also organized many rock shows in Mumbai, Delhi and Pune and was featured in SPIN(USA), rock music magazine as Godfather of Indian Rock Scene.

Life With Cinema
Ritvik is currently working on his full length Movie which is schedule to start at the end of November 2014 and also have produced a show Rock-Vid-RA for his Channel which is highly popular among the indian rock circuit.