Harish Sharma was born and brought up in
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh and gave 20 years of his life to cricket. He did his
schooling at the Sports College, Lucknow
and post-graduation from Pithoragarh.
He spent seven years, 1986-1992, as a
journalist of Hindi newspapers Aaj, Dainik Jagran and news agency PTI and
established a successful career in Pithoragarh – a hilly district in
Uttrakhand, which was then part of UP.
He decided to shift to Delhi in 1992 and
started a fresh struggle as a freelance journalist. He joined Jain TV part-time
followed by Hinduja IN Cable channel.
In 1996, he started his PR company and got
the first opportunity to do PR for the film Bade
Miyan Chote Miyan in Delhi and North India with Amitabh and Govinda in the
main lead. The next ten years were his golden years, and he did PR for more
than 500 movies, events and celebrities.
When he was the best PR, peaking in his
career, he left everything behind and shifted to Mumbai in 2007. He started
struggling again and enjoyed the new challenges.
In Mumbai, he did a lot of PR, but the goal
was to direct a film, so he produced a short film – Last Announcement – Aakhiri Munadi and directed a
documentary called A Soldier becomes a
Monk.
In 2012, his first supernatural feature
film, Two Nights in Soul Valley was released. In March 2017, he has shifted to
Hyderabad for two years for his daughter's education. He is also studying
Astrology at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
His
debut book was printed in both English
and Hindi. His next book Spot Fixing - NO BALL 2 CRORE
and 2O years of Entertainment PR will
release in 2018.