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  • AdClub’s M.Ad Quiz to take place on 7 November

    AdClub’s M.Ad Quiz to take place on 7 November

    Mumbai: The Advertising Club’s most vibrant and entertaining event, M.Ad Quiz, is back with a bang. In association with Brand Quity, M.Ad Quiz will be held on Tuesday, 7 November 2023 at 5.30 pm at Jade Sky, Jade Garden Terrace, third floor, Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai, for the participating teams.

    The biggest attraction for the distinctiveness of the show is Derek O’Brien, who is the best in the business and would don the role of the quiz master.

    In addition to the participants from the world of media, advertising and marketing industries, bright and curious professionals from any industry sector are also welcome to participate including the students of business school.

    In an age of Google search, Chat GPT 4, curiosity which is a key ingredient of a curious and cognitively enriched mind has been the biggest casualty. But human ingenuity far exceeds the technology-led readymade answers that fail to nourish a curious mind and this is where is the attraction of M.Ad Quiz, as an answer to a creative mind that can shun the trap of mediocrity.

    The high-octane and immersive programme will have all the ingredients of fun and gratification through attractive gifts from leading brands for both the participants and the audience at large. The winners will stand to win gifts like Haier Refrigerator, Titan Watches, Hampers from Unilever, Garnier, Britannia, Mondelez, Dabur, Bombay Shaving Company, and Nestle.

    There will be two members per team. Every team can get five cheerleaders at no cost. The final six teams chosen will go on stage for the final session. One organization can send multiple teams.

    Entry fee for participation:

    • Entry Fee for Team: Rs 10500/- (two team members plus five cheerleaders)

    Donor Passes:

    • Gold Member: Rs 650/-

    • Silver Member: Rs 850/-

    • Ad club senior citizen member: Rs 500/-

    The event is followed by cocktails & dinner.

  • Mithun Chakraborty resigns Rajya Sabha seat on grounds of ill health

    Mithun Chakraborty resigns Rajya Sabha seat on grounds of ill health

    NEW DELHI: Yesteryears actor and dancing star Mithun Chakraborty, who had become a Member of the Rajya Sabha on behalf of the Trimanool Congress in April 2014, has resigned on ground of sickness.

    Mithun has resigned nearly one and half years before the end of his term.
    After his innings as the Grand Master on the Dancing reality show Dance India Dance, Mithun has generally avoided any public appearance and there have been unconfirmed reports of him suffering from prolonged illness.

    TMC leader Derek O’Brien was quoted by ANI as saying, “He resigned from RS on health grounds. We continue to share warm relationship with him and his family. We wish him speedy recovery”.

    He attended only three days of Parliament in nearly two years and Deputy Chairman P J Kurien also commented on this in the house.

    He has written to the Chairman that because of his health condition he is not been able to fulfil his duty in Rajya Sabha and that is why he is relinquishing his seat, sources added.
    His tensure has not been without controversy as he was named for his association with Saradha group. He later said Saradha had not paid his due amount.

    Mithun’s real name is Gourang Chakraborty but he is commonly referred as ‘Mithun Da’. Mithun began his career in the Indian film industry as a junior artist and went on to establish himself as a superstar.

    Mithun is also known for his fusion of “Disco and Desi”. He is also recognized as one of the best “dancing-heroes” in Bollywood.

  • Mithun Chakraborty resigns Rajya Sabha seat on grounds of ill health

    Mithun Chakraborty resigns Rajya Sabha seat on grounds of ill health

    NEW DELHI: Yesteryears actor and dancing star Mithun Chakraborty, who had become a Member of the Rajya Sabha on behalf of the Trimanool Congress in April 2014, has resigned on ground of sickness.

    Mithun has resigned nearly one and half years before the end of his term.
    After his innings as the Grand Master on the Dancing reality show Dance India Dance, Mithun has generally avoided any public appearance and there have been unconfirmed reports of him suffering from prolonged illness.

    TMC leader Derek O’Brien was quoted by ANI as saying, “He resigned from RS on health grounds. We continue to share warm relationship with him and his family. We wish him speedy recovery”.

    He attended only three days of Parliament in nearly two years and Deputy Chairman P J Kurien also commented on this in the house.

    He has written to the Chairman that because of his health condition he is not been able to fulfil his duty in Rajya Sabha and that is why he is relinquishing his seat, sources added.
    His tensure has not been without controversy as he was named for his association with Saradha group. He later said Saradha had not paid his due amount.

    Mithun’s real name is Gourang Chakraborty but he is commonly referred as ‘Mithun Da’. Mithun began his career in the Indian film industry as a junior artist and went on to establish himself as a superstar.

    Mithun is also known for his fusion of “Disco and Desi”. He is also recognized as one of the best “dancing-heroes” in Bollywood.

  • Media’s love-hate relation with politicians won’t change

    Media’s love-hate relation with politicians won’t change

    MUMBAI: Earlier in the day the comment about the “media being sold” by Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal hit the headlines. And it was just apt for NDTV editor Vishnu Som to kick off the session – Media as Opinion-Maker – which he was anchoring at the recently concluded FICCI Frames 2014 by posing the first question to the AAP representative Shazia Ilmi, who was in the panel along with Minister of state, IT and communications and shipping, government of India Milind Deora, BJP Maharashtra state unit president Devendra Phadnavis, Reliance entertainment chairman and FICCI convergence committee chairman Amit Khanna and All India Trinamool Congress representative and member of parliament Derek O’Brien.

     

    So, Ilmi was asked if it was right on Kejriwal’s part to shun the media as it was the media who made AAP. While she agreed that the media had been friendly to AAP, she also pointed out that it was left with no choice than to cover AAP as many others were doing it and the interest also lied there.

     

    Deora, however, presented quite a friendly take about media as he remarked, “When someone chooses to be a politician you are placing yourself under scrutiny. It is extremely immature to talk about media being fair or unfair.”

     

    As the discussion continued, many topics from the importance of “social media” in the general elections to the issue of BJP Prime Ministerial candidate avoiding an “one-on-one” talk with media came up.

     

    In fact Modi took a fair share of the time during the discussion. From his style of promoting himself to his recently devised campaign “Chai Pe Charcha” formed a major part of the conversation.

     

    “Modi believes in one way communication,” was the remark made by O’Brien to which Phadnavis retaliated by stating that Modi may not be talking to media but he is talking to the people through ‘Chai pe Charcha’.

     

    O’Brien didn’t miss an opportunity to take a potshot at the Congress also when he wittily remarked to Deora that it was the Congress’ Mani Shankar Aiyer, who gave Modi the lollypop by calling him a ‘chaiwala’.

     

    Even Ilmi thinks that Modi must come out and answer crucial questions as to what are his views on important policy decisions that need to be taken rather than just show his ‘model of Gujarat’.

     

    The discussion turned towards censorship when Khanna said that our country lacked a concrete form of a regulator such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the US. “We have the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) which does not actually have the mandate to regulate broadcast or content,” he said.

     

    We are standing at the brink of a media convergence occurring right in front of eyes but O’Brien says that it won’t be just social media that will be impactful in the future. “The mobile will be an important tool in the hands of every person in this country,” he said while also highlighting the fact that the real action was happening in regional media.

     

    Media in the country is no longer a form of public service. It is a combination of that and a business, which Som admitted himself. “If one is looking to the media as the sole repository of honest investigation of truth then unfortunately it does not exist currently,” he said.

     

    The one point that all politicians agreed was that they needed the media as much as media needed them and both the media as well as politicians were seeking to increase the level of engagement.