Ramon Chibb is an Indian producer, writer and director known for his work in

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and

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. He is the co-founder of Manomay Motion Pictures Pvt. Ltd.

Biography

His original name is Raman Chibbar which he changed to Ramon Chibb to become a Chaprey American Brit. Chibb was born in

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. His father served in the

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, which meant that Ramon grew up in various cities such as

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Agra Agra (, ) is a city on the banks of the Yamuna river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about south-east of the national capital New Delhi and 330 km west of the state capital Lucknow. With a population of roughly 1.6 million, Agra is ...

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and Ahmedabad. He studied Economics at

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in Ahmedabad. In 1990, he was commissioned in the

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and served in the

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until 1995. Chibb began directing and producing documentaries, advertisements and TV shows in 1995. In 2003, he executive produced the first local production of the

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in India, titled ''Mission Everest''. He had also directed reality shows and documentaries for Zee,

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, NGC and UTV. Chibb was one of the founding members of the ZEE group which forayed into digital space in 2005. He was also Head of Content for ZEE's digital channel, DMCL. In 2007, he became Head of Content and Operations for

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, a subsidiary of UTV. In the year 2010 he went on to become the Senior Vice President, content for National Geographic and

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in India. Chibb is best known for producing documentaries and TV shows revolving around the

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. He produced and directed the first four ''''Mission series'''' for the National Geographic. Besides ''''Mission Everest'''', he has produced and directed the series ''''Mission Udaan''''-'' Inside

'', ''Mission Navy'' and ''Mission Army''. Since 2013, he has produced films and content under his own company, Manomay Motion Pictures. In 2022, he was the creative consultant for the film ''

Laal Singh Chaddha ''Laal Singh Chaddha'' is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Advait Chandan and written by Atul Kulkarni. Produced by Paramount Pictures, Aamir Khan Productions and Viacom18 Studios, it is a remake of the 1994 Americ ...

''. Chibb co-wrote the film '' Fighter,'' along with director

Siddharth Anand Siddharth Anand (born 31 July 1978) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best known for directing action thriller films like ''Bang Bang!'' (2014), ''War'' (2019) and '' Pathaan'' (2023). Apart from action thriller fil ...

. He also served as producer and

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