Ashok Meena was born and brought up in a small village in Rajasthan and saw the face of a
city only in his teens. He began his filmmaking journey in his early college days when he
travelled across the country with a camcorder, thanks to a job by an independent producer.
He later went on to study cinematography at the Film and Television Institute of India. He
trained further under the tutelage of auteur filmmaker Kamal Swaroop, as the
cinematographer of his film, Pushkar Puran. He has been keeping his passion for cinema,
more so for documentary films alive by collaborating on various independent projects. He has also shot several independent feature films, ads and music videos.