Tag: Ankur Garg

  • Riya Group partners with Air India Express

    Riya Group partners with Air India Express

    Mumbai: Riya Group has announced a strategic alliance with Air India Express, a subsidiary of Air India. This enterprising collaboration integrates Riya’s comprehensive visa services on the airline’s website, enabling customers to promptly access and apply for visas to any destination worldwide.

    Riya Group’s established vertical Riya Visa Services aims to ease the pre-travel booking journey for customers with its extensive suite of services. This includes worldwide visa applications, processing of all visa types, checklist updates, status checks and much more.

    Integrating a one-stop approach, this progressive step is conceived to ease the visa application process and enhance a traveller’s holistic booking journey on the Air India Express website. Passengers no longer need to navigate multiple websites to expedite their visa application process. This customer-centric outlook will enable users to browse flights and apply for their visas all in one place.

    Speaking on this lucrative partnership, Riya Group vice chairman Nitin John said “Visa has been one of our most promising and fast-growing verticals. Even before Riya Group pioneered holistic solutions for travel partners, we offered extensive visa services to appease the growing demands in the 80s. Today, through this alliance with the esteemed Air India Express, we are excited to expand our reach and enhance traveller’s experience even before their trip begins. This strategic collaboration aims to curb the prevailing challenges a passenger undergoes in planning their journey. Hence, this integration of comprehensive visa services directly on the airline’s website is our progressive step towards easing a traveller’s visa processing experience.”

    In addition, Air India Express chief commercial officer Ankur Garg states “At Air India Express, we are unwavering in our dedication to optimising the travel experience for our valued guests. The introduction of our new Visa Services effectively eliminates the longstanding challenges associated with the often-arduous visa application process. By leveraging this innovative platform, travellers can now navigate a streamlined and efficient system, minimising wait times and eliminating the need for physically visiting visa application centres.”

  • Kinnect appoints Ankur Garg as ECD for its Delhi & Bengaluru offices

    Kinnect appoints Ankur Garg as ECD for its Delhi & Bengaluru offices

    Mumbai: Creative, data, and digital media powerhouse Kinnect on Thursday announced the appointment of Ankur Garg as Executive Creative Director-Art. Garg will handle operations for the company’s Delhi and Bengaluru offices. He will be based in Delhi and report to Kinnect national head-design Priyanka Mestry Soni.

    Garg brings with him 15 years of experience and has worked with agencies such as Lintas, JWT, Hakuhodo, FCB ULKA and Dentsu Impact, with experience working on some of the notable brands such as Indian Army, NACO, Airtel, ESPN Star Sports, Sony, Monte Carlo, Airtel, Docomo, Indian Super League (Delhi team), Hitachi, Antara Senior Living, Max Healthcare, NetFlix, Herbalife Nutrition, IKEA, Subway, Carlsberg, HT Media, Parryware and Vmart.

    Speaking on the appointment, Soni said, “I am delighted to welcome Ankur to Kinnect and have him become a part of our exciting digital journey. His ability to lead people by example and push their limits to bring out their best is precisely what I was looking for in a partner to help me grow the team. His understanding of our creative process and culture, and the enthusiasm he brings to the table to do award-worthy work, is impressive. With him by our side, I’m looking forward to elevating our work and expanding the art team in the Delhi and Bangalore locations.”

    “The best thing about advertising is that it unfolds a whole new chapter every time you get deeper into it. The shift in digital is happening worldwide where advertising and content are battling with each other now. Most of the content unfolds on phones or laptops, which leads to thinking of more impactful design and art solutions. Kinnect offers a rich playfield for ideas and design that ride on digital and tech. With this mandate, I look forward to building on Kinnect’s existing strengths and capabilities in design and ideas with the team here. The creative energy here is irresistible, and I look forward to partnering with some of the best talents to drive design and ideas and build on the Delhi and Bengaluru offices. The time has come to unlearn and learn much more, and I see many innovations and experiments soon here,” added Garg.

  • Pyaar ka Panchnama’s Luv Ranjan & Ankur Garg to launch digital sitcom ‘Life Sahi Hai’

    Pyaar ka Panchnama’s Luv Ranjan & Ankur Garg to launch digital sitcom ‘Life Sahi Hai’

    MUMBAI: Luv Films, a venture from the writer and director of Pyaar Ka Punchnama, Luv Ranjan, is all geared to enter the digital space with its sitcom Life Sahi Hai. Starting 24 May, the first episode of the series has already been shot, while the trailer will roll-out the first look of the show on 18 May.

    Produced by Ranjan and partner and producer Ankur Garg under their company Luv Films and created by Tarun Jain, co-writer of Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, the 12 episodic and 20 minute long series will feature multiple directors during the entire season’ tenure. The company has struck cash plus media deals with three sponsors. While Himalaya Herbals Men is the powered by sponsor, Mahindra Gusto 125 is  the associate sponsor.

    “The viewers will see the brands being seamlessly integrated in our series. Life Sahi Hai shows friendship amongst guys and is on a similar zone to my movie. As a company producing and distributing youthful and quality content, we’re thrilled to see our story come alive on the no holds barred online medium”, notes Garg.

    He further adds, “Digital gives us the liberty to broadcast content without any constraints. We will mostly likely launch one episode per week There has been an immense boom in the online space in recent times and going by the opportunities that this medium offers, we are certain about achieving scale and building a brand from Life Sahi Hai”.

    Completely shot in HD quality, the series is about four boys in their early 20’s, who come from different parts of India to live together independently for the first time, in Delhi, right after college. Coming from diverse backgrounds and having lived very different lives, the guys don’t immediately get along with each other. But feeding off each other’s strengths for help in professional as well as personal problems, they soon become buddies. Actors Tarun Jain, Suhail Nayyar, Abhishek Saha and Siddhant Chaturvedi will be seen essaying the characters of the four boys.

    A source close to the development reveals that the production cost for one episode will approximately be Rs 22 lakh to 24 lakh.

  • Pyaar ka Panchnama’s Luv Ranjan & Ankur Garg to launch digital sitcom ‘Life Sahi Hai’

    Pyaar ka Panchnama’s Luv Ranjan & Ankur Garg to launch digital sitcom ‘Life Sahi Hai’

    MUMBAI: Luv Films, a venture from the writer and director of Pyaar Ka Punchnama, Luv Ranjan, is all geared to enter the digital space with its sitcom Life Sahi Hai. Starting 24 May, the first episode of the series has already been shot, while the trailer will roll-out the first look of the show on 18 May.

    Produced by Ranjan and partner and producer Ankur Garg under their company Luv Films and created by Tarun Jain, co-writer of Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2, the 12 episodic and 20 minute long series will feature multiple directors during the entire season’ tenure. The company has struck cash plus media deals with three sponsors. While Himalaya Herbals Men is the powered by sponsor, Mahindra Gusto 125 is  the associate sponsor.

    “The viewers will see the brands being seamlessly integrated in our series. Life Sahi Hai shows friendship amongst guys and is on a similar zone to my movie. As a company producing and distributing youthful and quality content, we’re thrilled to see our story come alive on the no holds barred online medium”, notes Garg.

    He further adds, “Digital gives us the liberty to broadcast content without any constraints. We will mostly likely launch one episode per week There has been an immense boom in the online space in recent times and going by the opportunities that this medium offers, we are certain about achieving scale and building a brand from Life Sahi Hai”.

    Completely shot in HD quality, the series is about four boys in their early 20’s, who come from different parts of India to live together independently for the first time, in Delhi, right after college. Coming from diverse backgrounds and having lived very different lives, the guys don’t immediately get along with each other. But feeding off each other’s strengths for help in professional as well as personal problems, they soon become buddies. Actors Tarun Jain, Suhail Nayyar, Abhishek Saha and Siddhant Chaturvedi will be seen essaying the characters of the four boys.

    A source close to the development reveals that the production cost for one episode will approximately be Rs 22 lakh to 24 lakh.