Bengaluru, India
ANIL
RALPH
THOMAS
Writer | Director
Advertising films built on human truth. Stories that earn their place in people's lives.
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Bengaluru, India
Writer | Director
Advertising films built on human truth. Stories that earn their place in people's lives.
01 — Films
48 Films
The texture of modern love — playful, negotiated, equal. Told through the small moments brands rarely notice but couples always remember.
Bonds that outlast trends. Films about what we owe each other — across generations, across distance, across time.
Children as protagonists. Films that find the extraordinary in the way children see, hear, and experience the world around them.
Product truths made funny. Each film earns its laugh by understanding the consumer — not just the category.
Films where the argument is the story. Characters who think out loud and win you over before you realise it.
Work that resists easy categorisation. Each film its own world.
51 Films
Stars in service of the story — not the other way around. Films where the celebrity's presence amplifies the brand truth rather than replacing it.
TVS Star City — Pyramid (MS Dhoni)
TVS Scooty — Scootygiri (Anushka Sharma)
TVS Scooty — Wedding (Anushka Sharma)
TVS Scooty — Dress Code (Anushka Sharma)
Titan Laurent Collection — Sculptor (Aamir Khan)
TVS Scooty Streak (Sania Mirza)
TVS Star City+ Teaser — Manager (MS Dhoni | Virat Kohli)
TVS Star City+ Teaser — Virat (MS Dhoni | Virat Kohli)
TVS Star City+ Main Film (MS Dhoni | Virat Kohli)
Titan Raga — Sitare (Rani Mukerji)
TVS Sport — Style Mileage (Virat Kohli)
TVS Sport — Bribe (Virat Kohli)
TVS Sport — Hospital (Virat Kohli)
TVS Star City — Daadi (MS Dhoni)
TVS Star City — Bridge (MS Dhoni)
TVS Star City — Bowling (MS Dhoni)
TVS Star City — The Test Bucket (MS Dhoni)
TVS Star City — The Test Push Up (MS Dhoni)
Fastrack Bikers Collection (John Abraham)
Tata Sonata — Wrists of Steel (MS Dhoni)
Tata Sonata — Alag Pehechan (MS Dhoni)
TVS Star City — Sister (MS Dhoni)
Young India at its most alive — irreverent, quick, honest. Films that didn't try to be cool. They just were.
ITC Bingo — Hatke Jhatke
Britannia Bourbon — The Date
Bourbon — Cappuccino
TVS Scooty Pep — Cop (Babelicious)
TVS Scooty Pep — Make Up (Babelicious)
Fastrack Watches — Yes Sir
TVS Sport — Bhai Ke Liye
Britannia 50-50 — Pickpocket
Britannia 50-50 — Rajini
Britannia 50-50 — Lawyer
Titan — Exchange Offer Promo
Britannia 50-50 — What It Eez
A range of work across categories and registers. Each film worth watching on its own terms.
Britannia Treat — Choco
Britannia Treat — Playpack
Britannia Choco Decker
Britannia Good Day — College
Britannia Good Day — Train
Britannia Good Day — Family Pack
Canara Bank
Titan Eye+ — Kuch Toh Hua
Tata Sonata Wedding Sale (Cafe)
Tata Sonata — Bus Stop
Tata Sonata — Pigeon
Extra Joss Blood TVC
Rakshak Condom
ITC Aashirwaad Select
Medimix Classic
TVS Apache RTR — Chase
Tiger — Lao Chocostic Pao
02 — About
ANIL RALPH THOMAS
“Great stories happen to those who can tell them.”
Anil Ralph Thomas has spent 28 years inside advertising from every angle — account management, brand planning, creative leadership, and now, ad film direction. Over 300 films written. 75+ directed. Metals at Cannes, Clio, AdFest Asia, Effies, and GoaFest.
He has led creative at The Thinking Machine Asia (CCO), McCann South India & South East Asia (RCD), Ogilvy (Sr. CD), and Lowe (CD). A polymath who never stopped moving — toward the work, toward the screen, toward the story.
03 — Contact
Happy to direct. Write scripts. Develop Campaigns.
anilthomas0673@gmail.com
LONG FORMAT: SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Films that use festive occasions as a lens to examine what we've broken — and what we still have time to fix. Each one a quiet intervention dressed as a celebration.
Holi — Parental Alienation
New Year — Societal Acceptance
Diwali — Old Parents & Estrangement
Diwali — Old Age & Isolation