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‘India-The Big Picture’
CII- Media & Entertainment Summit 2012
29 – 30 October 2012: The Leela Palace, New Delhi
‘India-The Big Picture’ CII- Media & Entertainment Summit 2012
Arun Jaitley
Leader of the Opposition (Rajya Sabha)
Senior BJP leader
&
Former Union Minister
Arun Jaitley, currently Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha in Indian Parliament, is a distinguished
lawyer and prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In his prolific career as a lawyer and a
political leader, he has held many important positions and made significant contributions in the
areas of economic liberalisation, judicial reforms, electoral reforms and progressive social &
economic legislations,
Between October 1999 – July 2002 and January 2003- February 2004, Shri Jaitley was Minister in
the NDA Government at the Centre and held charge of the Ministries of Information and
Broadcasting; Disinvestment; Law, Justice and Company Affairs; Shipping; and Commerce &
Industry. He has been a member of the BJP National Executive since 1991 and held the posts of
its General Secretary and Spokesperson. He is currently the Leader of Opposition in Rajya
Sabha.
As a Minister, he has pioneered the disinvestment programme in the country, helped usher in the
new telecom policy, and brought about several legislative and judicial reforms. The Fast Track
Courts together with the reforms in the Civil Procedure Code and the Criminal Procedure Code
aimed at reduction of pendency of cases and faster disposal of cases have been the highlight of
his tenure as Law Minister. He also piloted comprehensive Company Law reforms and the law on
Competition to bring the corporate legal framework in tune with the liberalisation and
globalisation. On the personal law side, important changes were introduced in the law on divorce
and compensation and the landmark law on domestic violence was also enacted . The 84th
Constitutional amendment on Delimitation of Constituencies and the 91st Constitutional
amendment on capping the size of the Council of Ministers and banning the legislators who
defect from holding any Ministerial position were enacted during his time. The first
comprehensive law against Terrorism i.e POTA was passed in the Parliament for countering
terrorism. He steered the Indian Negotiations at the WTO during the challenging days in the runup to the crucial Ministerial meeting at Cancun in 2003. Under his leadership, a significant
breakthrough was achieved by the Indian negotiators by forging the new alliance of G-20 which
effectively countered the US-EU lobbies and brought the agenda of the developing world to the
centrestage
Arun Jaitley was born on December 28, 1952 and completed his schooling from St. Xavier
School, New Delhi. He graduated in Commerce from the Sri Ram College of Commerce, New
Delhi and obtained his LLB from the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi in 1977. As a student, he
was the recipient of several distinctions for his outstanding performance both in academics and
extra- curricular activities. He was President of the Delhi University Students Union in 1974 and
during the Emergency, was under preventive detention for 19 months for his outspoken
opposition to the draconian regime. Jaitley was a prominent member of the movement against
corruption launched by Late Shri Jai Prakash Narayan in 1973.
An ardent cricket follower, he heads the Cricket body DDCA which organizes the sport in Delhi.
He is married to Sangeeta Jaitley with two children.
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Uday Kumar Varma
Secretary
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Mr. Uday Kumar Varma is presently Secretary in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting since
20th October 2011. Prior to this, he was Secretary in the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium
Enterprises. He belongs to 1976 batch of IAS of the Madhya Pradesh Cadre.
Mr. Varma holds Masters Degree in Public Administration from the prestigious Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University, USA and is a Science (Honours) Graduate from Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi. He holds a Post-Graduate Diploma in French language.
He had a brilliant academic record and has been awarded Gold Medal for obtaining highest
position in the University, and another Gold Medal at the Lal Bahdur Shastri National Academy of
Administration on completion of his training.
Mr. Varma has served as District Magistrate and Collector in three districts of Madhya Pradesh,
namely, Panna, Mandla and Bilaspur and held positions of Director, Handlooms and Textiles,
Industries Commissioner, Commissioner, Women & Child Development, Tribal Commissioner
and Health Commissioner in the State of Madhya Pradesh. In Central Government, he has
worked at all levels including serving as Private Secretary to Union Ministers, and as Deputy
Secretary/Director in the Ministries of Rural Development and Human Resource Development.
He has served as Joint Secretary in Labour Ministry and as Additional Secretary and Special
Secretary in the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.
Mr. Varma has an outstanding career record.
He has authored two books which are on Labour related issues and has written scores of papers
which he has presented in various national and international forums.
In addition to command over English and Hindi, he has working knowledge of Sanskrit and
French.
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Sumit Bose
Secretary
Department of Revenue
Ministry of Finance
Sumit Bose is Secretary, Department of Revenue in the Ministry of Finance since 6th August,
2012.
He was educated at the Doon School, Dehradun and St. Stephens College Delhi (MA History).
He has also an MSc. in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics.
He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1976.
Prior to his appointment as Secretary(Revenue) he was Secretary(Expenditure) from 31st May,
2011, onwards. Earlier he was Secretary(Disinvestment) from 1st February, 2010 to 31st May,
2011. Prior to that he was Secretary in the Thirteenth Finance Commission, the Constitutional
body entrusted with the arrangements for revenue sharing between the Union and the States,
from August 2007 to January 2010.
In the State, from May 2004 to August 2007, he was the Principal Secretary (Finance) in the
Government of Madhya Pradesh during which period various reforms including fiscal
responsibility legislation, outcome budgeting, extensive use of the PPP mechanism, contributory
pension scheme was introduced in the State. He had also served as Deputy Secretary (FundBank) in the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, from
1984 to 1988 and as Secretary in the Finance Department in the State Government in 1993.
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R. Chandrashekhar
Secretary, Department of Telecommunications.
Ministry of Communications & Information Technology
&
Chairman
Telecom Commission
Mr. Chandrashekhar is presently Chairman of the Telecom Commission and Secretary in the
Department of Telecommunications in the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology,
Government of India. He is responsible for all matters relating to the Telecom sector.
He joined the Government of India in 1975 as a member of the Indian Administrative Service, the
country's premier civil service. Ever since, he has held a wide variety of key assignments many of
them relating to the ICT sector, both in the Government of India and the State Government of
Andhra Pradesh.
He is responsible for all aspects of policy formulation for the telecom sector in the country as well
as several aspects of regulation. Currently he is responsible for driving several key policies and
strategies covering licensing, spectrum management, National Broadband Plan, Convergence,
Manufacturing, Investment, security, R&D and the draft National Telecom Policy 2011.
As Secretary of the Department of Information Technology from June 2009 to September, 2010
and February, 2011 to March, 2012, (the latter period as an additional charge), he steered the
formulation of national policies for the IT sector and for promoting Electronic System Design and
Manufacturing and R&D in the Electronics and IT sector. He was also responsible for overseeing
implementation of a number of major national initiatives in the sector including the National eGovernance Plan, which he played a key role in designing and in formulating the Electronic
Service Delivery Act.
Earlier, he established the first Department of Information Technology in the country in the state of
Andhra Pradesh and was Secretary of the Department from June, 1997 to December, 1999. The
policies and strategies he formulated capitulated the state to the forefront of the country in the
sector and became a role model for several states and countries.
Mr. Chandrashekhar has extensive experience of formulating and implementing policies,
strategies and action plans to foster the growth of the IT industry covering the entire enabling ecosystem including infrastructure, Human Resource Development, e-governance and establishing
Public Private Partnerships. He has a deep understanding of the issues and problems related to
ICT project implementation in Government. He has rich first hand experience in pivotal positions
of the processes of liberalization, privatization and globalization both at the state and central
levels.
Mr. Chandrashekhar received a M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay and a M.S. degree in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State
University, USA.
He was conferred the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration for the year
2007-08. He has been conferred several awards including Data Quest Path Breaker of the Year
Award in 2005 and Distinguished Alumnus Award of IIT-Mumbai in 2010.
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Leela Samson
Chairperson
Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC)
Leela received the impulses for her growth as a dancer from Kalakshetra, Chennai, where she
was a student initially from 1961 to 1967, while also studying in the Besant Theosophical High
School. She graduated with a first class Diploma in Bharata Natyam by the time she finished
school. After a few years of college at Sophia in Mumbai, she returned to Kalakshetra between
1969 and 1975. She was awarded a Distinction in the Post Graduation Course and became a part
of the repertory company that travelled in India and abroad.
From 1975 to 1990, she taught at the Sriram Bharatiya Kala Kendra in Delhi where she
established a Bharata Natyam department. From 1990 to 2005, she taught privately in Delhi, and
choreographed a body of work called 'Spanda' known for its innovations in Bharata Natyam.
She enjoys the reputation of being a dancer who has excellent form in nritta and sensitive
abhinaya. Leela has travelled extensively and performed at leading festivals of dance in India and
abroad.
In 2005, she was appointed Director of the Kalakshetra Foundation, which she served till 2012.
During this period, her contribution to the institute was to bring back an integrity and dynamism in
performance and a widening of the academic scope of the dancer graduating from its portals.
Leela has served on the Board of several leading schools in Chennai such as Abacus and The
School run by the Krishnamurthy Foundation of India. She is on the academic council of the
National School of Drama, Delhi and is a member of the Heritage Studies Committee for the
Central Board of School Certification, India.
Two documentary films have been made on Leela – 'Sanchari' by Arun Khopkar and 'The
Flowering Tree' by Ein Lall.
Leela has written a few books – 'Rhythm in Joy' for Lustre Press in 1987, on the classical dance
forms of India, 'Rukmini Devi – a life' published by Penguin Viking in 2010, on the life of the
legendary founder of Kalakshera and a book for children on the classical dance forms of India for
the National Book Trust, besides writing a column for First City for several years while in Delhi.
Leela is the recipient of the Sanskriti Award in 1982, the Padmashri Award in 1990, the Nritya
Choodamani Award in 1997 and the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 2000.
In August 2010, she was appointed Chairman, Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, by the
President of India. The Sangeet Natak Akademi is an autonomous body that serves as the apex
body for dance, music and drama in the country.
In April 2011, Leela Samson was appointed Chairperson, Central Board of Film Certification. In a
country that releases one thousand two hundred feature films every year in different languages
and over five hundred documentaries, the new board under her leadership has attempted to steer
the country towards certification of films rather than censorship of them, thereby protecting the
artistic and creative spirit of that medium, while attempting to sensitize the masses of India to
recognize the choices they must make in regard to the films they see.
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Amit Khanna
Chairman
CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment &
Chairman
Reliance Entertainment
Amit Khanna is the Chairman of Reliance Entertainment, a part of Reliance Group.
He started his film career as an Executive Producer with Actor – Producer, Dev Anand's “NAV
KETAN” in 1971. He has written lyrics for 400 film & non-film songs including many all-time hits as
well as a dozen feature film scripts which include award winning films like SAARANSH. He also
directed India's first music video with Nazia & Zoeb Hassan in 1984. He pioneered Business
News on Indian Television. In 1980, he produced his first feature film “MAN PASAND". In the
Eighties, he wrote and directed critically acclaimed films "SHEESHAY KA GHAR" and "SHESH"
and several documentaries. One of the first independent Producers of TV programming in India,
Amit Khanna, set up PLUS CHANNEL in 1990, India's first entertainment conglomerate where he
produced 10 feature films, over 3000 hours of original TV programming and over 1000 music
albums in various genres and languages.
Amit Khanna has been involved with media since school. He has worked in Theatre, Radio,
Television, Journalism, Films and new Media. He is a pioneer in the Converged Media space. He
writes extensively on Media in various magazines and newspapers including Times of India,
Hindustan Times, Economic Times, DNA & Business Standard and several websites.
He is a Chairman - National Committee of Media & Entertainment of CII (Confederation of Indian
Industry) and Convergence Committee of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce
and Industry). He is a Member – Prime Minister's Committee on Information, Communication &
Entertainment (ICE), CII's Service Council and Advisory Board of the Forum d'Avignon, Paris. He
is the President – Earth Communications Office (an Environment - NGO). He was the President All India Film Producers Council, Film & Television Producers Guild of India Ltd., for three terms
and Vice President of Association of Motion Picture & TV Program Producers for 17 years and
continues to be on the Council of Management of the Guild.
He has been on the Governing Councils of the Film Institutes in both Pune & Kolkatta. He was the
first Indian to serve on the international Emmy's Jury. He has also been on the Jury of Film
Festivals and other Awards in India & abroad. Besides serving on various International,
Government and Trade organizations and Institutions, he has won several awards including three
National Awards for Films, Industry Leadership Award at Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles
(IFFLA), First Leadership Award at Indian Film Festival of Houston and a Life Time Achievement
Award for Television (UPTRON) and CMO Council Masterbrand, 2010,
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Shabana Azmi
Actor
&
Co-Chair
CII National Committee on M & E
Born to renowned leftist Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi and famous stage actress Shaukat Kaifi, Shabana
Azmi is an alumni of Film and Television Institute of India Pune and received a Diploma in Acting
along with being awarded the Gold Medal for the Best Student in Acting.
She made her debut in Shyam Benegal's Ankur in 1974 and came to be recognised as the face of
the parallel cinema in India. Simultaneously she also earned commercial success in mainstream
cinema. Satyajit Ray has called her “The finest dramatic actress in the country.”
A highly acclaimed actress, Shabana Azmi has acted in more than 140 Hindi films and several
International films. She has won the National Award for Best Actress five times with an
unprecedented hat trick of three of those in a row. She has also won several International Awards
such as the Best Actress Award at Chicago Film Festival for Fire and Taormina Arte for Patang,
Phnom Penh for Libaas, Toronto Reel World festival for Morning Raga. She has had countless
retrospectives of her films, the most prestigious being at The New York Film Festival.
Shabana Azmi is also a very respected social activist and works for the rights of women,
particularly the girl child, housing rights for slum dwellers, and is a vocal upholder of India's
secular liberal values.
She is the recipient of the International Gandhi Peace Prize, the Martin Luther King Rosa Parks
Chavez award at Michigan, the International Human Rights Award in France, The Crystal Award
at World Economic Forum, Davos amongst countless others. She is Visiting Professor at
Michigan University.
International Theatre Credits include lead roles at the National Theatre London and the
Singapore Repertory Theatre. She is presently working in Broken Images, Tumhari Amrita and
Kaifi Aur Main in India.
She was nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the President of India and is recipient of the Padma
Bhushan. She is married to noted scriptwriter, lyricist and Urdu poet Javed Akhtar.
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Chandrajit Banerjee
Director General
Confederation of Indian Industry
Chandrajit Banerjee is the Director General of Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Mr Banerjee has been with the CII for over 25 years and has been the Director General, CII since
May 2008.
Mr Banerjee is a Post-Graduate (MS) in Economics with specialisation on Economics of Planning
and Econometrics from the University of Calcutta. Earlier, he did his Graduation from St. Xavier's
College (Calcutta) in Economics (Hons).
As Director General, he is responsible for overall operations of CII.
Prior to his appointment as Director General, he held several senior positions in CII.
Mr Banerjee has been responsible for important areas of work including the Sectoral Verticals Manufacturing, Services, Agriculture and Life Sciences Sectors and the SMEs. He has led key
policy work of CII in the areas of Economic Policy, Financial Services and Corporate Governance
(he was also the First Executive Director of the National Foundation of Corporate Governance NFCG, an organization set up by the Ministry of Company Affairs, Government of India). He
continues to be in the Board of Trustees of NFCG as a Founder Trustee.
Earlier Mr Banerjee has served as Head of CII's regional operations in the Northern, Southern and
Western Regions.
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Over the years Mr. Banerjee has worked out of the CII-Headquarters in New Delhi for several
years and has also been based at Kolkata, Chennai, Mumbai, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad. He
was also in Bangalore to initiate the Centre of Excellence of the Indian Machine Tool
Manufacturers' Association (IMTMA), which is a state-of-the-art centre for training, conventions
and trade fairs.
Mr Banerjee is in various advisory committees of the Government of India. He is the Vice
Chairman of the Asia Pacific Chapter of UFI, The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry. He
is the Co-chairman of the Governing Council, Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre (OIFC), a not
for profit public private initiative of Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA) and CII, established
in 2007. He is a Member of the World Economic Forum' s Global Agenda Council on India. Mr
Banerjee is also a Member of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management (IIM),
Ranchi.
Mr Banerjee has been honored with the China-India Friendship Award by the Chinese Premier
Wen Jiabao for his contributions towards the development of bilateral ties between India and
China.
With 63 offices including 10 Centres of Excellence in India, and 7 overseas offices in Australia,
China, France, Singapore, South Africa, UK, and USA, as well as institutional partnerships with
224 counterpart organisations in 90 countries, CII serves as a reference point for Indian industry
and the international business community.
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Aloke Malik
Managing Director
ESPN Software India Pvt Ltd
In November 2010, Aloke Malik joined ESPN Software India Pvt Ltd as the Managing Director.
Aloke heads the management of the company, which oversees the distribution, sales and
marketing of its multi-media brands including ESPN, STAR Sports, STAR Cricket, STAR Cricket
HD, ESPN HD, ESPNEWS, espnstar.com, mobile ESPN and Event Management Group for the
South Asia region covering India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives.
Aloke joins ESPN Software India from Idea Cellular where he was the Chief Operating Officer of
the company's East Operations. Having worked with leading local and multi-national companies
such as ITC Limited, Pepsi, Reliance Retail, Madura Garments & Idea Cellular across India,
Aloke brings over 23 years of rich industry experience in general management, marketing, sales
& distribution across a wide range of industries and consumer groups and has worked in diverse
international markets such as Russia and Bangladesh.
Aloke holds a Post Graduate degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management,
Kolkata. An avid golf enthusiast, Aloke is married and has two daughters
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Ameet B. Naik
Founding Partner
Naik Naik & Company
Ameet B. Naik, the founding partner of Naik Naik & Company is recognized as a leading legal
practitioner in the areas of media & entertainment, corporate transaction support with focus on
mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets.
Ameet has been ranked, for three consecutive years (2009, 2010, 2011), as one of the leading
individuals in India in the field of Technology, Media and Telecommunications by Chambers and
Partners Asia Pacific.
He is also recommended by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
Ameet has led some of the larger outbound and inbound transactions in the TMT space.
He rolled out one of the biggest deal in the cinema exhibition business where Inox Leisure
acquired a majority stake in Fame India Limited.
He has also structured investment and production deals for over 200 feature films in India and has
also been involved in some of the major format licensing deals in the Indian television sector
amongst which are Big Boss, Fear Factor and KBC.
He has represented major Hollywood studios like Warner Bros. and Twentieth Century Fox in
the foremost litigation on copyright infringement in respect of remakes and Indian adaptations of
Hollywood films.
He has represented the producers of various popular Bollywood films in litigation pertaining to
release and exploitation of various films namely Dirty Picture, Raavan, Aashayein, Lafangay
Parindey, Action Replayy, 3 Idiots, Jail, Paath Shaala, Muna Bhai MBBS, Tanu Weds Manu,
Nishabd, Ghajini, Wanted and others in many territories of India.
He is also been involved in breakthrough litigation in copyright infringement related maters
representing clients like Percept Picture Company, Reliance MediaWorks Ltd., Moserbaer
India Ltd. and others.
Ameet also made a representation before the Select Committee in the parliament for the
amendment of the Copyright Act, 1957.
Ameet was an invitee as a panelist at the 18th Annual Conference of Inter-Pacific Bar Association
2008 (IPBA) to speak on 'Raising Money in the Entertainment Industry'.
He was also invited to the National Conference of Society of Indian Law Firms to speak on 'Legal
Issues in Media & Entertainment Industry'.
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Andy Kaplan
President, Worldwide Network
Sony Picture Television
Signifying the growing importance of the international marketplace to Sony Pictures' television
strategy, Andy Kaplan joined Sony Pictures Television International in September of 2002 as
Senior Executive Vice President, International Networks for SPTI.
In his position with SPTI, Kaplan is responsible for the management of over 35 international
networks throughout Asia, Europe and Latin America. Among the networks he oversees globally
are AXN, the action-adventure and lifestyle network seen in Asia, Latin America, Japan, Spain,
Portugal, Israel, and launched in 2003, AXN in Central Europe; Sony Entertainment Television
(SET) branded networks throughout Latin America, India and other international markets;
Animax, the first 24-hour network in Japan dedicated to popular animé, and Animax Asia,
launched in early 2004 with three dedicated, highly customized services for Taiwan, Hong Kong
and Southeast Asia. Part of Kaplan's mandate is to lead the expansion of SPTI's International
Networks portfolio by building new networks and brands worldwide. Kaplan also manages the
relationships with all international partner channel ventures, such as HBO in Asia, Central Europe
and Latin America; Showtime and Encore in Australia; and Cinenova in the Benelux. Additionally,
Kaplan manages SPE's interest in GSN (formerly Game Show Network), a channel that he
helped launch in 1994. Kaplan handles SPE's relationship with Liberty Media in this joint venture.
Kaplan is a 20-year entertainment industry veteran. He rejoined the Sony family in 2002 where he
rose up the ranks and served in senior management posts at Sony Pictures Entertainment's
(SPE) worldwide television divisions. While at Sony, Kaplan worked closely with top management
in developing the Television Group's strategic planning objectives and identifying new business
opportunities, including internationally based music, reality and game show cable channels as
well as original indigenous programming. Kaplan also played a pivotal role in the launch and
operation of SPE's satellite/cable network, GSN, and was instrumental in SPE's acquisition and
operation of, and was on the board of, the Spanish language network Telemundo.
Through his various management roles at Sony, Kaplan had an array of responsibilities. His
duties as EVP of the Worldwide Television Group included overseeing the studio's domestic and
international production and distribution divisions, its international satellite networks, Columbia
TriStar Interactive, Sony Online Entertainment and its family entertainment unit. Kaplan also
managed the studio's joint ventures and production partnerships with Proctor & Gamble, Brad
Grey Television, and Merv Griffin Enterprises, among others. Prior to becoming EVP, Kaplan was
responsible for overseeing the financial management and day-to-day operations of Columbia
Tristar Television, including all physical film and videotape production, program research, finance
and original and licensed music, and public relations.
After departing Sony where he served as Executive Vice President of SPE's worldwide television
division, Kaplan assumed the post of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of digital media
company, Hollywood Stock Exchange, where he was responsible for its worldwide operational
management including its strategic alliances with studios, networks, production organizations,
corporate sponsors and various new media content providers. Kaplan later served as an
entertainment and media consultant based in Los Angeles. His clients included Sony Corporation
of America, Lions Gate Entertainment, Liberty Media, Pearson Television and Galan
Entertainment, among others.
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Anil Kapoor
Actor
Anil Kapoor is one of India's biggest movie stars and one of international cinema's most prolific
and versatile actors. Through his offscreen role as a humanitarian and his stature as a prominent
cultural ambassador to Hollywood and the world, he has exceeded his already distinct reputation.
Born in the suburbs of Mumbai, India, on December 24, 1959, to film producer Surinder Kapoor
and his wife, Nirmal, Anil grew up surrounded by the burgeoning Mumbai film industry.
Against his father's wishes, Anil decided as a teenager to pursue acting as a profession, and
at age of 19 he landed his first role — sparking a career that would span 30 years (and counting),
with appearances in more than 150 films.
By the mid eighties, Kapoor had become one of India's most prolific, versatile and celebrated
actors. By continually reinventing himself in a series of roles, from unusual characters to
handsome leading men — while simultaneously delivering hit after hit — he earned an
affectionate nickname: “The Tom Cruise of India.”
Kapoor had amassed four Filmfare Awards (India's Oscars), a prestigious National Film Award for
his role in the film Pukar, and a massive and loyal Indian fan base — all by the time he first burst
into the American consciousness in 2008, playing the pivotal role of the quizshow host in
Danny Boyle's epic, Oscarsweeping hit, Slumdog Millionaire.
While Kapoor was recognized by his Hollywood counterparts with a Screen Actors Guild award
for that role, his actions behind the scenes quietly brought him an entirely different wave of
respect: Without fanfare, when he first signed on to the film, he donated his Slumdog salary to the
film's otherwise destitute Mumbai based child actors — paying for their education, for life, and
giving them a shot at escaping the real life slums from which Kapoor himself, thanks to the film
industry, had risen many years ago.
For a man who hosted the first ever fundraiser for Children's Right to Education in 2007; a man
who had worked toward the reconstruction of schools in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir after India's
devastating earthquakes that same year, it was a simple gesture.
Meanwhile, Kapoor expects to continue his behind the scenes work in a long and
successful career as a producer. Coming from a filmmaking family that has been producing
films for the last 50 years, he has produced over 30 films through his various family
owned production houses.
One of his ventures, Gandhi, My Father, explored the strained relationship between Mahatma
Gandhi and his eldest son Harilal, and won three Special Jury National Awards in 2007.
In 2010 he produced Aisha (based on Jane Austen's Emma);
Kapoor is especially proud to see his legacy carried on by his family: Actress Sonam Kapoor
(Anil's daughter with jewelry designer Sunita Kapoor, his wife since 1984) Kapoor's second
daughter, Rhea, is a film producer in Mumbai; and his youngest, Harshvardhan, has recently
returned to India after studying screenwriting at Chapman University California.
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Anil Srivatsa
CEO & Co-Founder
Radiowalla Network Pvt. Ltd
Anil Srivatsa, is the CEO & Co-Founder of Radiowalla Network Pvt Ltd. He has recently started
this venture to pursue his passion for the radio airwaves as a radio professional and a radiowalla.
As CEO and Co-Founder of Radiowalla Network Pvt Ltd, he aims to take radio to a new level using
the very democratic Digital distribution.
He was earlier the Chief Executive Officer of Kings XI Punjab an IPL Cricket franchise team, an
editor and publisher of Blossom City, Bangalore, first city magazine, the Chief Operating Officer of
Radio Today broadcasting, Executive Vice President at ImaginAsian TV, Director of worldwide
Marketing and Public Relations for RTV UK.
From incubator of a new media company that used IPTV technology to deliver niche television
channels using the public internet, Director of Cricket and South Asian Programming at Kelly
Broadcasting Systems, his career is a mosaic of the eclectic and the creative. He has won the
award of, The Radio Person of the yearin 2007, the Limca Book of Records entry in 2003, Cable
Ace Award nomination for the Docudrama on TV 'Medical Detectives' .He is also a columnist and
an ardent movie critic, a DJ and a model. His passion includes running the marathon, dancing and
playing.
By using the Digital medium, Radiowalla Network, aims to bring change in thoughts and attitudes
among the evolving Indian men and women .Radiowalla serves special interest content to special
interest groups ushering an era of democratization, availability of content in an otherwise closed
domain.
He is member of free mason Society, a Rotarian and a humanitarian and is involved in the thought
evolution process towards change in society beginning with the 'Change in 'ME' before the 'us'. A
Criminologist by education and a special Police officer for 2 years, he was a motivational speaker
on how to go GET what life offers rather than waiting to TAKE what it does.
See more at http://www.spotradio.in and http://www.radiowalla.in
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Anuj Gandhi
CEO
Indian Cast
Anuj Gandhi is Group CEO of IndiaCast, a joint venture between TV18 and Viacom18, since
March 2012. Aiming to expand the bouquet of the group's channels across geographies and
distribution platforms, Anuj Gandhi is also responsible for overseeing the network's development
as well as the subscription revenues. He has decades of experience in this field.
He was a Media Consultant for media related projects in Cable TV, Mobile and Internet, Anuj
Gandhi has consulted for various distinguished companies. Prior to this, Anuj occupied the
esteemed post of CEO at Den Networks Ltd, where his responsibilities included setting, building
India's largest Cable TV company, systems and processes, negotiations and setting up a joint
venture with Star India called Star Den Media services. He manages staff over 500 people.
Earlier, he was President of Set Discovery Pvt Ltd, a joint venture he spearheaded between Sony
Entertainment and Discovery Communication, growing revenues by an enormous 600% in 5
years. Additional designations include director of the Distribution and Network development
department of Discovery Communications India, Deputy General Manager at Indusind Media &
Communication and Hinduja Group Team Member of the Hinduja Group Media Company.
Having been named the Best Distribution Head in 2005 and Best Distribution Executive in 2002,
Anuj Gandhi was also a member of the Digitisation Committee set up by TRAI, and a Member of
the Task Force. A graduate from the SP Jain Institute of Management in Management Studies,
Anuj's other interests include travelling to non-commercial destinations, listening to music or
reading. An avid movie watcher, Anuj also maintains interests in sports.
With is a distinct understanding of the industry and the intricacies of it, Anuj Gandhi is well-placed
to handle the group's expansions and to create new platforms for content distribution.
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Anurradha Prasad
Chairperson and MD
B.A.G. Networks
Anurradha Prasad is the Chairperson cum Managing Director of the prestigious 360 degree
media company B.A.G. Films & Media Ltd. From a young journalist to one of the most
recognizable media personalities in the country- Anurradha has traced a successful journey in her
two decade long career.
After completing a Master's degree in Political Science from Delhi University Anurradha Prasad
ventured into the media industry with an assignment in a popular business magazine. Having
discovered a flair for media and journalism here, Anurradha went on to work in many different
positions in the industry, writing, producing and working both behind the scenes as well as in front
of the camera. Soon she decided to create television programs that she strongly believed in by
starting out on her own. The year 1993, saw Anurradha launch B.A.G Films & Media Ltd (then
known as B.A.G Films Ltd), her own production house where she created memorable
programmes like Poll Khol, Red Alert and Sansani on Star News, Kumkum and Khullja Sim-Sim
on Star Plus, Sidhhant on Star One, Dahhej on 9X, Ek Thi Rajkumari on Zee Next, Har Dil Jo Love
Karega on Zoom, Sapno ke bhanwar mein on Life ok, Madhubala on Colors Tv, Rozana and
Khabrein Bollywood Ki on Doordarshan.
In 2007, Anurradha launched an umbrella brand Broadcast 24 under which she launched 'News
24'; a 24-hour News channel that is today the fastest growing Hindi news channel in the country.
In March 2008, under the same brand she launched India's first Bollywood news channel E 24.
Anurradha heads a successful radio network Dhamaal 24- a 24-hour radio network on air now at 9
stations across the country. Besides this, she continues to run the very successful production arm
of B.A.G. Films Studio 24. She also reaches out to aspiring media professionals with The
International School of Media and Entertainment Studies (iSOMEs), a school dedicated to
teach and train media professionals of tomorrow. She has kept pace with technology and has her
channels present on cyber space through her web network B.A.G. Convergence. With all this
and her forthcoming ventures, Anurradha has led B.A.G Films & Media Ltd to become a 360
degree Media Company recognised as a prestigious media company in India.
Anurradha has kept pace with changing times and technologies. She shares aspects of her life
with her audiences and well wishers on www.anurradhaprasad.com, appreciates and interacts
with them through her website.
For her immense contribution to Indian Television, Anurradha has won accolades and awards
over the years. She is a member of CII and FICCI Entertainment Committee. She is on the board
of Uttaranchal Film Development Council, and is an executive member of Film Producers Guild of
India.
Anurradha is an avid reader and a music lover and likes to spend time with her family and loved
ones.
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Arjun Appadurai
Goddard Professor of Media, Culture & Communication
New York University
Arjun Appadurai is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at New York
University. He has also taught at Yale, The University of Chicago, The New School and The
University of Pennsylvania. He is also Tata Chair Professor at the Tata Institute of the Social
Sciences (Mumbai) and has been an adviser to many international organizations such as
UNESCO, the World Bank, the Ford Foundation, and the Forum D'Avignon in France. He is a
world reknowned authority on globalization and is the author of numerous books and articles on
media, urbanization and migration.
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Aroon Purie
Chairman & Editor-in-Chief
India Today Group
Aroon Purie is the founding Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of the India Today Group, India's most
respected and diversified media conglomerate. The Group has 36 magazines including editions
of leading international titles. It also has four leading 24-hour news channels including the largest
Hindi news channel with an audience of 60 million viewers, 7 radio stations, a newspaper, a
consumer e-com shopping portal and a stake in India's leading car portal.
An alumnus of the London School of Economics and a qualified Chartered Accountant.
Aroon has served on the Board of many prestigious institutions in India and abroad. He was
Chairman of FIPP (The International Federation of the Periodical Press) from 2009 to 2011 and
was the first Asian to be given this honor.
A true pioneer, Aroon has been instrumental in changing the face of journalism in India and was
awarded the Padma Bhushan – amongst India's highest civilian honours – by the President of
India in 2001.
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Ashwini Nachappa
Athlete
Represented India at International level
South Asian Federation Games
1984 – Nepal ; 1986 – Bangladesh ; 1988 – Pakistan
Asian Games
1986 – South Korea ; 1990 – Beijing, China
World Athletics Championship
1987 – Rome ; 1991 – Tokyo
24th Olympic games
1988 – Seoul, South Korea
Asian Track & Field Championship
1985 – Jakarta, Indonesia ; 1987 – Singapore ; 1989 - New Delhi ; 1991 – Malaysia
International Invitational Meet
1988 – Germany
Invitational Permit Meet
1997 – New Delhi ; 1999 – New Delhi
National level Achievements in All India Open Nationals
1981 : Bangalore(gold medal – 100mts)
1982 : Calcutta(Gold medal – 100mts,200mts and Silver medal in Long Jump)
1983 : Calicut(silver – hurdles and 100mts)
1987 : Mangalore (Gold – 100mts,Silver – 200mts and Gold – Relay)
1987 : Kanpur(Gold – 200mts)
1988 : Madras (Gold-200mts)
1990 : New Delhi(Gold – 200mts, Silver – 100mts)
1991 : Calcutta(Gold-100mts,200mts,400mtsand Relay)
Awards Conferred
1986 : THE SPORTSWRITERS AWARD (Best sportsman of the year)
1987 : THE DASARA AWARD (Karnataka State Award)
1990 : RAJYOTSAVA AWARD (KARNATAKA –Highest award of the State)
1990 : THE ARJUNA AWARD (India's most coveted award for the best sportsperson)
1991 : SPORTSWRITERS AWARD (Best sportsperson)
1992 : THE SPIRIT OF EXCELLENCE AWARD by the Vice-President of India
1993 : THE SHIROMANI VIKAS AWARD
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Ashwini also acted in 5 Telegu movies including a movie on a sportswoman “ASHWINI”.
In 2003 joined as Trustee of Parikrma Humanity Foundation an organization which provides
health care, nutrition and Education.
In 2004, Ashwini launched the Karuambiah's Academy for Learning and Sports (KALS), an
ISCE affiliated school
A state-of-the-art sporting program- “Ashwini's Sports Foundation” (ASF), is being
developed to nurture sporting excellence.
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Atul Singh
President & CEO
Coca-Cola India and South West Asia
Atul Singh is the President & CEO of Coca-Cola India and South West Asia Business Unit, a
responsibility that he took over on September 1, 2005. He is responsible for Coca-Cola's
operations in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and the Maldives.
Under his stewardship, Coca-Cola's business in India has made strides in all facets of its
operations and has reported twenty five consecutive quarters of growth of which nineteen
quarters have registered double digit growth.
Atul joined The Coca-Cola Company in 1998 as Vice President, Operations of
Coca-Cola, India Division. He led the Franchise Operations and Key Accounts group of the India
Division from 1998 to 2001. Atul then moved to China and served as the President of the East,
Central and South China Division. Under his leadership, mainland China operations were among
the fastest growing Coca-Cola businesses.
Atul is an independent Director on the Board of Bata India Ltd and has also been appointed as a
Director on the Board of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Saudi Arabia and The Coca-Cola
Bottling Company of Egypt. He is on the Board of AMCHAM India and has been its past Chairman
on two occasions. Atul is also the Chairman of the Sports Committee of Confederation of Indian
Industry (CII) having earlier chaired CII's National Committee on Rural Development and the
National Committee on CSR. He is a part of the National Executive of Federation of Indian
Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), having earlier led the Sports Committee of FICCI
for three years.
Atul is a member of the Advisory Board of AIESEC, the world's largest student organization and a
member of the Young Presidents' Organization, a global body dedicated to creating 'Better
Leaders through Education and Idea Exchange'. He is also on the advisory board of Catalyst, a
leading global non-profit membership organization founded in 1962, focused on expanding
opportunities for women and business. With more than 500 preeminent corporations as
members, Catalyst has been contributing towards women's progress in the workplace over the
last five decades
Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Atul worked with The Colgate Palmolive Company for 10 years and
held several key positions including Country General Manager, Nigeria (1995-1998), Finance
Director and then Country General Manager, Romania (1992-1995) and Finance Manager, Body
Care Division, USA (1990-1992). Before joining Colgate, Atul worked as an Auditor with Price
Waterhouse in New York.
Atul is an alumnus of the prestigious St. Xavier's College of Kolkata, India from where he majored
in Commerce (Honors). Atul holds an MBA degree from Texas Christian University, USA.
He has lived and worked in the four continents of Asia, Africa, Europe and North America.
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Bea Knecht
Co-founder & Chairman
Board of Zattoo
Bea Knecht is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Zattoo. Prior to co-founding Zattoo, Bea
built banking, HR, and datacenter automation software for large banks, enterprise software
providers and a Silicon Valley startup and served as associate partner at a strategy consulting
firm. Bea holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of California (Berkeley) and an MBA
degree from IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Bharat N. Anand
Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
Bharat N. Anand is the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business
School. He is the founding co-chair of Harvard's executive education program on media strategy,
and recently served as head of the required strategy course for all Harvard MBA students. His
research expertise is multi-business strategy and media/entertainment strategy. He has written
over forty five articles and case studies, many in the top journals in economics, strategy, and
marketing, and his work has been profiled in various media outlets. His current research projects
include price bundling of print and digital offerings, newspaper paywalls, and competition among
cable news networks. He has consulted to a range of global media organizations, and is currently
writing a book on reinvention in the media industry. Professor Anand received an undergraduate
degree in economics from Harvard College, a PhD in economics from Princeton University, and is
a two-time winner of the “best teacher award” at Harvard Business School.
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David Hill
Senior Executive Vice President
News Corporation
David Hill joined FOX Sports in December 1993 when News Corp wrested the rights to the National
Football League from CBS and he was charged with building a network quality sports division,
literally from the ground up. The legendary NFL television analyst John Madden, once on board at
FOX , christened it “FOX Sport,” as the only property in the portfolio initially was the NFL. Following
the highly successful launch of the NFL on FOX, with its 'Same Game – New Attitude' approach and
revolutionary FOXBox constant score and time graphic, the National Hockey League was added,
and with it came the FOXTrax glowing puck, two early production enhancements which became the
hallmark of FOX Sports under Hill.
Working closely with Chase Carey, Hill next started the Fox Sports Net, a hugely successful regional
sports network business, and was then moved to run the Fox Network, which was at the time
languishing in a poor #4 position. With shows like David E. Kelly's Ali McBeal, Seth McFarlane's
Family Guy, and the introduction of serial reality shows such as When Animals Attack, the Network
quickly assumed the #2 position, #1 in the demo. Hill continued running FOX Sports, which by then
was blossoming, now carrying MLB, Super Bowls, Stanley Cup Finals, World Series and was
legitimately “FOX Sports,” which has been America's #1 sports network for 14 consecutive years.
When DIRECTV, the world's largest satellite distribution systems became a News Corp subsidiary,
Hill worked under CEO Chase Carey as President of the DIRECTV's Entertainment Division
overseeing programming services and the integration of new technologies.
He returned to FOX after relinquishing his DIRECTV role, assuming the position of Chairman and
CEO of the FOX Sports Media Group, which is News Corp's U.S. based sports group which includes
FOX Sports, FOX Sports Networks, SPEED, FUEL TV, FOX Soccer, FOX Deportes, the Big Ten
Network and the hugely popular FOXSports.com, which in August 2012 set a record for monthly
traffic totaling 46 million unique users.
Hill has been hailed as a visionary, credited with launching US sports television into a modern age.
In short order, and despite initial skepticism, the FOXBox became a ubiquitous staple for all sports
broadcasts, and Hill is named on the patents for the yellow first down marker for football, the glowing
puck, and baseball's in-base microphones.
In his current role as Senior Executive Vice President, News Corp., he focuses on programming,
marketing, digital initiatives and other opportunities utilizing his extensive television experience and
expertise over the world wide breadth of the Company's operating units.
He began his career with News Corp. in 1988 when he helped launch Sky Television, Britain's first
satellite distributed television service. He then became Executive Producer of Eurosport – Europe's
first pan European sports service, and then launched Sky Sports, which with the addition of the
English Premier League, became a powerhouse part of what is now British Sky Broadcasting.
Hill began working in sports when Kerry Packer appointed him Executive Producer of his World
Series Cricket telecasts, and he worked closely with Packer on the development of a number of
television properties as Vice President/Sports at the National Nine Network in Australia. Prior to that
Hill, worked as a television news anchor and documentary maker with various Australian networks,
after starting as a 17 year old copy boy at a Sydney newspaper, the Daily Telegraph.
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Deepak Jacob
President & General Counsel, Head Legal & Regulatory
Star India
Deepak Jacob is currently the President & General Counsel of Star TV group in India. He is
responsible for all legal & regulatory matters that impact Star's businesses in India. He also
manages the government relations portfolio along with the CEO for Star and is the point person
for all policy and strategic matters involving the government of India & the regulators.
Deepak is one of the members of the Joint Task Force (JTF) constituted by the Ministry of
Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, for the phase-wise implementation of the
digitalization roadmap of the cable TV sector in India. He is also nominated on the Board of
Broadcast Content Complaint Council (BCCC), which is the self-regulatory body, for regulation of
content for non-news and current affairs television channels in India.
As a lawyer, he has rich and varied work experience across a variety of industry sectors such as
Media, Telecom, Information Tech and ecommerce businesses. His prior roles have been as the
head of Legal for eBay India where he was responsible for all India related Legal, Regulatory
&Law Enforcement issues. He also has done a 3 year stint in the telecom sector as Senior Legal
Counsel at Reliance Infocomm Ltd, in the Broadband & Corporate Wireless division. Prior to
joining the corporate sector he practiced as a litigation lawyer in the Delhi courts for over 6 years
and did a 3 year stint as a corporate lawyer with a leading law firm in Delhi.
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Gauri Shinde
Film Maker
A Pune girl, Gauri has always been inclined towards the performing arts. She started her career in
advertising as a copywriter. She found her calling in film when working in Lowe Lintas, one of
India's leading advertising agencies. To realize her potential better, she then took a sabbatical to
study at the New York Film Academy, concluding it with her very first short film “Oh Man”. This won
her much critical acclaim at various international film festivals including the prestigious Berlin
International Film Festival in 2003.
Based on this short film, she was given her first chance at directing an ad film– the instantly loved
and unforgettable “matching-matching” Fair and Lovely commercial and there has been no
looking back for Gauri since. The director for several memorable commercials for Axis, Tanishq,
Havells, Bajaj, Bank of India etc., Gauri is best known for her skill in telling simple stories. Her
understanding and narratives of everyday people has been her forte, and what she loves to do
best as well!
EDUCATION
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Post Graduation in Masters in English Literature Poona University, India
Masters Diploma in Mass Communication Symbiosis Insitute Poona, India
Diploma in Filmmaking From New York Film Accademy NYC, USA
Diploma in French From The Alliance Francais India
FILMOGRAPHY
Directed “English Vinglish”
Directed Short Film “Oh Man!”
Directed Short Film “Y Not?”
Directed Over 75 Ad Films For Well Known Brands
Documentaries On Kashmir, Leh & Ladakh
INVITED TO
The Berlin Film Festival 2003
Stuttgart Film Festival
River to River Florence Film Festival
Femme Fatale Womens Film Festival
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Gopal Jain
Advocate
Supreme Court
Admitted to the Indian Bar in 1992.
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Chambers of Soli Sorabjee, Attorney General of India (4 Yrs.)
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M.A. (Oxon), Jurisprudence – University of Oxford.
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Experience: Linklaters & Paines, City Solicitors, London.
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Studied Law at the University of Oxford and have a Master's degree in Jurisprudence.
On returning to India he joined the Indian Bar in 1992 and worked in the Chambers of
Kapil Sibal. He then joined the Chambers of Soli Sorabjee, Senior Advocate and former
Attorney General of India.
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Areas of Practice: Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution.
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Clients represented: Tata Steel, Jindal Group (JSW), Tata Motors, Tata Industries Ltd.,
Clough Engineering Ltd. [CEL], Monnet Group, Hindustan Times, Raheja Group, NDPL,
BBC Worldwide, Coke, Pfizer, General Electric, ICICI Bank Ltd., ICICI Prudential Life
Insurance Company, Oil and Natural Gas Commission [ONGC], Mitsubishi Corporation,
Pearson Educational Inc., Ranbaxy, ABN Amro Bank, Philips India Ltd., India Hotels,
Harper Collins Publishers Pvt. Ltd., Proctor & Gamble, Leela Kempinski Hotel Ltd.,
Mahindra & Mahindra, Eureka Forbes, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Bombay Dyeing,
LG Electronics India Pvt. Ltd., Electrolux Kelvinator Limited, Gannon & Dunkerley,
Godrej & Boyce, Colgate Palmolive India Ltd., Hindustan Lever, Shinetsu Chemicals,
Japan, Britannia Industries Ltd., Auto Desk Inc. USA, Essar Power, Essar Oil, Microsoft
Inc., Lafarge, Eurosports, GPCL, Verizon, DELL, Dow Chemicals, TVS Motors, General
Electric, Vemagiri, Verizon etc.
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Group, the Jindal Group and the Monnet Group.
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Represented Karnataka Steel Manufacturers Association in a recent case where the
Supreme Court had banned mining in Karnataka.
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Appeared in the first case filed in the Delhi High Court in the Coal de-allocation matter.
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Harish Thawani
Executive Chairman
Nimbus Communications
Harish Thawani is an Economics Graduate from the Bombay University. He started his career in
advertising and worked in Account Management at Lintas (now Lowe Lintas) and Chaitra (now
Leo Burnett) and moved on to marketing research briefly, before founding NIMBUS
Communications Limited. His passion for the creative arts saw him ideate and produce some of
the biggest television hits at Nimbus. His participative background in sports fuelled Nimbus to its
position as the leading sports marketing agency in the region. Equally at home in all areas of the
media and entertainment value chain: creative, production, finance, marketing and technology,
he is amongst the small sub set of Indian media entrepreneurs that is cultural chameleon,
blending easily into the work cultures of the East and the West. He is an avid sportsman, hi-fi buff,
blues music fan, and cinephile.
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Harit Nagpal
MD & CEO
Tata Sky Ltd.
Harit Nagpal is the Managing Director & CEO of Tata Sky Ltd., a joint venture of the Tata Group,
Newscorp and Temasek.
He is also the President of the DTH Operators Association of India.
Before joining Tata Sky in August '10 he was the Group Marketing Director of Vodafone plc based
at Vodafone's global head quarters in London.
Harit followed his graduation in Chemical Engineering with an MBA from FMS at Delhi which he
completed in 1985. In addition to the 9 years with Vodafone, in India and the U.K., during his 26
years of professional career, he has previously worked with Shoppers Stop, Pepsi, Marico and
Lakme in various leadership positions in fields like Sales, Exports, Operations and Marketing.
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Harsha Bhogle
Indian Cricket Commentator
A review in the Indian Express called Harsha Bhogle the voice of Indian cricket and that is a
description that has stuck. He gave up a promising career in management to devote himself fully
to cricket and has achieved a fairly regular international presence on both radio (with the ABC and
BBC among others) and television. He has been the front man for the telecast of live cricket into
India on ESPN and Star Sports for several years now and also writes extensively on the game.
Apart from regular columns in leading newspapers and magazines, Harsha has also written two
books: one on India's cricket tour of England and the other, the authorised biography of
Mohammad Azharuddin, published by Penguin India. A new book from the Indian Express and
Penguin (Out of the Box), a collection of the best of his columns has just been published. Apart
from presenting several cricket programs, Harsha hosted the hugely popular School Quiz
Olympiad and his own chat shows Harsha Online and Harsha Unplugged on ESPN. He is one of
the most recognised faces in India and has now covered over 90 test matches and 400 one-day
internationals apart from the football World Cup. He has hosted the final of the first two t20 World
Championships and presented a travel show (Travel India) on BBC World.
Harsha was voted by Gentleman Magazine as one of “50 men you want to know better” and by
Outlook as one of eight people who have changed the way their profession is perceived. Has also
been the subject of special profiles in India Today, The Week, Cosmopolitan and a very large
number of other publications. He was featured by BBC World in their series “Face to Face” on
Young Achievers. Harsha has also won Hero Honda 's Indian Television Academy award twice
and the Ceat Cricket Ratings award , both awarded to the best television commentator and
presenter and the ITA awarded him the Sports Personality of the Year Award for 2008. He has also
been presented the Rajiv Gandhi Award for outstanding work in the media. In an internet poll in
Australia in 2003-04, he was voted the best commentator across radio and television. When
ESPN Star Sports wanted to launch a talent search, they thought it would achieve legitimacy and
appeal if it was called “Hunt for Harsha” for he has now become synonymous with his profession.
The Hindustan Times, in a recent feature, called him “the greatest icon of cricket commentary”
and in a reader poll he was voted the most popular commentator. He was asked by the Mumbai
Indians franchise at the IPL to be their cricket advisor and in a worldwide internet poll on the
popular cricket portal Cricinfo he was voted the most favourite cricket commentator.
On another front, he and his wife Anita run a successful corporate speaking enterprise Prosearch
Consultants, which does sessions for companies on lessons from sport for managers. It is called
“The Winning Way” and has received well over 300 invitations. Harsha and Anita have also coauthored a book by the same name “The Winning Way Learnings from sport for managers” which
has become a bestseller.
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Jahnu Barua
Film Maker
Nine times National Award winner Jahnu Barua got major national as well as international
recognition through his third film HALODHIA CHARAYE BAODHAN KHAI (The Catastrophe) that
won the National Award for the Best Film (Golden Lotus) in 1988 and several international
recognitions including the Grand Prix Silver Leopard and World Ecumenical Award at the Locarno
International Film Festival, Best Film at Amien International Film Festival, and Best of Asia at the
Tokyo International Film Festival.
His film HKHAGOROLOI BOHUDOOR (It's a Long Way to the Sea) has won the National Award
for the Best Director (Golden Lotus) in 1995, and 15 international awards including World Peace
Prize at Chicago International Film Festival, and Best Director at the International Film Festival of
Independent Film Makers at Brussels. His recent film Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara (I did not kill
Gandhi) has been contemporarily one of the most critically acclaimed films.
Presently, Jahnu is planning his first international co-production project HOMING PIGEONS.
Jahnu Barua has been conferred PADMA SHRI by the President of India in 2003, and Kamal
Kumari National Award for Culture in 2004.
The Filmography
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Aparoopa (1982)
Papori (1986)
Halodhia Choraye Baodhan Khai (the Catastrophe, 1988)
Banani (the Forest, 1990)
Firingoti (the Spark, 1992)
Hkhagoroloi Bohu Door (it's A Long Way To The Sea, 1995)
Kuhkhal (the Price Of Freedom, 1998)
Pokhi (and The River Flows, 1999)
Konikar Ramdhenu (ride On The Rainbow 2002)
Tora (2003 – Children Film)
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara (i Did Not Kill Gandhi, 2006 –in Hindi)
Har Pal (2009 – Hindi) And Baandhon (waves Of Silence, 2012)
Pokhi (and The River Flows, 1999)
Konikar Ramdhenu (ride On The Rainbow 2002)
Tora (2003 – Children Film)
Maine Gandhi Ko Nahi Mara (i Did Not Kill Gandhi, 2006 –in Hindi)
Har Pal (2009 – Hindi) And Baandhon (waves Of Silence, 2012)
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Javed Akhtar
Lyricist & Member of Parliament
(Rajya Sabha)
Javed Akhtar's lineage can be traced back to seven generations of famous Urdu poets, writers and
freedom fighters. His body of work can be categorized under four distinct categories:
a) Script Writer b) Lyricist c) Poet d) Activist
Awards: Films
5 National Awards by Government of India
15 Film Fare Awards which is considered to be India's Oscar
IIFA award for Best Lyricist for five times.
Awards : Activism
Padma Bhusan Award 2007
Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration 2006
Nagrik Samman by Mayor of Bhopal 2002 amongst countless other awards.
National Integration Award Mewar Foundation 2001.
National Integration Award All India Anti- Terrorist Association 2001
Avadh Ratan 2000.
Padmashri in 1999 by the Government of India
Positions Held
March 2010 Nominated to Rajya Sabha, Sept. 2010 onwards Member, Committee on Home Affairs
Member, Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Human Resource and Development.
Universities Addressed
Harvard University ; Columbia University ; University of Mary Land ; Berkeley California ;
University of London ; University of Cambridge ; University of Oxford ; London School of Economics ;
Lucknow University ; Jawaharlal Nehru University ; Aligarh Muslim University ; Amnesty
International conference in Dublin
His first collection of poetry 'Tarkash' (in Urdu and Hindi) is in its eleventh edition in Hindi, and
seventh edition in Urdu. It has received rave reviews both as a book and as India's first audio book.
According to a recent survey done by a publisher's organization, 'Tarkash' is the most sold book of
verses in the last 60 years in India. His other books include:
(I) Quiver (in English), (ii) Talking Films (in English and Hindi), (iii) Talking Songs (in English), (iv)
Lava (in Urdu and Hindi).
His books 'Talking Films' & 'Talking Songs' published by Oxford University Press have been
hailed by film critics as the most definitive works on Indian Cinema.
Ministry of Human Resource Development declared his song, beckoning the misguided
youth to come forward and build the country, the National Anthem for Youth in 1995.
Javed Akhtar has been given Hon. Doctorate from Pondicherry University - Doctor of Letters
(bonoris causa) 2010.
Javed Akhtar has been Nominated to Rajya Sabha as Member of Parliament by President of India
2010.
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Jawhar Sircar
CEO
Prasar Bharati
Jawhar Sircar is an Indian civil servant of 37 years experience and is presently the Chief
Executive Officer of Prasar Bharati, Broadcasting Corporation of India, that supervises the two
national public service broadcasting networks of India, namely, All India Radio (AIR) and
Doordarshan (DD).
He has been Secretary in the Government of India (Ministry of Culture) from November 2008 to
February 2012 and was responsible for introducing several new schemes and reforms in the
culture sector. He was awarded the first ever British Museum Medal for piloting museum reforms
in the country. Prior to this he has handled different portfolios in finance and industry for almost 18
years, both in the Federal Government and in the State of West Bengal. He was the moving force
behind setting up the Kolkata (Calcutta) International Film Festival, the Kolkata Book Fair, and
several other mammoth ventures.
Jawhar Sircar studied mainly in Kolkata, though he had stints at the British Universities of
Cambridge and Sussex as well as in New York. He has two Master's Degrees in different
subjects, i.e., Sociology (with Social Anthropology) and Ancient Indian History and Culture. He
has carried on research and publications on cultural, historical and anthropological subjects for
several years.
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John S. Rose
Senior Partner & MD
The Boston Consulting Group
John Rose is a Senior Partner and Managing Director in the New York office of The Boston
Consulting Group (BCG). He leads the firm's Global Media and Entertainment and US Private
Equity Practices. He also is leading a multi-year effort on rethinking personal data for the World
Economic Forum. Mr. Rose joined BCG from EMI PLC, where he was Group Executive Vice
President responsible for strategy and corporate development, digital distribution, global
operations, and government affairs. Prior to EMI, he spent 20 years at McKinsey & Co. There, he
was a Director, led the global media practice, and was deeply involved in serving consumer
goods, advertising, and private equity clients.
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Development of a new physical/digital subscription model for a major publisher
Digital strategy and organization for a leading Latin American magazine company
Design and launch of a European pay TV service
3 screen content strategy for a leading Telco
Strategy and development of an OTT business unit for a global Telco
Digital strategy for a multi-channel TV network company
Strategy for a leading cable MSO
Strategy and transformation of an international provider of white label mobile data
services
Growth strategy for a leading web mobile content services company
Incubation and build of a leading sports Internet portal
Design and launch of a DTH satellite TV service
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Leading a restructuring of the company that reduced staff size by 40 percent of 2 years.
Evaluating new approaches to approach retail trade promotion and pricing
Driving key merger discussions and sale of key assets
Mr. Rose received a B.A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude, from Wesleyan University, where he
was awarded the Graham Prize for natural science. He earned a Masters in Public and Private
Management from Yale University. Outside of work, he serves on the Board of Trustees of New
York Public Radio and Young Audiences.
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Jyoti Deshpande
Group CEO & MD
Eros International PLC
Jyoti Deshpande, Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Eros International
PLC, has over 19 years of rich experience in the media and entertainment industry. She has been
associated with Eros Group since 2001 and has been instrumental in helping Eros Plc list on the
AIM in July 2006 and Eros International Media Limited on Indian Stock Exchanges in October
2010. Additionally, Jyoti has played a major role in helping Eros International emerge as a leading
global studio within the Indian film and entertainment sector.
During the period 1998-99, Jyoti had been part of the core team that founded B4U Television
Network in the UK and managed its expansion to other parts of the world.
Earlier, she worked in advertising with J. Walter Thompson, India before moving to the UK in 1997
where she was a senior consultant with MindShare, U.K.
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K V L Narayan Rao
Executive Vice Chairperson
New Delhi Television Ltd ( NDTV Ltd )
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President
News Broadcasters Association (NBA)
Mr. K V L Narayan Rao, Executive Vice Chairperson, New Delhi Television Ltd., joined the
company as General Manager in January 1995, looking after Human Resources (HR),
Administration and Operations of the organisation. He was invited to join the Board of NDTV in
1998 and has been its Executive Director since then. He was appointed Group CEO in 2007 and
Executive Vice Chairperson in August 2011.
Along with Dr Prannoy Roy and Mrs Radhika Roy, Narayan Rao has played a vital role in the
transition and growth of NDTV from a production house to a broadcaster. As Chief Executive
Officer, he has guided the organisation admirably, seeing it through difficult, competitive times
and ensuring that NDTV is now on an even keel with a brand and a reputation as India's leading
media company. He now takes on a new and even more challenging role in the organisation, in
the Chairperson Group as Executive Vice-Chairperson, NDTV.
Narayan Rao started his career as a journalist with the Indian Express, before joining the Indian
Revenue Service where he held several important appointments during his tenure from 19791994. Narayan Rao is the President of the News Broadcasters Association (NBA), a body that
represents private news and current affairs broadcasters in India. He is on the Board of the Indian
Broadcasting Foundation (IBF), and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA). He is
also a Member of the Task Force set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to look at
Broadcasting regulations in India.
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Lalit Bhasin
Managing Partner
Bhasin & Co., Advocates &
Chairman
Film Certification Appellate Tribunal (FCAT)
Mr. Lalit Bhasin is Managing Partner, Bhasin & Co., Advocates and Chairman, Film Certification
Appellate Tribunal (FCAT). Besides, he is also:
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Vice President, The Bar Association of India
Executive President, India Law Foundation
President, Inter Pacific Bar Association
Regional President, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce
President, Indian Society for Afro Asian Studies
Honorary Life Member, International Bar Association
Chairman, CIArb (Chartered Institute of Arbitrators), India Chapter
Chairman, PHD Chamber of Commerce & Industry Committee on Corporate Affairs
Chairman, Services Export Promotion Council
Chairman, CII National Committee on Dispute Resolution
Fellow, CIArb
Member, Management Committee, The Sagar School, Rajasthan
Lalit Bhasin started his law practice in 1962 and has developed Bhasin & Co. as one of the largest
law Firms in North India. His areas of specialization include Employment & Labour Laws,
Corporate Law (Formation of Joint Venture Companies, Foreign Collaborations, Amalgamations,
Mergers, Acquisitions, Disinvestment); Laws relating to Information Technology; Contract and
Conveyancing; Sports Law; Entertainment & Media Laws; Constitutional Law; Banking and
Finance; Consumer Protection Laws; Disputes relating to Foreign Investment e.g. Shareholders
Agreements, Collaboration Agreements, Agency and Distribution Agreements, Technology
Transfer Agreements and Dispute Resolution Practice.
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Mahesh Bhatt
Film Maker
Born in 1948 to a Brahmin father & a Shia Muslim mother,Mahesh Bhatt in a career spanning four
decades has rewritten several rules & thereafter broken most of them. Unconventional to the
point of being rebellious, he has shattered several myths surrounding movie making with his
conviction and belief. He began his journey with a film called Manzilein Aur Bhi Hain in 1973. He
then broke new ground with Arth ('82) which won him both critical & commercial acclaim.He
followed Arth with Saransh, Janam, Daddy, Aashiqui, Dil Hain Ke Manta Nahin ,Sadak,Hum
hain Rahi Pyaar Ke, Sir,Tamanna & finally the national award winning Zakhm with which he
officially said 'pack up' to life behind the camera.
He transcended film direction to writing screenplays for films like RAAZ, JISM, MURDER,
ZEHER, KALYUG, GANGSTER, JANNAT to name a few.
He has also directed & hosted several documentaries like Poison on a platter - an expose on
genetically modified food,the super cyclone in Orissa,the carnage in Gujarat and has anchored &
hosted Haqeeqat, a show on human right violations on Sahara T.V as well as Imaging Science, a
show telecast on Doordarshan.
Besides being India's most prolific film-makers & mentor to a battery of fresh and unusual talent
who have today become names to reckon with, Mahesh Bhatt is also a writer of great repute.
He wrote U.G. Krishnamurty-A Life which has been translated into several languages including
German. The revised version of which has won acclaim by being in the top ten list of the
Associated Press of New York's selection of Best books in the Non Fiction category.
He compiled,edited & wrote the foreword for a book of quotations of U.G Krisnamurthy called 'The
Little Book Of Questions'.
He also wrote A Taste Of Life-The last days of U.G Krishnamurti- his most searing work till date
& one which was also translated into Hindi.
He has been a regular writer of articles for newspapers of national circulation in English (Times of
India, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Pioneer ,The Hindu and others) as well as in Hindi
(Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran etc)
His future book projects include the memoirs he is writing about his years in the Hindi Film
Industry, which is to be published by Penguin India.
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Man Jit Singh
CEO
Sony Entertainment Television
Man Jit Singh brings in twenty years of experience both as the Chief Executive and a consultant
with an extensive background in international operations having worked in North America,
Europe, Asia and Australia. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer for Multi Screen Media
Private Limited in India. As CEO, he oversees Sony Pictures Television's (SPT) networks
business in India, which includes Sony Entertainment Television (SET), SET MAX, SAB and SET
PIX. He previously served as Multi Screen's interim CEO since February 2009 and prior to that
was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Multi Screen.
Mr. Singh has seen a number of turnarounds where he successfully reinvented businesses and
redefined the rules of the game by focusing on customer needs and using technology to innovate.
With a versatile experience across a range of industries such as pharmaceuticals, consumer
products, distribution and staffing , Mr. Singh has also raised capital and successfully grown a
number of startups including Futurestep.com and Compete, Inc.
Much of Mr. Singh's early career was spent in general management consultation working with
private equity firms and developing quantitative methodologies to assist clients in strategic
deployment of resources. He also held senior positions at various management consulting firms
including Sibson & Co., LLP in Los Angeles, The Cast Group AG in Zurich, Switzerland and Los
Angeles, and Cresap in Los Angeles. He began his career at Nestle India.
Mr. Singh has a BA (Hons.) in Economics from St Stephens College, Delhi University. He holds a
post graduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and
an MBA from the Anderson School, UCLA.
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Mukesh Bhatt
President
Film & Television Producers Guild of India
&
Founder
Vishesh Films
Mukesh Bhatt, the founder of Vishesh Films, has been the economic driver and business vision
behind the film banner since it launched in 1987. This prolific producer, who started the film
production house has consistently worked towards harnessing creative energy to produce
favourable economic results. While staying within the realm of entertainment and Bollywood,
Mukesh Bhatt has tactfully taken risks by exploring different genres, producing cost-effective and
script-heavy films and by choosing narratives that are relatable, personal with extreme intensity
and emotion. The current reigning president of the producers guild of India Mukesh Bhatt is at the
helm of not only this potent film production house but also of the film industry at large and his
enterprising personality is constantly steering this industry towards a prolific future.
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Nalin Mehta
Visiting Senior Fellow at Asia Research Institute, Institute of South Asian
Studies
National University of Singapore
&
Joint Editor
South Asian History and Culture (Routledge)
Dr Nalin Mehta is Visiting Senior Fellow at Asia Research Institute and Institute of South Asian
Studies, National University of Singapore and Joint Editor of the international journal South Asian
History and Culture (Routledge) as well as the Routledge 'South Asian History and Culture' book
series.
He is an award-winning writer and social historian whose books include 'India on Television: How
Satellite Channels Have Changed the Way We Think and Act (winner of the 2009 Asian
Publishing Award), the best-selling Sellotape Legacy: Delhi and the Commonwealth Games, with
Boria Majumdar; and a critically acclaimed social history of Indian sport, Olympics: The India
Story. He has edited Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change and co-edited
Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Identity, Conflict and Society.
Mehta has been a senior analyst with the UN and the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland, for the
past four years and has been a Fellow of the Australian National University, Canberra, La Trobe
University, Melbourne, and the International Olympics Museum, Lausanne. He started his career
as a political journalist with NDTV and was Deputy News Editor and anchor at Times Now.
A DFID-Commonwealth scholar, Mehta received his PhD from La Trobe University, Melbourne;
MA in International Relations from the University of East Anglia, UK; and BA (Honours)
Journalism from the University of Delhi.
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Neeraj Roy
MD & CEO
Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.
Neeraj Roy is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hungama Digital Media
Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. Under his leadership, Hungama today is the largest aggregator,
developer and publisher of Bollywood & South Asian entertainment content in the world. Neeraj
was recently voted amongst the 'Top Ten mobiThinkers' and '50 Most influential People in Mobile
Entertainment' globally. Neeraj was also awarded the Sun Microsystems- Economic Times Young
Leader award in 2001 and voted as 25 young leaders in the new millennium by Business India. He
is an active speaker at various international forums and on several domestic and international
committees advising on the global Mobile& Digital Entertainment economy. Neeraj has served as
Chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) and is still on its Board. Known as an
innovator, and sought for his vision in the digital and mobile entertainment industry, Neeraj leads a
team of highly motivated professionals at Hungama. Over the last 13 years the company has
emerged as a leading digital entertainment and marketing company.
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Nik Gowing
Presenter
BBC World News & Author of 'Skyful of Lies and Black Swans'
Nik Gowing has been a main presenter for the BBC's international 24-hour news channel BBC
World News, since 1996. He presents The Hub with Nik Gowing, BBC World Debates, Dateline
London, plus location coverage of major global stories. Nik brings to The Hub his trademark
qualities of rigorous interviewing and in-depth analysis, along with decades of personal
journalistic experience in the field and his background insight.
Nik's extensive reporting experience has spanned across three decades specializing in
diplomacy, defence and international security. In 2009 he published Skyful of Lies and Black
Swans, a peer-reviewed study for the Reuter's Institute at The University of Oxford, reporting on
the new vulnerability and fragility of institutional power in a new media age.
Prior to joining the BBC, Nik worked at ITN where he was bureau chief in Rome and Warsaw for 18
years. From 1989 to 1996 he was Diplomatic Editor for Channel Four News. He has been a
member of the councils of Chatham House (1998 2004), the Royal United Services Institute
(2007-present), the councils of Chatham House (1998-2004), the Overseas Development
Institute (2007-present), the board of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (1996-2005)
and the advisory council at Wilton Park (1998-present). In 1994 he was a fellow at the Joan
Shorenstein Barone Center in the J. F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA.
In 2007, Nik received a Special Award at the first Indian News Television Awards in recognition of
his work in International news Reportage and Coverage. In 2012, Nik received an honorary
doctorate from The University of Exeter for his distinguished contribution to international media
and journalism.
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Pawan Agarwal
Non Executive Director
Dainik Bhaskar Corp Ltd.
Pawan Agarwal is the non executive Director of Dainik Bhaskar Corp Ltd. He has been on the
Board of Dainik Bhaskar Corp Ltd. since inception. He holds bachelor's degree in industrial
engineering from Purdue University, USA. Besides, Pawan has also attended a programme on
leadership's best practices at Harvard University. He has over 13 years of experience in the
publishing business and has been with our organization for same number of years. Pawan heads
entire production and information and technology department of our Company. Besides, he is
also heading the Radio Business which is under one of our subsidiary Business. Pawan is award
recipient from Prime Minister for contribution to Indian Language Journalism.
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Prakash Jha
Film Maker
Prakash Jha is a multiple award wining independent Film Maker from India. Trained as a Film
Editor at the Film & Television Institute of India, he has produced and directed 10 Feature Films,
over 25 Documentaries, 2 Featurettes and 3 Series for Television.
Jha has won 10 National Awards including two GOLDEN LOTUS awards for the Best Feature
Film of the year - 1985 for his film DAMUL - (Bonded until Death) and for the Best Documentary of
the year 2002 for SONAL – a documentary on dancer Sonal Mansingh. Recently he has won the
National Award for the Best Screenplay for APAHARAN (2006) and the National Award for the
Best Feature Film on Other Social Issues for GANGAAJAL (2004). Several of his films including
DAMUL - (Bonded Until Death), PARAMPARA - (Traditions), PARINATI - (The Inevitable) and
MRITYUDAND - (Death Sentence) have participated at various International Film Festivals and
won appreciation and awards.
Most recently Jha has been felicitated with the 2008 Kostas Kyriazis Award, Greek's most
prestigious Honorary Award for his contribution to human values, understanding and cultural
collaboration among fellow human beings.
From hard hitting socially relevant themes depicted in a realistic style to the dramatic genre of
artistic commercial cinema - Jha's films have generated considerable response from critics and
audiences both.
However in this exciting time when Indian cinema is bubbling with new ideas and fresh talent,
Prakash Jha Productions envisages a wider creative horizon where the company has begun to
work and collaborate with other filmmakers.
For the last five years Prakash Jha has been seriously involved with development initiatives in
Bihar. He has been spearheading growth in infrastructure, health care and vocational training
facilities in the state through the NGO Anubhooti.
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Aarakshan (2011)
Turning 30!!! (2011)
Raajneeti (2010)
Dil Dosti Etc (2007)
Khoya Khoya Chand (2007)
Apaharan (2005)
Gangaajal The Holy Weapon(2003)
Rahul (2001)
Dil Kya Kare (1999)
Mrityudand Death Sentence(1997)
Bandish The Bondage(1996)
Parinati The Inevitable(1986)
Damul Bonded Until Death(1984)
Hip Hip Hurray(1983)
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Rahul Bose
Actor
Rahul Bose discovered his passion for acting early when as a boy of six, he played the lead in his
school play, 'Tom, the Piper's Son'. Today one of the country's most respected actors, his seminal
roles are the ones in, 'English, August', 'Split Wide Open' (Best Actor – Singapore Film Festival),
'Mr and Mrs Iyer', 'Before the Rains', 'Kaalpurush' (National Award for Best Film, 2007),'The
Japanese Wife' ands 'I Am'. 'Time' magazine called him 'the superstar of Indian art house cinema'
while 'Maxim' (Italy), 'the Sean Penn of Oriental cinema'. In recognition of this, two retrospectives
have been held – the first in Geneva in 2004, and the second at the Masala! Mehndi! Masti!
Festival in Toronto in 2007, while the River to River Festival in Florence featured an
unprecedented 5 of his films in 2010.
He received the Lt. Governor's Commendation Award for Services to the Andaman and Nicobar
Islands on India's Independence Day this year. In a first for any Indian, Rahul was invited by the
Climate Action Network in September '09 to deliver nine lectures in Canada to the South-Asian
Canadian community on the global politics of climate change to raise awareness in the lead-up to
Copenhagen in December '09. But the real feather in his cap was being selected as one of ten
speakers to speak at the Global day of Action for Climate Change rally of 100,000 people in
Copenhagen, at COP15, in 2010.
Meanwhile, Rahul's efforts through other NGOs have not diminished and have been wellchronicled in the Indian press. This year, the Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India,
recognized his efforts in this field by making him a member of the National Foundation for
Communal Harmony.
An acclaimed speaker Rahul continues to deliver talks across the world. His motivational
speeches on leadership, life choices, personal success and public commitment have been
shared with employees of notable corporates. He was one of only five of the delegation invited to
address the world press. In 2011, he was the first Indian invited to deliver the keynote speech at
the World Bank in Washington DC in a conference on entertainment education.
Rahul’s proudest achievement has been the fact that he has been a member of the Indian rugby
team from 1998-2008, playing 17 internationals for the country against countries like Kazakhstan,
Thailand, China and Japan.
Rahul wrote and directed his first feature film, 'Everybody Says I'm Fine!' for which he won an
Honourable Mention, The John Schlesinger Award for Best Debut Feature Film, at the Palm
Springs International Film Festival, 2003. The film also garnered a Gold Award at the World Fest
in Houston. The first English language film out of India to attract (non-Asian) American theatrical
distribution, '…I'm Fine!' released across 14 cities in the U.S. in 2003. It opened to extremely good
reviews in publications like L.A. Times, L.A. Weekly, Philadelphia Enquirer and Time magazine.
Rahul's next directorial venture will be a film in English based on Mohsin Hamid's highly
acclaimed first novel, 'Moth Smoke'. It goes on the floors in November, 2012.
Rahul continues to write prolifically on issue ranging from gender equality to the future of Indian
cinema.
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Rahul Saighal
Chief Marketing Officer
Samsung
Rahul Saighal is chief marketing officer at Samsung since 2012.
Prior to this, Saighal held the same position at telecom company Aircel, which he joined in
October 2007. Saighal worked with Unilever for almost two-and-a-half years, starting August
2005, as regional brand director in Thailand.
An economics graduate from St Stephen's College, Delhi, Saighal pursued his MBA in marketing
from IIM Calcutta.
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Rajdeep Sardesai
Editor-in-Chief
CNN IBN
Rajdeep Sardesai, 47 years, is the Editor-in-chief of IBN network. He has over 23 years of
journalistic experience in print and television. Prior to setting up the IBN network channels, he was
the Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the
news policy for both the channels. He has also worked with The Times of India for over 5 years
and was city editor of its Mumbai edition at the age of 26. During the last 20 years, he has covered
major national and international stories, specialising in national politics. He has won numerous
other awards for journalistic excellence, including the prestigious Padma Shri for Journalism in
2008, the International Broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the
Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism award for 2007. He has won the Asian Television
award for talk show presentation and has been News Anchor of the year at the Indian Television
Academy for six of the last seven years. He is presently the President of the Editors Guild of India.
He has completed his Masters and LLB from Oxford University.
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Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Elite athlete, decorated soldier
Athens Olympic silver medalist
And a current World Record holder in Double-Trap Shooting
Col. Rathore is widely credited for creating a tipping point – which made Indians believe that we
can win in the global sport arena.
His silver medal win at the Athens Olympics 2004 captured the imagination of a resurgent India.
Rathore has received India's highest sports honour, the Arjuna Award; the Padma Shree award, a
top civilian honour for distinguished service to the nation;the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi
KhelRathna award and numerous civilian and military awards, which recognize his contributions
and the affection that “Chilly” has garnered as an icon of resurgent India.
Rathore took up shooting in late 1998.Rathore has won 16 Gold, 4 Silver and 7 Bronze medals at
international competitions.
He is the first Indian Shooter to have a medal from every major shooting competition there is.
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17th Commonwealth Games Manchester
18th Commonwealth Games Melboume
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Military career
Rathore is a proud army-man and has served the nation with exemplary courage and dedication.
He has been at frontline anti-terrorist operations in the Kashmir Valley and was cited for a bravery
award, the “Shaurya Chakra”.
Rathore is a symbol of military pride and exemplary service, for the Indian Army and is often the
'face' of the Indian Army at national and international forums.
In recognition of outstanding service, Rathore was decorated with the AtiVishistSeva Medal
(AVSM) by India's [formerPresident], APJ Abdul Kalam.
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Ramesh Sippy
Film Maker
Son of renowned film maker G.P. Sippy, Ramesh Gopaldas Sippy was born in Karachi on January
23rd, 1944 and shifted to Mumbai in 1947.
He started working at the young age of 17, and at 21, he became executive producer of the film
Bhramachari, released in 1968. This movie went on to become a huge success and won several
Filmfare Awards that year, including Best Picture.
Ramesh Sippy cannot be cast into a mould – he is a path-breaker, a man of many firsts. He started
his career in direction with Andaaz, an unconventional, mature love story, dealing with the social
issue of widow remarriage, a subject far ahead of its time.
Wanting to do something different for his second film, Ramesh Sippy decided on a light comedy,
Seeta Aur Geeta, starring Dharmendra, Sanjeev Kumar and Hema Malini (in a double role for the
first time), a light comedy was a super hit.
And then came SHOLAY, superbly written by Salim-Javed, the biggest blockbuster in Hindi film
history and one of the most remembered films to this day. SHOLAY ran to full houses for five
years. In 1999, BBC India named SHOLAY the Film of the Millennium and Shri Amitabh
Bachchan, the Star of the Millennium. The British Film Institute named SHOLAY as the first
of the top 10 Indian films.
When the small screen caught his attention. Ramesh Sippy decided to make the serial Buniyaad
for Doordarshan. It ran for over a year on the National Channel, Doordarshan. Ramesh Sippy had
been working with his family-owned company, SIPPY FILMS till then. In 1993 he set up his own
production company—RS Enterprises.
Ramesh Sippy's son, Rohan a graduate from Stanford University, California, returned to India
,ready to try his hand at direction and in 2001 Ramesh Sippy produced a feature film Kuch Naa
Kaho, in which his son made his debut as a director.
In 2006, Ramesh Sippy produced Taxi No. 9211, his first film with an outside director, Milan
Luthria. In 2008 Ramesh Sippy Entertainment produced Chandni Chowk To China.
Over the years Mr. Ramesh Sippy has served on the Jury panels of several prestigious Film
Awards, including member of the Management Council of The Film & Television Producers
GUILD of India, where he has worked selflessly for the betterment of the film industry for many
years by actively fighting for the rights of the producers. .At present, he is also the Chairman of
The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC). He has been a trustee of the Mumbai
Film Festival for several years. Ramesh Sippy was awarded for his Outstanding Contribution
to Indian Cinema at the IIFA awards held in Singapore in 2012.
He is currently working on the script of a film that he plans to direct himself at the end of this year.
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Ramki Sankaranarayanan
CEO
Prime Focus
Ramki Sankaranarayanan is CEO of Prime Focus India and President & CEO of Prime Focus
Technologies. In his role as CEO of Prime Focus India he is responsible for all operations and
business lines throughout India.
Ramki has over 17 years of rich experience performing technical, strategy, customer service,
marketing, sales & general management roles in the IT industry. Ramki has specific experience in
deployment of technology within the Media & Entertainment sector. Prior to Prime Focus, he was
the CEO of Subex Technologies, an IT Services player in the Telecom Industry. In the 2 years at
Subex, he grew the revenues from USD 12 million to 26 million and staff size from 120 to 340. He
led the team that built unique IPs for IPTV Service Launch & Operations Support, Automation of
the digital content life-cycle management and Digital Signage Content Delivery.
Prior to joining Subex, as General Manager & Head of worldwide sales and marketing in Tata Elxsi
for the Product R&D Services division, he helped triple revenues in 3 years developing business
worldwide across Japan, Europe, India & North American regions. Ramki also set up the
operations of Tata Elxsi in USA and grew it into a Multi-million dollar region and as an Industry
Manager he led the business in the Media Industry in India and established Tata Elxsi as an
Innovator & Systems Integrator of content creation tools & systems.
Ramki holds a Bachelors Degree in Engineering from B.I.T.S Pilani, India and a MBA degree from
S. P Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, India.
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Ravi Dhariwal
CEO
Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd
Ravi Dhariwal is CEO of Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd and provides strategic over sight to all
business of BCCL. Under his able leadership, Times of India has become the world's largest
English daily and Economic Times the world's 2nd largest business daily. Also, consumer regard,
customer loyalty and profitability of the business have grown significantly. Besides, substantial
progress has been made in its Radio, Television, Internet and outdoor business.
Before joining Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd, from 1989-October 2001, Ravi Dhariwal worked for
Pepsi-Cola International. From being Vice President, Marketing, in 1991 he got promoted to Vice
President, Operations. As Vice President, Operations, he helped set up and consolidate bottling
network – setting up 22 plants in two years. In 1992, he got promoted to Head of Beverages,
responsible for Pepsi's soft drinks operation in India. In 1994, he negotiated the purchase of
seven plants, bought over Dukes. Then Ravi Dhariwal was promoted and transferred to head
Pepsi's business in South/East Africa, based in Johannesburg. The key challenge was to
reintroduce Pepsi brands in Coke-dominated regions – starting with South Africa and then on to
other countries in Southern and East Africa. During this two-year assignment, Pepsi significantly
improved its share, and more than doubled the volume in the period 1995/96. In November 1996,
Ravi Dhariwal was promoted as V.P. Customer Development for Central East European Business
Unit, based in Budapest, Hungary, and covering France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Hungary,
Czech/Slovak and Poland. In this short assignment of less than a year, he was responsible for the
Sales function of business worth $1Billion. Earlier, while heading Pepsi's Philippines business
during 1997- 2001, Pepsi's business almost doubled in the Philippines against a very dominant
Coke. Also, he was responsible for businesses in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore
from time-to-time. Besides growing business in these countries, he was also instrumental in
buying over partners in Vietnam, and forging a J.V with its Philippines partner, the Hong Leong
Group.
Earlier, he worked at Unilver for 12 years from 1977 – 1989, both in India and Australia.
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Rohit Gupta
President
Sony Entertainment Television
Rohit Gupta is currently the President of Sony Entertainment Television, and is responsible for the
revenue streams of the organization.
Rohit has 28 years of experience in the Indian industry. He was associated with Xerox for 19
years, where he handled various assignments across India. He held key leadership positions in
the senior management team of Xerox for 10 years. His last assignment was at the headquarters
in New Delhi, heading the critical sales and marketing function, as its Executive Director Sales
and Marketing.
Rohit began his journey with Sony Entertainment Television in 2002, as a member of the core
senior management team, which was responsible for all the strategies and directions within the
organization. Since then he has been responsible for the tremendous growth in the network's
revenues and the success of the smaller brands like SAB, PIX, MIX & AXN. In this short span he
has been instrumental in taking the network to the No. 1 position in overall Ad Sales revenues
amongst all broadcasters.
Rohit was closely associated with the ICC cricket rights and all the ICC tournaments that took
place between 2002 and 2007. He has been a lead member in the core IPL team that successfully
won the 10-year rights to the tournament. He has worked closely with all the stakeholders of IPL to
ensure the overall success of the league. Since then, the IPL has changed prime time viewing
habits and broken all viewership records, making it the single biggest television event in Indiaboth in terms of revenue and viewership.
He has also been an active participant in expanding the revenues on new media initiatives by
exposing the network to forums like Digital, Mobile and Syndication Businesses. Rohit is married
with two daughters and lives in Mumbai.
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Ronnie Screwvala
Managing Director
The Walt Disney Co.
Ronnie Screwvala is a first generation entrepreneur who started his journey by launching the first
organized cable TV venture in Mumbai, in June of 1981. Within a few years the network had
subscribed thousands of households in the area.
From introducing Indians to cable TV in 1981 and daily soap operas in 1994 and being rated by
Fortune as Asia's 25 most powerful and by Esquire amongst the 75 most influential people of the
21st century to being termed as the Jack Warner of India by Newsweek.
From this started the 2nd leg of the journey into the media and entertainment business with the
birth of UTV. Under his able leadership UTV spanned from TV production into film production and
distribution, set up a broadcast network of niche channels, forayed into interactive and gaming
content and then went on to establish UTV as India's first global media and entertainment
conglomerate. At the helm of the UTV brand, he was instrumental in corporatization of the Indian
Film Industry so also in establishing closer ties with Hollywood. Over the years, Ronnie has
created tremendous value for his shareholders. UTV began its journey as a listed entity with a $55
million market cap in 2005 and ended with an acquisition by Disney 2012 at an enterprise value of
approximately $1.4 billion.
He is today viewed as a true personification of successful entrepreneurship, with a vision to think
big and a constant innovator.
In his new avatar as Managing Director – The Walt Disney Company India, Ronnie has taken on
the mantle of driving the strategy and growth for Walt Disney Company in one of its most important
global growth markets. The business in India for The Walt Disney Company would span
television, broadcasting, movies, consumer products and licensing, interactive, digital and
games through multiple brands namely Disney, UTV, bindass®, Marvel, Indiagames, Pixar and
ABC.
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S. N. Sharma
CEO
DEN Networks Limited
Mr. S.N. Sharma is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DEN Networks Limited, India's leading
cable television distribution company serving 11 million homes in 13 states. DEN offers India's
leading digital cable consumer offering, DEN Digital.
He has over 20 years of experience in the electronic media industry and is a veteran of the Indian
cable TV industry which he has been associated with it since its infancy. He has been associated
with DEN since its formation and is a driving force in taking the company into the digital era.
Prior to joining DEN, he held key positions in cable TV companies like Hathway and IndusInd
Media and Communication. He holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communications
and a Masters in Business Administration.
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Sam Balsara
Chairman & MD
Madison World
Sam Balsara is ranked 14 by DNA in its recent list of 50 Most Influential people of Mumbai. The
newspaper calls him a Trailblazer and goes on to state, “He has treaded his own path for the last
three decades and is recognized as one of the prominent personalities of Indian advertising.
While accolades have come thick and fast during his illustrious career. Balsara has also been a
very efficient helmsman, helping his agency, Madison, grow manifold across verticals like
advertising, marketing, public relations, entertainment and retail. As a storehouse of creativity
and energy, Balsara continues to inspire many in the advertising and media business”.
The Economic Times Brand Equity Ad Agency Reckoner ranks Sam as “India's Most Influential
Media Person” for 6 consecutive years from 2006 till 2011 and also ranked Sam amongst the Top
10 Most Influential Person in Advertising” in 2011. Sam is also the recipient of the Advertising
Agencies Association of India's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Ad Club of Kolkata's Hall of
Fame Award. Sam was also featured in Campaign's Global Power List 2010 – a list of over 150
most influential people in media, marketing and advertising in the world.
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Sameer Manchanda
Chairman & Managing Director
DEN Networks Ltd
Sameer Manchanda is the Chairman & Managing Director of DEN Networks Ltd., India's leading
cable TV distribution company serving 11 million homes across major states of India.
DEN was founded in 2007 with the vision to bring about a paradigm shift in India's cable TV
distribution industry through consolidation and digitisation. Within a few years from its formation
DEN has become India's leading cable TV distribution company and is a pioneer of digitisation.
DEN formed a path breaking 50-50 distribution joint-venture with the Star TV group called Star
DEN. In 2011, Star DEN and Zee Turner formed MediaPro, a 50-50 J-V, which is the exclusive
distribution entity for over 70 leading pay TV channels in India.
He was a co-founder of the erstwhile IBN18, home of leading television channels CNN IBN and
IBN7 and was the Joint Managing Director of the company from 2005 to 2010. He was also a
founding member of the News Broadcasters Association and served as its President in 2009 and
2010. Prior to IBN18, he served as a Director on the board of NDTV Ltd.
A qualified Chartered Accountant, he has over two decades' experience in the Indian media &
television industry. He is a member of the FICCI Broadcast Forum and the CII National Committee
on Media & Entertainment.
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Sanjeev Lamba
CEO
Reliance Entertainment
Sanjeev has been serving as the CEO of Reliance Entertainment since 2009, the movie
production, distribution, home entertainment and animation arm of the Reliance Group, based out
of Mumbai, India.
He has more than 25 years of experience in the entertainment and advertising industry with
Ogilvy and Mather Advertising in India, The Walt Disney Company in Asia and the US and the
Weinstein Company in New York in senior international positions across movies, video games,
consumer products and advertising for global brands.
In his current role he is responsible for managing the development of movies in Indian languages
and their distribution, marketing and sales worldwide across all platforms for Reliance
Entertainment, the production and distribution of home entertainment products in India for Indian
language films and major Hollywood Studios including Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros. and
Dreamworks, plus the development of animated content for both television and feature films. In
addition to being a partner in the new DreamWorks Studios, Reliance Entertainment is also
responsible for the Indian distribution of all Dreamworks' films.
During the past 20 years Sanjeev has been based in Mumbai, Hongkong, Tokyo, Los Angeles and
New York with global responsibilites and has helped build successful international entertainment
franchises.
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Shekhar Kapur
Filmmaker, Activist, Media Entrepreneur
&
Founder & Chairman
Qyuki Media
Shekhar Kapur is a globally recognised film director, activist, media visionary and proponent on
the future of New Media. Having started his career as an accountant, management consultant
and economist in London, he returned to India in search of a new direction and went on to become
a well known actor, director, writer and producer. He is best known for films, such as Elizabeth,
Golden Age, Bandit Queen, Mr India, Masoom and Four Feathers, that have won or been
nominated for numerous awards including the Oscars, BAFTA's, and Filmfare Awards.
He has executive produced the Bollywood-themed, Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Bombay
Dreams as well as films such as The Guru for Universal Studios. He set up Virgin Comics and
Virgin Animation, focused on creating new stories and characters for a global audience, with
Richard Branson and Deepak Chopra.
As a content creator with over 25 years of experience in almost every medium possible, across
the world, he recognises the importance of New Media which he believes is finally encouraging
the “democracy of information and thought”. He is exploring emerging content consumption
trends and successful business models at the confluence of technology and content.
He is the Founder and Chairman of Qyuki Media, a company he started last year in partnership
with Cisco, and is creating emotive Social Media communities beyond Facebook.
He also sits on a number of boards and advisory committees including the Media Development
Authority of Singapore, the Prime Minister of India's Special Advisory Board for Innovation, Media
and New Media and the International Global Water Challenge. He has diverse environmental
interests while currently championing the cause of Water as a resource, and is recognized as one
of India's leading proponents in this space. He was given one of India's highest civilian state
awards, the “Padma Shri”, for his service to media in the nation.
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Shyam Benegal
Film Maker
One of the pioneers of the new cinema in India, Shyam Benegal has been considered one of the
leading filmmakers of the country ever since his first feature film, ANKUR was released. His films
have been seen and acclaimed widely in India and at International film festivals for the last three
decades. The core subjects of his films have been varied in nature but mainly centered around
contemporary Indian experience. Problems of development, social and cultural change appear
on many levels as a continuing thread in practically all his films. Apart from fiction features, he has
made a number of documentaries on different subjects ranging from cultural anthropology and
problems of industrialization, to music and so on. His work on television consists of several
popular series based on international stories, short stories by well-known Indian writers and a
mammoth 53 part series on the history of India based on Jawaharlal Nehru's book Discovery of
India. He has also made an extra-mural educational series for rural children sponsored by
UNICEF.
Shyam Benegal taught mass-communication techniques between 1966 and 1973 and later took
an active role in shaping film education as Chairman of the Film Television Institute of India during
1980-83 and 1989-92.
As a person deeply committed to social integration in India, Shyam Benegal was part of the
National Integration Council (1986-89) and the National Council of Art. The Government of India
has conferred on him two of its most prestigious awards – PADMA SHRI (1976) and PADMA
BHUSHAN (1991).
In 2004, he was awarded the Indira Gandhi National Integration Award. He is also recipient of
Dadasaheb Phalke Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005. Additionally, he was conferred with a
D.Litt (Honoris Causa) from Jamia Millia University in 2007 and has recently been conferred a
D.Litt from the University of Calcutta in 2012.
Shyam Benegal's career started with a job as a copywriter in advertising from where he graduated
to become the Creative & Accounts Group Head before becoming a full time filmmaker. He has
lectured at many institutions in India and abroad as well as participated in seminars on subjects
dealing with Cinema, Television, Information Technology and different aspects of social and
cultural change.
He has made 26 fiction features for the Cinema, several documentaries and TV series, notably a
53 hour TV series on the History of India.
Practically all his films have won national awards and several of them have been awarded
internationally. He was a Homi Bhabha fellow (1970-72) during which time, he studied Children's
Television with CTW in New York and worked as Associate Producer with WGBH, Boston. Shyam
Benegal runs a film production company in Mumbai.
Shyam Benegal was a Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, 2006-2012.
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Smita Jha
Leader, Entertainment & Media Practice
PwC India
Smita leads the Entertainment and Media practice in PwC India and is a director in the firm. She
has over 16 years of experience in the area.
Some of her key assignments include the authoring of consultation papers for various industry
forums such as FICCI, CII, IBEF, etc. Smita has been authoring the annual reports on the industry
for the last six years.
She has worked on market entry strategy, market assessment studies, feasibility studies, etc. in
sectors such as television, cable distribution, digital cinema, online infotainment, music, etc. She
is a member of various internal as well as external study groups for the sector focussed on
establishing international best practices and benchmarking.
Smita holds a degree in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and is a
fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and Institute of Cost & Works
Accountants of India.
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Sonali Chander
Editorial Consultant
NDTV Nirmal Marks for Sports Campaign
Sonali Chander has been working in television since 1994 and was one of the youngest sports
editors in the country having got that job at age 28. She was the face of sports news in India after
NDTV became the first news channel to start a daily half hour sports show in 2001.
She won the best sports anchor & commentator award at the Hero Honda Indian Television
Awards. Her show 'Cricket Controversies' with former test cricketer Navjot Sidhu & Ajay Jadeja
was rated as the best sports chat show by Indian Telly awards. The sociology & anthropology
graduate has focused on cricket coverage through her career with her favourite assignments
being the 2003 World Cup In South Africa and India's tour of Pakistan in 2004.
Sonali stepped aside from daily sports news in 2011 & is now the editorial head of the NDTVNirmal 'Marks for Sports' campaign. The campaign aims to influence sports policy by having
sports included as part of the curriculum in all states. Sports Minister Ajay Maken thanked the
campaign for being the inspiration behind his proposed national physical fitness programme.
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Sudhanshu Vats
Group CEO
Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd
Sudhanshu Vats is Group CEO, Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd. responsible for all their
brands/businesses comprising Colors, MTV, Nick, Sonic, Vh1, Comedy Central and Viacom18
Motion pictures.
An HUL veteran Sudhanshu Vats has spent about 20 years with Unilever in different assignments.
In his last assignment with Unilever as Vice President – Laundry South Asia & Radiant based in
Mumbai he grew South Asia Laundry business in strong double digits crossing the Euro 1 bn
Turnsover milestone in 2011. In his earlier assignment as Vice President - Skin Cleansing and
Laundry & HHC, HUL India, he successfully led the Laundry and HHC categories doubling this
large business segment in the last four years.
A Management Graduate from IIM-A (1989-91), he joined HUL as a Management Trainee and has
since worked with them in various Sales & Marketing and General Management roles across
different categories (Home & Personal Care and Foods) and in all the four geographies in the
country. During his tenure he has shaped many popular Household brands, most notably Vim,
Wheel, Surf, Rin, Lifebuoy, Lux & Lipton.
During 2004-2005, Sudhanshu worked with BP in India for about 18 months as Vice President
Marketing and was instrumental in the Castrol Master Brand Re-launch in 2005.
He is an avid trekker and runs marathons regularly.
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Sudhir Mishra
Film Maker
Sudhir Mishra began his career in films as an Assistant Director and one of the Screenplay Writers
of the classic film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983), and then of Mohan Joshi Haazir Ho (1984). It was in
1987, that he directed his first film Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin, which went on to win the National
Award for Best First Film of a Director. Since then he has directed twelve more feature films, all of
which, independent in thought and form, have been acclaimed both nationally as well as
internationally. Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005 Filmfare Best Story Award), Chameli (2003), Is
Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996), Dharavi (1992, National Award), and Mains Zinda Hoon (1988,
National Award) have all been milestones in the cinema movement in the country.
Besides directing films, Mishra has also independently produced serials like Kab Tak Pukarun,
that became the most watched TV series on Doordarshan in 1989, to directing Kismat (1994) for
Ramesh Sippy Productions. In 2009, he produced Sikandar (directed by Piyush Jha) with the
association of Reliance Big Entertainment. His latest release, Yeh Saali Zindagi (2011), starring
Irrfan Khan and Chitrangda Singh was critically acclaimed as well as a commercial success (also
nominated for nine awards at SCREEN awards).
He is currently finishing his latest film, a passionate story of a relationshsip between two people,
starring Arjun Rampal and Chitrangda Singh, and is in pre-production of few other films. The first
is Mehrunissa, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor, to be produced by Nikhil Advani
(Director of Kal Ho Na Ho, Salaam-e-ishq) and a film with Balaji Productions, to be produced by
Ekta Kapoor.
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1987 Indira Gandhi Award for Best First Film of a Director: Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin
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1989 National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues: Main Zinda Hoon
(1988)
1992 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi: Dharavi (1991)
2006 Filmfare Best Story Award: Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005)
2010: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (French Government) France's knighthood equivalent to the "Sir" title of the British
1991 Prix de Ville de Nantes
Additionally films such as Yeh Woh Manzil Toh Nahi, Main Zinda Hoon were selected for
premier film festivals such as London, Tokyo, Mannheim, etc.
Dharavi was selected for over 25 festivals, and Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi a similar
number including Florence, Edinburgh, Washington, India (Goa), Bite The Mango
(Bradford), Manchester, etc.
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Sunil Lulla
MD & CEO
Times Television Network
Sunil Lulla is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer for the TIMES TELEVISION
NETWORK, comprising India's leading TV channels, TIMES NOW, ET NOW, zoOm and MOVIES
NOW.
Sunil has over 25 years of rich experience in building brands and businesses, across media,
advertising, music, & beverages. He brings deep domain knowledge in the Television
Broadcasting Industry, having been associated with it since the last 16 years.
He plays an active role across many Industry Forums and Associations in shaping industry
consensus and policy.
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Uday Shankar
CEO
Star India
Uday Shankar is the CEO of Star India, one of the largest media and entertainment companies in
India that operates nearly 40 channels in 8 languages. The Star network enjoys market
leadership in key geographies, demographics, and time slots, and today reaches more than 400
million viewers in India and across the globe.
Uday has been at the helm since October 2007 and has guided the transformation of STAR into a
diversified media company. His tenure has been marked by persistent leadership in television
through innovative programming and investments in leading technologies, both of which
invariably set the benchmark for the industry.
In addition to his leadership of Star, Uday is a leading voice in championing reforms for the
industry and its consumers.
He holds an M.Phil in Economic History from the Jawahsarlal Nehru University, Delhi.
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Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
Contributing Editor
The Business Standard
Vanita Kohli-Khandekar is a media specialist and writer. She has been tracking the Indian media
and entertainment business for over a decade.
Currently she is a columnist and writer for Business Standard and Mid-Day. Her earlier stints
include one at Businessworld and Ernst & Young. A Cambridge University fellow (2000), Vanita
has taught at some of the top communication schools in India. Her book, The Indian Media
Business (Sage), is currently in its third edition.
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Vidya Balan
Film Actor
She can stun you with her smile, she can touch you with her simplicity…
She can make you believe in miracles, she can make you wonder if she is real…
She is the progressive woman of today and then again she is a classic timeless beauty…
Vidya Balan may have started out on the small screen, but her talent allowed her to get absorbed
into mainstream cinema, and soon after she was unveiled in a dream debut : the epic Parineeta
directed by Pradeep Sarkar. Since then there has been no looking back. Her extremely sensitive
portrayal of the coy Bengali belle 'Lolita' in Parineeta, instantly won millions of hearts and
reserved a place for her in the top league of actresses in Bollywood.
Her ethereal smile, her touching simplicity, her flawless beauty and her ability to emote on screen
has won her admirers for a lifetime. Such was the euphoria over Vidya Balan's performance, that
she swept away every Best Debut Award in the country that year.
Soon after, Vidya went on to dazzle all with her talent in movies like Raju Hirani's Lagey Raho
Munnabhai, essaying the role of a charming, heart-warming radio jockey. She received great
acclaim for her portrayal of a possessed woman in Priyadarshan's Bhool Bhulaiyaa. These films
only reaffirmed her versatility as an actor who can pull of difficult characters with effortless grace.
Her films Paa & Ishqiya (one of the top 5 films of the year) not only set the box-office on fire but has
also set her apart as one of the finest actors of this generation.
Her last two releases - The Dirty Picture and Kahaani, were top grossers and acclaimed as few of
the biggest super hits, for a female oriented subject. Her performance in The Dirty Picture won her
mass and critical acclaim, making a clean sweep of the Best Actress Award at every award
ceremony in 2012.
Vidya exemplifies all that is Indian and natural in essence. Her beauty is only seconded by her
intelligence, considering the spectrum of roles she has essayed in such a short span and,
successfully, at that. She is bold, real and sensuous, making her the first choice for roles that
require depth of character and substance. In short, she is – one of the finest actresses the country
has ever produced!
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Vijay Lazarus
President, Indian Music Industry (IMI),
President, Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), &
President, Mobile Music Exchange Ltd.
Vijay Lazarus is President of Indian Music Industry, Phonographic Performance Ltd & Mobile
Music Exchange Ltd. Mr Lazarus is leading the entire Indian Music Industry into the new Digital
Era by collectively licensing & marketing over 3 million songs of all the 150 Music Companies in
India for the Digital Business of Mobile & Internet, the Broadcasting Business of Radio & TV for
the Business of Public Performance.
He initiated and continues to lead the Industry's crusade against Piracy through the IMI-AntiPiracy He is a Key Advisor on Copyright to The Government of India, to The Federation of Indian
Chamber of Commerce & Industry and The Confederation of Indian Industries
Earlier as Chairman & Managing Director of Universal Music India Ltd, Mr Lazarus worked with
leading Indian & International Artists & Film Producers creating great Albums, unique events &
award wining Films.
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Vikramaditya Chandra
Group CEO & Executive Director
NDTV
Vikramaditya Chandra has been associated with NDTV since 1994 and is not only one of India's
leading news personalities and anchors, but has also taken on corporate responsibility for several
years.
He headed NDTV Profit from its creation and led it to become India's leading business channel.
Vikram then became CEO of NDTV Networks.
As one of India's best known anchorpersons he presents 'The Big Fight', which has long been one
of India's top rated news and current affairs programmes and 'Gadget Guru' along with several
other special shows.
As a special correspondent, he has extensively covered the Siachen & Kargil wars, and the
conflict in Kashmir.
Vikram has been named "Global Leader for Tomorrow" and a 'Young Global Leader' by the World
Economic Forum in Davos; has won the Indian Television Academy Award 2008 for "Best Anchor
for a Talk Show", the Hero Honda Award for Best Anchorperson and the Teacher's Achievement
Award for Communication.
He has been one of the pioneers in social programming for public interest and has anchored three
GREENATHON's that raised money for solar lanterns and is now involved with the "Save our
Tigers" campaign.
As Chief Executive Officer, NDTV Group, Vikram has overall authority and responsibility for all
aspects of the company: corporate, operational and channel performance. Vikram became a
member of the NDTV Board in November, 2011.
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Vinod Dhall
Former Chairperson
Competition Commission of India
Mr Vinod Dhall belonged to the IAS and retired as Secretary, Government of India. He was the first
and founding Head of the Competition Commission of India, a position that he held for about 5
years. He laid the foundation of the Commission by establishing the framework of its policies and
procedures, including the draft Regulations, analytical models, and the core staff with requisite
training. Currently, Mr Dhall is Chairman, Dhall Law Chambers that specialises in competition law
practice. He has a “best friend” relationship with global law firm, Linklaters LLP.
As Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Mr Dhall was responsible inter alia for the introduction
and enactment of the Competition Act, 2002. Mr. Dhall's book, “Competition Law Today” was
published by Oxford University Press, and his writings have been published in professional
journals and the business press. He has thus been deeply involved in shaping the competition law
in India.
Mr Dhall was Chairman of the Working Group on National Competition Policy, which has been the
basis for further steps to institute a National Competition Policy for India. He is Senior Consultant
to Government of Bhutan for introducing Competition Law and Policy.
As Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Mr Dhall was responsible for: the establishment of the
Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), formulation and initiation of the e-Governance projectMCA21, and reforms relating to corporate governance
During his career in Government, Mr Dhall specialized in the fields of Corporate Affairs, Industry
and Commerce, Economic Regulation and Finance, in which he worked for about 27 years. This
includes direct experience of running a business as CEO of two PSUs, and experience as
Chairman / Member of Board of Directors of insurance companies, banks, development banks,
financial institutions, and Joint Sector undertakings. It also includes economic regulatory
experience and international experience. He was Member of stock market regulator-SEBI, and
involved with regulation of insurance sector and company law. Mr Dhall was also Chairman of the
Committee on Public Procurement for reform of the public procurement processes, whose report
is being actively implemented by Government.
Mr Dhall is recognised as an expert in competition law and is member of several expert
committees and bodies at the international level related to competition law. He is Visiting
Professor / resource person on Competition Law at reputed institutions.
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Vinod Mehta
Advisor
Outlook India
In an extraordinary 36-year career in Indian journalism, Vinod Mehta became the country's
youngest editor when he took over as editor-in-chief of Debonair in 1974. Since then he has
founded and edited numerous publications. He is the founder-editor of India's first Sunday paper,
The Sunday Observer, the founder editor of the now defunct Bombay daily, The Independent and
the founder-editor of The Pioneer (Delhi edition). He was also editor of The Indian Post. Currently
he is the Editorial Chairman of Outlook Group that publishes 10 magazines from its stable
including the weekly newsmagazine, Outlook that has established “a record in India”. As he notes:
“The only reason I launched so many publications was because I kept getting sacked.” Mr Mehta
has resigned from several editorships on issues concerning editorial freedom and the
independence of the editor.
“The ultimate launch-man of Indian journalism”, Vinod Mehta has published his memoir, Lucknow
Boy, in November 2011 which recorded unprecedented publishing success in Indian history
remaining on the best selling list since then. Mr Mehta is currently writing the second part of the
memoir.
Mr Mehta has authored a book on Bombay, and biographies of Sanjay Gandhi and Meena
Kumari, both will be reprinted by Harper Collins soon. He wrote and presented “Letter from India”
on BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4.
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Vipul Armutlal Shah
Film Maker
Vipul Armutlal Shah is one of the leading filmmakers in Bollywood today. He enjoys a very
successful track record as a filmmaker in Indian motion picture business. His first three directorial
ventures - Aankhein, Waqt and Namastey London - have been huge hits. Even his first film as a
producer, Singh is King, emerged as one of the biggest hits of Bollywood last year, grossing over
Rs.150 Crores worldwide.
A graduate with a Bachelor's Degree in Commerce from NM College of Commerce, Mumbai, Vipul
Shah started his career with acting in Gujarati plays before enriching his resume with his works on
television and feature films.
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Starting in 1983, Vipul started acting in Gujarati plays and in a period of 4 years gave more
than 600 shows of these plays in Gujarat, Mumbai and Kolkatta. Majority of these plays
were big hits.
In 1987 he directed his first play “AANDHALO PATA” (translation in English “BLINDFOLD”)
In 1994 he directed his second play “Action Replayy” a musical Gujarati play.
Television:
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In 1993 Vipul ventured into Gujarati Television. He produced and directed 140 episodes of 6
Gujarati Serials for Ahmedabad Doordarshan.
1994 saw the show “Jeevan Mrityu” with 35 episodes go on air on “In Mumbai” Channel with
famous filmstar Aamir Khan making a guest appearance.
In 1995 Vipul joined television production company Divya Drishti Television Network Ltd.
(DDTNL) as Director and shareholder and directed the highly successful TV Serial “Ek
Mahal Ho Sapno Ka” – both in Hindi for Sony Television and in Gujarati for Doordarshan.
From 1995 onwards, simultaneous to working with DDTNL, Vipul worked closely as
producer and creative director with television software production house Shobhna Desai
Productions Pvt. Ltd. for various television shows.
Cinema: “Block Buster Movie Entertainers”
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In 2000 Vipul directed his first Gujarati film “Darya Choru” (Son of the Sea)
In 2002 Vipul directed his first Hindi film, “Aankhen”
In 2005 Vipul produced and directed “Waqt”
In 2007 Vipul produced and directed “Namastey London”
2008 saw Vipul Shah making his debut as Producer with “Singh Is Kinng”, under the
banner of Block Buster Movie Entertainers.
In 2009 Vipul directed “London Dreams” with Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn and Asin and
others.
In 2010 Vipul produced and directed “Action Replayy”
In 2011 Vipul produced and released the film “Kucch Luv Jaisaa”
In 2011 Vipul produced “Force”
Currently, Vipul Shah is also producing a film tentatively titled as “Commander”
FACULTY PROFILE
Vir Sanghvi
Member
Broadcasting Content Complaint Council
Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print,
television, books and now, new media. He was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo
College, Ajmer and Mill Hill School, London. He won an Open Scholarship to read Politics,
Philosophy and Economy at Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1978, when he was 22, he was
appointed editor of Bombay magazine, making him the youngest editor in the history of Indian
journalism. In 1983, he presided over the re-launch of the monthly features magazine Imprint and
in 1986, when he was 30, he became editor of Sunday, the newsmagazine published by the ABP
group. . Under Sanghvi's editorship Sunday became India's largest-selling English-language
newsmagazine. Later, Sanghvi became Consulting Editor of the ABP group, the leading
publishers of newspapers and magazines in Eastern India.
In 1999, he was appointed Editor of the Hindustan Times, the largest-selling English-language
newspaper in Delhi and North India. In 2003, he stepped down as Editor but continued as Editorial
Director till 2007. During Sanghvi's time, the Hindustan Times became a multi-edition newspaper
opening new editions in Chandigarh, Calcutta, Bhopal, Ranchi, and most successful in Bombay
where it is now the second largest-selling newspaper.
In 2007, Sanghvi switched to an advisory role with HT Media, the company that publishes the
Hindustan Times and the financial daily Mint. He continues to be a regular columnist for the
Hindustan Times and an occasional columnist for Mint.
Sanghvi has also run a parallel TV career which began while he was still editor of Sunday. He
anchored Question Time for Doordarshan, the state run broadcaster and then Roundtable for DDCNN, a collaboration between Doordarshan and CNN. In 1997, he switched to the Star Network
where he has anchored many shows across channels, among them A Question of Answers, Star
Talk, Veer Ke Teer, and Cover Story. His most recent show Achievers' Club aired on Star World in
2011/12.
He has also anchored shows on the NDTV network, including Face The Music, and One On One
on NDTV 24x7 and Custom Made for Vir Sanghvi on NDTV Good Times. His most recent
appearance on NDTV was a judge on the India-Pakistan food competition Foodistan in 2012.
Among Sanghvi's other shows are A Matter of Taste and Vir Sanghvi's Asian Diary on Discovery
Travel and Living and Tycoons On The Record on CBBC.
Sanghvi's books include Men of Steel (published by Roli Books), Rude Food and Madharvaro
Scindia, a biography (Penguin) and India – Then and Now (Roli).
Vir Sanghvi has won many awards during his career for both TV and print including the Rajiv
Gandhi Award, the Lokmanya Tilak Award, the Cointreau Award for Best Food Literature Book in
the world (for Rude Food) and innumerable TV prizes. In 1993, he was declared A Global Leader
of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum at Davos.
He has been a member of many professional, academic and government bodies including the
National Integration Council. Currently, he is a member of the Broadcast Content Complaint
Council (BCCC), a body that regulates content on entertainment TV channels.
FACULTY PROFILE
Star India
STAR India has defined India's broadcast space for the last two decades and is today one of the leading,
pan India, media and entertainment conglomerates.
STAR India broadcasts close to forty channels in eight languages to more than 400 million viewers every
week across India and 100 other countries. Its channel portfolio includes Star Gold, Channel [V], Star
Jalsha, Star Pravah, Star World, Star Movies, Star Utsav, Life OK, Movies OK and Star Plus, India's No.
1, General Entertainment Channel. STAR India also has leading presence in regional broadcasting
through a bouquet of joint venture channels i.e., Asianet channels and Star Vijay.
Star India is a fully owned subsidiary of News Corporation. www.newscorp.com
SPONSORS PROFILE
Tata Sky
Tata Sky is a JV between the TATA Group and STAR. With its launch in 2006, Tata Sky brought
about a complete paradigm shift in the DTH market with the introduction of many industry firsts to
empower every Indian viewer with 'Choice, Control and Convenience'.
In just over 6 years, the company currently boasts its presence across 15,000 towns with a
subscriber base of over 10 million premium connections. As a leader in both technology and
revenue share, Tata Sky has established itself as the fastest growing premium pay TV platform in
India.
The company continues to invest in the state-of-the-art digital infrastructure, partner with global
leaders to provide superior technology and further enhance its high-end 24x7 call centers across
the country which is manned by multi-lingual customer service associates to offer professional
and efficient customer service.
In 2008, the DTH market witnessed the launch of Tata Sky+, offering the breakthrough 'Personal
Video Recorder' (PVR) technology for the first time in the Indian subcontinent, with unique
features such as Pause, Record & Rewind Live TV. This was further enhanced with the launch of
Tata Sky HD at an affordable price point making it a reality for every Indian household.
With a focused objective to enthrall the Indian viewers with High Definition, Tata Sky rolled out its
most anticipated Tata Sky+ HD, the new generation PVR with the capability of delivering stunning
HD picture quality in 1080i resolution with Dolby Digital 7.1 surround sound. Equipped with a
humongous 500 GB hard drive, users can now record every minute of action of their favourite
sport, shows and movies in true HD.
Establishing itself as the technology leader in the DTH industry, Tata Sky launched its Video on
Demand service - a combination of Catch Up TV and VoD Library of Movies and TV concerts for
subscribers for easy download. To enjoy the service, subscribers need to connect the Tata Sky+
HD Set Top Box to their broadband connection through an Ethernet cable and download their
favourite content. The launch of VoD marks a new phase of consumer centricity in the DTH
industry pioneered by Tata Sky.
This was followed with the launch of Tata Sky Mobile Access, a cutting edge app for all Apple and
Android devices. Tata Sky Mobile Access app is a natural integration of TV entertainment with
smart devices that allow subscribers to not only control their TV and set-top-boxes with their smart
devices, but also make their content choice based on what their friends and family are viewing
using the social platform.
Recently, the company further simplified its packages and introduced TruChoice, a genre based
packaging model which clubbed channels of the same genre in ONE pack. Riding on its success,
the company later introduced 'Make My Pack' service which empowers subscribers with the
option of creating their own pack with individual channels or a mix-n-match of the existing
TruChoice packs along with standalone channels.
Over the years, the brand has achieved significant milestones, industry accolades and is rated as
the No 1 DTH brand by the ET Brand Equity 2011 most trusted brand survey. It is also the first DTH
brand to get the prestigious 'Superbrand' status.
SPONSORS PROFILE
Disney UTV
The Walt Disney Company India started operations in July 2004 with its head office located in Mumbai
and has significantly expanded its footprint in February 2012 after acquiring a controlling stake in UTV,
one of India's premier media and entertainment companies. DisneyUTV's combined assets make it one
of the leading film studios and film distributors in India, one of the leading TV networks with nine popular
channels targeting kids, youth and families, a leading player in the digital, interactive and games
segment while it continues to be a prominent player in the consumer products space. Building around
four core brands – Disney, Marvel, UTV, Bindass – the new organization is dedicated to developing and
distributing the best in branded entertainment for Indian consumers across all age groups through films,
broadcasting, digital and consumer products.
BUSINESSES IN INDIA:
Media networks:
DisneyUTV's media network is a bouquet of nine specialty channels in the Kids, Youth and Movie
segments. It is one of the leading entertainment destinations in India, viewed by more than 100 million
viewers each week.
Digital
The Digital business of DisneyUTV India is the content creating hub of high-quality digital & interactive
content. It encompasses all mobile, video, audio, broadband, ITV, games and virtual world's initiatives,
with a combined audience reach of over 300 million in India. Previous successes from the Disney and
UTV teams in India include several innovative and popular products in the country including “Audio
Cinema”, “DivyaKathayein”, “Digital Studio”, “Sponsored Tweets”, successful mobile games such as
“Aladdin”, “DLF IPL Cricket”, “Cricket Fever”, “Ra.One Genesis” and “Club Penguin”, the #1 virtual world
for children in the country as well.
Studios
Bringing together the best of both worlds, The Walt Disney Studios and UTV Motion Pictures have
formed one of the leading film studios in India. The Studio's activities span across creative development,
production, marketing, distribution, licensing, merchandising and syndication of films in India and
worldwide.
UTV Motion Pictures as a dominant player in the Indian film industry has been in the forefront of bringing
Indian films to a global audience and the last decade in Indian cinema has seen UTV delivering some of
the most iconic films including Swades, Rang De Basanti, Jodhaa Akbar, A Wednesday, Dev D,
KhoslaKaGhosla, The Namesake, Life in a Metro, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Fashion, Kaminey, No One
Killed Jessica, Raajneeti, Udaan, Peepli Live, Delhi Belly and more recently Ek Main AurEkkTu, Paan
Singh Tomar, Rowdy Rathore, Heroine and Barfi!.
In 2011, UTV also became one of the few studios to successfully venture into South Indian cinema with
DeivaThirumagal and Muran, and has had a successful 2012 so far with Vettai, Kalakalappu@Masala
Café, Mugamoodi and Thaandavam in Tamil, Grandmaster and Husbands in Goa in Malayalam. UTV
has a library of over 70 films including Hindi, Regional, Animation and International Productions, which
have been showcased in over 50 festivals across 28 countries, receiving almost 250 awards in the last 7
years.
The Walt Disney Studios has seen unprecedented box office success in India with MARVEL's The
Avengers (distributed and marketed by UTV Motion Pictures) ; Cars 2 ; Pirates of the Caribbean 4 ;
Prince of Persia ; Do Dooni Chaar ; Anaganaga-O-Dheerudu ( a Telugu feature) ; and Zokkomon.
SPONSORS PROFILE
BAG Films & Media Ltd.
BAG Films & Media Ltd., one of the leading content creator powerhouses in India, was
incorporated in 1993 to explore new opportunities in Electronic and Multimedia Industry with a
vision to raise fundamentals of TV software development.
A Leading 360 degree media power house of India. Extended its 360-degree approach to its
diversification plan – encompassing Broadcasting, radio, convergence, media training and
production. Produced over 50,000 hours of programming in a cross genre of content. Has
produced prominent programmes like Kumkum, Sansani, KhulJaSimSim, Haqeeqat, Poll Khol,
Red Alert, Star Vivah, Mitwa-phoolKamalKe, Wanted, LooteriDulhan etc for Channels like Star
Plus, Star News, Imagine, Sony, Zee, Colors, Sahara etc. Established a media school 'ISOMES'
to produce in-house talent and to provide quality media education to its employees and outside
public, in collaboration with Missouri School, USA as well as entered into a MOU with FTII, Pune
for exchange of curricula and faculty. Has a convergence studio in Noida& Mumbai.
Promoters Profile:A postgraduate in Political Science, Ms. Prasad has presided the board of the
company since its inception. She has been associated with television throughout her career
spanning 25 years and hails from a rich work experience across different industry verticals. Ms.
Prasad has been an active member of the CII and FICCI Entertainment Committee. She is also an
executive member of The Film Producers Guild of India and is on the board of The Uttaranchal
Film Development Council.
Mr. Saurabh Tewari and Mr. Abhinav Shukla have come together for a joint venture for the
production of television serial & films for the masses, giving birth to Nautankifilms which is backed
by BAG Network24.
Mr. Abhinav Shukla is also the Director for BAG Network24, Mr. Saurabh Tewari on the other hand
has over a decade of experience with the television and entertaintment industry and has served
as the mastermid behind some epic television shows and channel launches.
The idea of using a taturi as the logo the Indian trumpet, signifies a call out to all announcing that
something loud, something new, something unexpected is coming your way with regards to
entertainment. We want to be the most talked about creative production house in the near future,
hence creating a lot of noise, buzz amongst the industry people as well as our audience. Weather
we create a big product or a small one the idea is to always be unique in delivering our content.
SPONSORS PROFILE
Coca-Cola
The Coca-Cola Company has always placed high value on good citizenship. At the heart of
business is a mission statement called the Coca-Cola Promise -- “The Coca-Cola Company
exists to benefit and refresh everyone that it touches.” This basic proposition means – that the
company's business should refresh the markets, protect, preserve and enhance the environment
and strengthen the community. Coca-Cola India provides extensive support for community
programs across the country, with a focus on education, health and water conservation. For
further information on Company's India operations and its products, please visit www.cocacolaindia.com
SPONSORS PROFILE
DEN Networks Limited
DEN Networks Limited is India's leading cable TV distribution company reaching an estimated 11
million households in 115 cities across India. DEN's presence spans key states across India
including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra (including Mumbai), Gujarat, Rajasthan,
Haryana, Kerala, West Bengal, Jharkhand and Bihar.
DEN Digital is one of India's leading digital television services offering consumers a wide choice of
digital channels and services along with cutting edge value added services and applications. DEN
Digital offers consumers an easy to use and feature rich Electronic Programming Guide (EPG).
DEN's interactive applications portfolio includes a multi-genre digital music service, City Bytes, a
restaurant and events search application, blog.telly, India's first micro blogging service on TV and
interactive games.
DEN has a 50-50 joint venture with News Corp's Star TV Group called Star DEN which was
formed in 2008. In May 2011, Star DEN formed a 50-50 J-V with Zee Turner combining the
distribution assets of the Star, Zee and Turner groups in India. The joint venture company called
Media Pro is the exclusive distribution house of over 70 leading pay TV channels in India.
SPONSORS PROFILE
Prime Focus
Prime Focus is a global Visual Entertainment Services group that provides creative and technical
services to the film, broadcast, commercials, gaming, internet and media industries. The group offers a
genuine end-to-end solution from pre-production to final delivery - including previsualisation, equipment
hire, visual effects, video and audio post-production, digital intermediate, digital asset management and
distribution.
Prime Focus employs more than 4500 people with state-of-the-art facilities throughout the key markets
of North America, the UK and India. Using its 'worldsourcing' business model, Prime Focus provides a
network that combines global cost advantages, resources and talent pool with strong relationships and a
deep understanding of the local markets.
The Technology arm of Prime Focus – Prime Focus Technologies:
The technology arm of Prime Focus is a global company in its own right, with a unique mix of Media and
IT skills. Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) provides a digital content and workflow management platform
to organisations that deal with content and are keen to exploit it across platforms.
CLEAR™ from Prime Focus Technologies is the world's first hybrid cloud multi-platform content
operations platform. It is a unique and secure way to produce, process, manage and deliver content for
revenue-generating multi-platform opportunities.
Accolades
CLEAR was recently awarded the Best of IBC 2010 by TVB Europe in the Content Management
category. The judges singled out CLEAR as one of the most outstanding products at the show, in terms of
innovation and cost-efficiency.
Prime Focus and Broadcasters
Providing services to the Broadcast market is an important part of Prime Focus' business across all of its
worldwide territories. From its market leading offering in London to its specialist services in New York,
Los Angeles and Mumbai, Prime Focus offers a specialised and experienced Broadcast VFX service,
covering all aspects of the process from script breakdown and storyboarding, to shoot supervision and
creative direction, to 3D animation, compositing and digital matte painting.
PFT works with some of the largest content owners in the world, including Doordarshan, STAR TV, IPL,
BCCI, Universal, Sony, BBC and HBO and the latest clients include Netflix and Associated Press.
CLEAR already has tens of thousands of hours of content under management for clients across
broadcasting, sports and advertising. During the 2010 IPL cricket tournament, it delivered 55 million
channel views, 30 million VoD views and over 25,000 hours of video downloads to mobile phones.
CLEAR helps Eros monetize its intellectual property by enabling the production, repurposing and
delivery of its content globally, across web, mobile and other new media platforms. Prime Focus is
providing Sony Pictures (United Kingdom) end-to-end QC services using the same platform.
Prime Focus Technologies' Digital Media Supply Chain
It has recently set up a digital media supply chain in the Indian Media and Entertainment industry linking
broadcasters, production houses, post houses, advertisers and creative & media agencies. It has
installed CLEAR Edge servers at leading broadcasters including Star, Sony, Turner, Eenadu and
Network 18 in India to provide a flexible and cost-effective solution for advertisement distribution within.
SPONSORS PROFILE
PVR Group
PVR Limited is among India's leading integrated media & entertainment players with a significant
presence in film entertainment (film exhibition, distribution and production) and retail
entertainment. Regarded as the pioneers of the multiplex revolution in India, PVR Cinemas
currently serve an aggregate of over 25 million patrons annually. It operates a geographically
diverse cinema circuit of 197 screens with a presence in 26 cities across India.
PVR Pictures is the flagship film production and distribution arm of PVR Limited and has built an
impressive film slate in Hindi & English which it markets and distributes. PVR Pictures made an
enormously successful film production debut in 2007 with 'Taare Zameen Par' (Aamir Khan) &
'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na' (Imran Khan & Genelia D'souza) and has continued to build on its creative
leadership in the Indian film industry since then. PVR Pictures also produced 'Aisha' (Abhay
Deol and Sonam Kapoor) with Anil Kapoor Films Company and 'Shanghai' (Emraan Hashmi,
Abhay Deol & Kalki) with Dibakar Banerjee Productions.
PVR Pictures is the No. 1 independent Hollywood Film Distributor in India and releases nearly 20
films theatrically every year. PVR Pictures has distributed award-winning films like The Iron Lady,
My Week with Marilyn, Ides of March, The Tree of Life, Biutiful, Drive and popular titles like Step
Up 3D, Haywire, Breaking Dawn, New Moon, Red and The Rum Diary.
PVR Pictures is led by its passionate promoters Ajay Bijli and Sanjeev K Bijli. Ajay Bijli is the
Chairman & Managing Director of PVR Ltd while Sanjeev K Bijli is the Joint Managing Director of
PVR Ltd.
SPONSORS PROFILE

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