No frills. All business. That’s Alexander “Sandy” Brown for you. In and out of meetings at his headquarters in Singapore’s International Plaza, head down to the...
Director, writer and lyricist Sanjay Chhel is popularly called the king of one-liners. His terrific sense of humour which never fails to tickle the funnybone reinstates...
His diminutive size may well fool you. His high pitched voice may mislead you. But make no mistake. Sam Balsara is a powerhouse, a giant of...
Madison group of companies CMD Sam Balsara has over 25 years experience; eight in marketing with Sarabhais and Cadburys and rest in advertising with Contract (JWT),...
Young Turks. The fourth in indiantelevision.com’s series profiling the brightest and the best among the youth brigade in the Indian television industry, focuses this time on...
Conditional access may have been okayed by Parliament, but questions still haunt the industry. In its constant endeavour to present views of several experts and industry...
You would not be blamed if you missed Starcom Mediavest Group India’s general manager, investment and business development, in a crowd. With his hair cropped short,...
Ashutosh Srivastava looks a man still getting used to the lonely at the top state he’s been in since he took over from Andre Nair in...
The debate over conditional access system continues in India even as the government has set July 14, 2003 as the deadline for completing implementation of CAS...
A second generation scion belonging to a family of successful film makers has adapted to the small screen with ease! Ravi Chopra's drive, passion and talent...
When an advertising agency decides to get into feature film making, you can be sure it’s going to be a methodical affair.The Savita Raj promoted Tandav...
MUMBAI: Noted right-wing columnist MV Kamath will be the next chairman of the Prasar Bharati Board. A three-member committee headed by vice-president Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has...
People love to hate her but they dare not ignore her. As the shrewd and conniving Kamolika of Kasautii Zindagi Kay, Urvashi Dholakia is offering serious...
The Sahara India Parivaar, estimated to have a turnover of Rs 160 billion, has this knack of getting into the news and, most of the time,...
The Sahara India Parivaar, estimated to have a turnover of Rs 160 billion, has this knack of getting into the news and, most of the time,...
LG India, one of the official sponsors for the forthcoming World Cup cricket, has been in the spotlight of the cricket sponsorship row. The LG stance...
Conditional access may have been okayed by Parliament, but questions still haunt the industry. I&B minister Sushma Swaraj feels that post-CAS quite a few pay channels...
Initiative Media (IM) president Ashish Bhasin has ended the year on a high! Under his able guidance, the Interpublic Group company IM has attained billings of...
Lodestar Media executive director Shashi Sinha, an avid cricket fan, strongly believes that ‘media is a means to strategy! His viewpoint was justified when his agency...
She has been played a large role in taking the Sam Balsara promoted Madison Advertising , a 14-year old agency with capitalsied billings of Rs 4...
Beautiful, charming, suave and hard working are qualities that best define Poonam Dhillon. An actress who made heads turn with her debut film Noorie, when she...
Zee folklore has it that when Zee Telefilms was riding the crest of success a few years ago, a journalist came to do a cover story...
It‘s a quiet revolution. After keeping a low profile for a while, Zee English and Zee MGM, the two niche channels from the Zee stable, are...
MUMBAI: With the World Cup mania rising, the scramble for the advertising buck by sales people across channels is going to intensify. The folks who decide...
It’s a quiet revolution. After keeping a low profile for a while, Zee English and Zee MGM, the two niche channels from the Zee stable, are...
He cuts an impressive figure. One of the few to have seen the potential in the sports business and made money out of it. Meet Harish...
Doordarshan director general Dr S Y Quraishi was pretty upbeat on the evening of the announcement of its World Cup Cricket 2003 telecast plans on the...
Rohit Khanna is a specialist in real life dramas and docu-dramas. He has an impressive line-up of shows like Bhanwar and Haadsa behind him, apart from...
Rajat Jain is the man in the hot seat as MAX prepares to stir up passions, drum up hype and hoopla. The next three months will...
You would not be blamed if you missed Starcom Mediavest Group India’s general manager investment and business development in a crowd. With his hair cropped short,...
“There is a maverick in each one of us”, says Starcom MediaVest Group India’s general manager, investment and business development, Ravi Kiran. “Some of us find...
Our astrological show Kahani Kismat Ki will complete 1000 episodes over the course of this month. The success of the half hour daily show at 10:30...
Shekhar Suman is back and with a bang. His Simply Shekhar opened to healthy reviews from all quarters. Simply Shekhar also marks Suman’s debut as producer....
Early Edition, the series, commenced telecast on Hallmark since September. The hero, Gary Hobson ,is a man who gets the newspaper one day in advance, courtesy...
It’s not often that one of CNN’s star anchors comes calling in India. And when it comes to business matters, even less so. It may be...
Anjan Shrivastava is your ordinary neighbourhood Joe. With a difference. The man has fought against the odds and made a mark for himself in the theatre...
Technical Director of the Asia Pacific Broadcast Union, Om Khushu has 40 years of experience in broadcasting. At Doordarshan he rose to become engineer-in-chief. During his...
India would take about 10 years to catch up with China as a market, but the political and social vibrancy of the country and the zeal...
Very few writers begin their foray into TV writing with a soap as popular as Kkusum. Bharavi Shah, who does the screenplay of Sony’s flagship soap...
Think of Mukesh Khanna and the image of ‘Shaktimaan‘ springs to mind. Or is it ‘Bheeshma Pitamaha‘. He is one of those rare actors who lives...
Young Turks. The third in indiantelevision.com’s series profiling the brightest and the best among the youth brigade in the Indian television industry, focuses this time on...
A alumnus from the National School of Drama, B M Vyas has experience of more than 15 years writing for film and TV. Also associated with...
Jonathan Howlett, global director of airtime sales of BBC World, is no stranger to India. He has come to the sub-continent often and is a keen...
The National Geographic Channel is slowly but surely trying to carve a niche for itself by introducing different genres of programming. The latest initiative challenges the...
A chance meeting changed her life. Mandira Bedi was a working girl, just out of campus and freelancing for an advertising project when the director of...
The cell phone buzzes constantly, but Apurva Purohit, president of Zee TV, the flagship channel of the Subhash Chandra-promoted Zee Telefilms, doesn’t mind attending to the...
The Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Telefilms could not have been going through a worse phase. With TRPs of programmes failing to register in the Top 50...
Young Turks. Indiantelevision.com’s new series profiling the brightest and the best among the youth brigade in the Indian television industry. Under the spotlight are the men...
LONDON: News Corp technology arm NDS Group has responded to the latest suit filed against it by Malaysian billionaire Ananda Krishnan’s satellite group, MEASAT Broadcast Network...
Gentle, suave Bhagyashree, an actress with simplicity typical to actresses of yesteryears ,began her acting career with tele-serial Kachchi Dhoop by Amol Palekar. The child...