MUMBAI: Edtech major Byju’s has onboarded Jiten Mahendra as the new vice president & head marketing. Before joining the edtech company, Mahendra was with retail and hospitality conglomerate, Landmark Group for over 12 years, where he drove the sales for “MAX” Fashion as senior vice president marketing, he shared the news of his appointment on LinkedIn.
Earlier, sharing the development of his moving on from The Landmark Group, Mahendra said, “My 12 year long innings with #landmarkgroup group and #maxfashion comes to an end.”
“I can sum up this whole journey in two words “Passion” and “Perseverance” can make anything happen,” he further wrote, concluding with, “End of your journey is the beginning of the new one”.
Previously, Mahendra has been associated with brands such as Mahindra & Mahindra, Kansai Nerolac Paints, Zydus Cadila and Unilever, among others.
MUMBAI: Ten-minute grocery delivery app and the youngest entrant on the quick commerce scene, Zepto launched its latest IPL campaign last week. Crafted by L&K Saatchi and Saatchi, the third film in what has been a high decibel campaign in more ways than one considering it features powerhouse singers has veteran versatile vocalist Usha Uthup displaying her vocal prowess this time, after Kailash Kher and Shankar Mahadevan.
Aiming to emphasise the time-stretching habits prevalent in our society, the brand films showcase each of the three artists in never-before-seen avatars, stretching their vocal chords in uncharacteristic settings: Kailash Kher as a cocky waiter in a crowded eatery, Shankar Mahadevan as a cool-as-cucumber airline staff at an airport and now Usha Uthup as a matronly nurse in a clinic’s waiting room.
Speaking to IndianTelevision.com, Zepto chief marketing officer Amritansu Nanda reveals the brief given by the brand to the agency for the campaign. “Our consumers lead busy, fast-paced lives, and most of them are not used to having their time valued. The concept of our campaign roots from this very human insight that time is seen as an expendable commodity in India (hence the caption ‘Time kheechne ki aadat se pareshaan’)”.
Whether you are waiting for your food at a restaurant or to board a flight, the infamous ‘Indian Stretchable Time’ is something we’ve all experienced, he continues. “Through our communication, we wanted to bring in a shift and a surprise- Assure our consumers that we value their time and surprise them with how Zepto delivers on time.”
The objective of the campaign, says Nanda, was to move beyond functional communication that only highlights instant gratification, to “a more meaningful, relatable story that aligns with the concept of time”. “We wanted to build stronger resonance amongst the existing TG while acquiring new digitally-savvy consumers.” Beyond it all, the idea was to build a campaign that cultivates competitive mindshare for Zepto; one with high repeat viewability, stickiness, and consumer love for the brand, he adds.
On enlisting the three celebrity singers Shankar Mahadevan, Kailash Kher and Usha Uthup for the ad films, Nanda says, “We wanted to bring in faces that share a deeper connect with our core TG- millennials & Gen Z’s, and also lend credibility to the brand and its concept.”
Stating that the campaign was a critical milestone in Zepto’s journey towards becoming synonymous with quick-commerce, he asserts, “Kailash Kher, Shankar Mahadevan, and Usha Uthup in their unusual roles didn’t just bring alive the concept of ‘Indian Stretchable Time’ in their inimitable style, but also made the case for Zepto and its on-time delivery promise with relatability at its core.” The campaign delivered the perfect blend of entertainment and salience, cutting through the clutter during IPL, he adds.
Being a digitally native brand, Zepto chose to run its IPL campaign on the OTT platform Disney+Hotstar instead of opting for television or on-ground sponsorship, as it speaks to the ‘digitally-savvy’ audience. The brand is stoked with the response that all three of the brand films have been receiving across digital platforms. Says Nanda, “With Hotstar as our central platform, we were able to target the perfect set of audiences across our ten core markets.” The campaign has certainly helped us drive awareness, engagement & trials, he says signing off.
MUMBAI: The world is now entering the third connected age and it is going to have a huge impact on various areas of advertising and marketing. Shifts are happening including data connecting to data, which is machine learning. Artificial Intelligence is fuelling everything including marketing, advertising services, and biotech.
Advisor, speaker, and educator Rishad Tobaccowala who is also an author spoke at the MMA India seminar called ‘Impact India: The Future of Modern Marketing’ recently. While addressing at the event, he noted that the first shift going on in the third connected age is machine learning. The second shift going on in the third connected age besides machine learning is that there are much faster ways of connecting like Jio which has had a massive impact. “In the next few years, India will move faster and faster to 5G. It is very resilient and one can download a high definition movie in seven seconds or less. It will open up more things,” added Tobaccowala during his talks at the event.
He also highlighted that mobility will not just be about the mobile device. It could be things like glasses, and headphones because the third shift will be about new ways of connecting. He gives the example of ‘Voice’ and this will continue as devices become smaller and more powerful. Also, augmented reality technology will become important. Virtual reality will also happen though it is in its early days. It will have a big impact on areas like gaming which is already bigger than movies and gambling. The fourth shift will be new trust currencies emerging and blockchain will be the key factor. This third connected age will build on the first and second connected ages and will change the way the world of marketing exists.
He noted that 1993 was the first connected age with the world wide web where people connected to interact. That gave birth to businesses like search and e-commerce and to companies like Google and Amazon. In 2007 there was the second connected age which was about being connected all the time and it gave rise to mobile, and social media. Today, most traffic in the US comes from mobile and unlikely from the desktop. These three ages build on each other and they will not replace each other.
He noted that Audience, Brands, Content, Data and Enterprise are now significantly shifting. Every marketer recognises that they do not just send messages to audiences. Increasingly, customers are becoming active rather than passive.
He also spoke about the move towards re-aggregated rather than segmented marketing. In the latter, you take large audiences and make them smaller audiences like TV, newspapers including others. In the former, you are able to thrive in the digital age. You start with an audience of one and re-aggregate him/her through things like decision engines.
He mentioned three trends that will grow when one talks about brands. The first is that brands will increasingly become experiences. That is important as a great experience will result in people speaking about it and becoming loyal. Second, the brand’s purpose will become important. What does a company stand for? The third new trend is branding as employees. In the future, no company will survive without its employees and suppliers. “The most important advocate for brands even more than happy customers is happy employees,” he added.
In terms of content, he noted that it is impossible to put content into a bucket. He gave the example of seeing an ad on Tiktok while travelling in a car resulting in him buying a product at a store. Is it ATL or BTL? Is it offline or online? Is it mobile e-commerce or social? Is it analogue or digital? It was all those. Content is morphing and so is marketing. Also, new content creators are changing pretty dramatically.
He mentions the fact that more views and interactions are happening for Instagram, and Youtube creators than those who watch the Superbowl. New kinds of content will emerge. In terms of data, he said marketers must recognise that data alone is not the way brands are built. It is about how you extract meaning from data, and how you tell stories utilising data. The big mistake people make is thinking that data by itself is the differentiator. Connecting data to other things in a company is what will make the difference. Less than half a dozen companies have special data. So, it is how you use, and leverage data to tell stories. That is important because human beings choose with their hearts to make purchases. Then they use data to justify what they just did. That is what happens 7 out of 10 times.
The future is about data-driven storytelling, not data-driven marketing. Marketers cannot be only driven by data numbers otherwise they will be out of a job, he warned.
He stressed that marketing is about stories & insights and not just about data and algorithms. Pure numbers are not the answer.
Enterprise, he said, is rethinking the way an organisation is set up for the future. The future, he cautions cannot fit into the containers of the past. The best marketing companies, he said, revolve around people speaking up freely and challenging each other. That is how ideas are born. Also, the best companies constantly reinvent themselves.
So, how does one do this? First, constantly learn, he said and added that if marketers do not then they will fake it and will become irrelevant as individuals, marketers and businesspersons. Marketers must set aside an hour a day to learn new things.
Also, marketers must build a case for the exact opposite of what they believe. That will strengthen an argument. Third, learn new technologies by doing things. “Learn, do, build the case for the opposite” he concluded.
Mumbai: Altbalaji senior vice president marketing partnerships and revenue Divya Dixit has moved on. She confirmed the development to Indiantelevision.com and is currently serving her notice period.
Dixit joined Balaji Telefilms in September 2018 and has been leading its OTT platform Altbalaji’s direct subscription growth and marketing for its originals. She was previously associated with Zee5 as vice president of marketing and direct revenue.
Dixit has two decades of experience in the media industry with stints at Star TV Network, Saregama India, UTV, Sony Entertainment Television and Percept.
The popular dating app QuackQuack has witnessed a massive jump of 2 million users in the past five months and currently stands at 17 million registered users in India. To celebrate this milestone, the dating platform has launched a new ad campaign “Match to hoga hi”.
As young Indians become more confident about dating apps, QuackQuack’s ad campaign aims to reach audiences in tier 2 cities where 70 percent of the new users come from.
The ad campaign aims to encourage people to join their huge community and find the right match for themselves.
Through this campaign, the brand also aims to reinforce that dating does not have to be difficult and it is extremely easy to find a match and connect with new people while keeping your comfort in mind.
The lockdowns have witnessed a massive increase in Indians using dating apps, but the return to normalcy has made everyone even more comfortable to connect and meet with new people through dating apps and it’s clearly evident in the growth numbers of QuackQuack.
QuackQuack founder and CEO Ravi Mittal commented on the campaign and said, “It is extremely exciting to witness so many people connect and find a match for themselves with QuackQuack. When we started back in 2010 things were quite different but over the years, people have really embraced dating apps and especially QuackQuack. We reached 15 million users in December 2021 and by May 2022 we have gained 2 million new users with the app currently being at 17 million registered users in India. Keeping our growing community in mind, we are working on introducing many new concepts that help people engage better and are looking forward to welcoming many new people.”
Mumbai: The retention cloud leader, CleverTap on Thursday has announced that it has signed definitive agreements to fully acquire San Francisco based Leanplum, a leading multi-channel customer engagement platform, for an undisclosed amount.
This acquisition will make CleverTap a truly global company with development centers and customer-facing and success teams across North America, Europe, Latin America, India, South East Asia and the Middle East. Combining the product stack of the two organizations, this acquisition will enhance CleverTap’s capabilities and take its total customer base to over 1200 in more than 100 countries around the world. The deal is expected to close in Q2 of 2022.
Together CleverTap and Leanplum will work with digital brands to help increase their users’ engagement, retention and lifetime value by making every user experience hyper-personalized, relevant and contextual at scale in real-time.
CleverTap and Leanplum will now bring real-time hyper-personalization, A/B testing and increased scalability to its omnichannel engagement, analytics and segmentation product lines. As a result, growth and marketing teams globally will now be able to utilize the only end-to-end user engagement and retention cloud platform, enabling them to break down user communication silos and increase the overall lifetime value of each user.
CleverTap co-founder and executive chairman Sunil Thomas, “We are seeing a seismic shift in the marketing technology landscape. Users today demand to be treated as individuals, and this has forced brands to change how they engage with them. CleverTap and Leanplum have both purposely built for a mobile-centric omnichannel world.”
The acquisition, he says, combines platforms and teams to deliver the best behaviour analytics, segmentation, and engagement tools that will enable digital brands to build valuable, long-term relationships with their users. “Our combined strength will be a game-changing force for user engagement, retention and monetization, creating tremendous value for our customers. I am very excited to welcome Leanplum to the CleverTap family.”
“When we started Leanplum, our vision was to meet customers’ real-time needs at the cutting edge of technology,” said Leanplum’s Co-founder and chief product officer Momchil Kyurkchiev. “We have succeeded in that, but as the market has matured, to fully meet the increasing demands put on brands today, we needed to bring in the best analytics, segmentation, and engagement tools, to help our customers build valuable, long-term relationships with their customers. This is why joining forces with CleverTap makes the most sense, and I am excited about the combined capabilities we will now bring to Leanplum customers worldwide.”
“I am looking forward to the journey with Leanplum. This coming together with Leanplum marks a monumental moment across the marketing technology landscape,” said CleverTap Chief Executive Officer Sidharth Malik. “This bridges the gap created by multiple martech tools and customer data platforms and will meet the growing needs of user-obsessed digital brands in a much more efficient way. Our ‘better together’ vision is about integrating our cumulative strengths around people, process and technology to cement our position as the global leader in the user engagement and retention space.”
“Joining forces allows us to bring advanced product and technology capabilities as brands strive to do live segmentation, anticipate user intentions and actions, automate and deploy real-time campaigns for the highest possible conversions, all from one single dashboard,” he added.
Mumbai: The digital marketing agency, PivotRoots has acquired DeepFlux, a MarTech consultancy, for an undisclosed amount. The company will integrate DeepFlux into its Martech lab and consulting division, PivotConsult, in line with its vision to build a result-oriented marketing lab of the future.
Deepflux Co-founder Abhimanyu Vyas will join Yogesh Kothari in leading the new entity PivotConsult as business head. Tarun Taneja who had joined as a late-stage co-founder at DeepFlux would continue being a part of PivotConsult. He was heading AI and ML at DeepFlux & will continue to lead for the joint entity.
Speaking on the acquisition, DeepFlux co-founder Abhimanyu Vyas said, “We believe this association will prove to be a game-changer in serving the needs of Indian and global customers with data analytics and ML-based marketing solutions, especially in the Direct to Consumer(D2C) solutions space to stronghold their pivot’s marketing strategy.
PivotConsult Business head Yogesh Kothari said, “Abhimanyu & team have done a great job in shaping up Deepflux in the last 3 years. They have built some great products across retail, entertainment and digital acquisition pieces and have done some great work in the measurement & CDP part, the acquisition will help us grow faster, with DeepFlux we are already a 35-member team doing some great work for clients across verticals.”
“Our vision is to build a result-oriented marketing lab and consulting vertical that will drive greater efficiencies and outputs for our current and future clients. I am delighted to welcome Abhimanyu, Tarun and the DeepFlux team to PivotRoots as we continue to strengthen our offer to local and global brands,” added PivotRoots Co-founder & Managing Director Shibu Shivanandan.
DeepFlux’s client base includes Disney, Grasim Industries, Fox Studios, Tata Starquik, Damensch, Woodland, GFK, and AT Kearney amongst others.
Mumbai: SEO company Infidigita has won the SEO mandate for Khatabook, a Bangalore-based SaaS FinTech company. The partnership aims to help Khatabook achieve its marketing objectives via organic channels.
Following this association, Infidigit will work closely with Khatabook to help it expand its organic reach and develop a distinctive identity in the country’s business landscape.
Infidigit is also responsible for delivering organic recommendations to help drive traffic and further strengthen its SEO processes.
Khatabook SEO manager Kiran Kurnool said, “We are partnering with Infidigit to strategise and elevate our brand image. The team identified the key attributes of our SEO and developed a strategy that has a higher chance of becoming a success. Also, we were impressed with the team’s enthusiasm when it came to optimising our site, and I am hopeful that it will help us reach out to the appropriate audience.”
Infidigit founder and MD Kaushal Thakkar, said, “Khatabook is a visionary brand that I know will revolutionise how Indian SMEs manage business finance. We are delighted to collaborate with them to create organic digital growth via the Khatabook website. We will be creating the SEO strategy, roadmap and content assets to make Khatabook’s digital journey even more successful and boost organic growth.”
MUMBAI : Mothers everywhere and, perhaps, more so in India are held to unreasonably high standards, wherein they are expected to lean in at work whilst remaining primarily responsible for the domestic front. This perennial balancing act leads to an intense pressure to ‘perfectly’ manage both work and home for most working moms today, or ends with guilt about their inability to live up to socio-cultural ideals of a ‘good mother.’ It is this narrative that Prega News’ latest campaign #SheIsImperfectlyPerfect released ahead of Mother’s Day chooses to highlight and challenge. The pregnancy detection brand from the house of Mankind Pharma unveiled the second leg of the campaign on Thursday with celebrity influencers and mom bloggers that further attempts to normalise a more ‘realistic’ version of motherhood.
IndianTelevision.com caught up with Mankind Pharma general manager- sales & marketing Joy Chatterjee to find out what drives the brand to challenge societal stereotypes on a sensitive subjects like pregnancy and motherhood. The interaction also saw a deep dive into the brand’s journey from 2007 to becoming a leader in the category with an 82 per cent market share through its marketing activities.
According to the brand, it has witnessed a steep spike of over 20 per cent in its demand during the Covid-19 lockdown, and has been growing in healthy double digits annually. Over the years, Prega News has managed to create a unique brand proposition, becoming synonymous with ‘at-home pregnancy detection.’
A marketeer who self-confessedly “works to balance bottom and top line” with more than 20 years of Industry experience, Chatterjee currently heads the OTC division of brands like Manforce, Health ok, Gasofast, Acnestar, Unwanted 72 etc- apart from Preganews- at Mankind Pharma, having joined the company in 2006.
By Anupama Sajeet
Edited excerpts:
What was the thought behind the #SheIsImperfectlyPerfect concept, and why do you think it is essential to get these conversations going?
There is always needless pressure on every mom to be perfect, which puts her in self-doubt about being a good mother. The campaign encourages society to embrace the imperfection of a mother who is always on her toes to work best for her child. The entire ad was curated with the aim to spread the message that it’s completely fine to be not so perfect. The film breaks the age-old narrative of mothers always portrayed as the perfect personalities, highly adept at everything they do. It disintegrates this stereotypical image of a mother who always forces herself to be perfect in everything.
With time the number of working women has increased over the years and the trend of living in a nuclear family has been evolving as a lifestyle option. Considering that this number is only going to escalate in the future, it is important to have conversations around embracing the imperfection of a mother to not pressurise the new generation and make them scared to enter the motherhood phase in their lives. We have all observed that working mothers are always chasing the balance between her job and being a mother. The pressure of being perfect makes her life stressful. We don’t want our mothers to live in any stress or guilt for not being able to meet the expectations of a “perfect mother” imposed by society.
What worked in favour of creating brand recall value for Prega News since its inception?
Since its inception in 2007, throughout the journey, the brand focused on educating women and their families about pregnancy to break the stereotypical mindsets and to address the myths existing in society. We continuously come up with campaigns be it on digital or on TVC to spread awareness and take a firm stand on what we believe in as a brand. These campaigns helped us in creating a special bond with the target audience.
One thing that majorly worked in our favour was that we were determined to develop an emotional connect with the audience by shedding light on the various issues faced by women and also portraying an inclusive conversation aimed at bringing about a social change. The primary purpose at Prega News is not to promote the product but we strive to touch upon the lives of our consumers and create awareness around the sensitive topic of pregnancy. We closely study the problems existing in society and come up with solutions to help people get acquainted with the options they have ahead. At Prega News through our initiatives, we urge the people to be more responsible when it comes to pregnancy.
Given that this method (pregnancy home test kit) was very new for the rural masses, we strived to create awareness around pregnancy care for which we worked towards breaking the stereotype connected to pregnancy detection cards in rural India. Considering the intensity of preconceived notions existing in these parts of the country, we tied up with Asha workers and local NGOs who hold a strong influence on people as key opinion leaders for effective message reception amongst the audience. Also, to create awareness, we organised a caravan activity for 25 days across 125 districts of Uttar Pradesh to establish a better line of engagement with the people there through door-to-door invitations, announcements and distribution of gifts, and many fun activities. We took the opportunity to give detailed information on the do’s and don’ts during the pregnancy. From the proper diet with the right nutrition to what food to avoid was touched upon at large in the activity.
Over the years, the brand has collaborated with some of B-town’s leading actors and of late, influencers. What was the idea behind roping in celebrities?
We aimed at leveraging the various tools to increase our visibility amongst the potential audience throughout the journey of Prega News. When we started in 2007 we wanted to make the brand a household name by making it acquainted with the people at large. For which we collaborated with Neha Marda who was a popular face at that time in every household. Therefore, by roping in Marda we were able to introduce our product in the market. Over the time when we realised that Prega News has made a decent place in the market we wanted to amplify our reach by making it the top brand in the country. For this, we collaborated with leading B-town actors such as Kareena Kapoor Khan, Anushka Sharma and Shilpa Shetty to give mileage to our brand reception. Further to penetrate deeper into the market we also ventured into influencer campaigns where we roped in more than 21 regional mommy bloggers in an influencer activity campaign to spread awareness about the important RTBs of Prega News for expectant mothers.
Considering that pregnancy is a very sensitive topic, what is the primary challenge you have faced in the segment?
The lack of awareness amongst the people is the biggest challenge the brand faces till now. From the very initial stage, it has been a persistent roadblock acting as a deterrent that makes people skeptical about the product and inhibits them from coming forward to find solution to their persisting problem. Hence, to overcome the challenge we realised that along with the promotion of the product we needed to elaboratively talk about the sensitive problem of pregnancy at the root level and encourage women to break free from their inhibitions and come forward to try new solutions to improve the quality of their lives. To achieve this, we continuously organise on-ground events and collaborate with local NGOs and Asha workers to throw light on various aspects of pregnancy and make women acquainted with family planning as an important option.
How do you plan to further amplify the brand’s penetration into the market?
To penetrate deeper into the market beyond the metropolitan cities, we take an alternate route, as mentioned earlier. In order to reach out to the masses beyond metropolitan cities, we deliver content in their preferred vernacular language to ensure better reception. Previously, we have launched Shakti Awareness program to spread awareness about the product’s benefits. Through the programme, we stressed upon how the pregnancy detection kits were important for early pregnancy detection that could help in reducing any chances of health hazards for the baby as well as the mother. We tied up with local Asha workers and NGOs to spread our message and establish a more personal interaction with the local people. They became the solution providers for the women in the village, helping them with the healthcare-related needs.
The entire campaign was unique as it was the first time ever a pregnancy detection card brand had initiated rural activation. We organised local events at the field level to better interact with the audience. We invited 50 to 100 Asha workers and gynecologists to spread awareness around pregnancy and contraception. To date, we have organised 20 such events by tapping around 750 Asha workers across India.
Share about your recent inroads into regional markets with local brand ambassadors.
Over the years, we have realised that content is better received and reciprocated in the regional language. Audiences are better able to form connections with the brand and understand the comprehensive message the brand wants to convey when it is communicated in their own mother tongue. Hence, multilingual campaigns help in entering into a more concentrated market that lies beyond the metropolitan cities but can make up for a larger customer base. Hence, understanding that vernacular content enhances the brand penetration into the regional market, recently we collaborated with Kajal Aggarwal for a TVC as she is a well-known face in the South, helping us form better connectivity with the masses there. Prior to this, we had also roped in Priyamani to amplify our presence in the South and reach the remotest parts of the market. Likewise, Prega News is focusing to expand its visibility in other regional areas as well and has roped in Bengali Film actress Srabanti Chatterjee as the brand ambassador of West Bengal to intensify its reach and regional connection in West Bengal.
Tell us about your future plans. Any upcoming announcements in 2022?
Currently portraying a market share of 82 per cent, Prega News has marked consistent growth and come a long way from 67 per cent in 2019. Passionate to further expand our product into the unorganised and unbranded market we strive to form an emotional connection with the expectant mothers not just in metropolitan cities but make our presence felt in the rural market as well. Considering that the segment penetration across the country is very narrow, we are working towards a unified goal of increasing the penetration of kits from 17 per cent to 26 per cent by 2026.
We are intensively reaching out to small towns with the help of our rural outreach strategy to penetrate deeper into the regional market. Last year we launched an awareness drive with Asha workers in Lucknow to create awareness around the use of contraceptives and pregnancy detection cards. It was our first interactive session in Malihabad, Bachhwaran (Lal Ganj), Nawabganj (Unnao), Varanasi, Meerut, Kolhapur, Patna, and Bulandsheher in Lucknow and Bihar aimed at breaking the myths prevalent in society and motivating people to adopt family planning in advance. In the future too, the company is keen on conducting such sessions in a phased manner and amplifying its endeavor to educate people on sexually transmitted infections, different contraceptive methods, and regular use of available contraceptives.
Finally, would you say Prega News’ 2022’s Women’s Day campaign with its #SheCanCarryBoth message is at odds with your latest one for Mother’s day, which acknowledges that a mother can be humanly imperfect and not excel at every role as dictated by society?
Both the campaigns are unique in their own way touching upon the different aspects of women’s life. I would say that the message conveyed through #SheCanCarryBoth and #SheIsImperfectlyPerfect complement each other. When we said that women can don multiple roles, we never implied her to be perfect. We encourage the empowerment of women where we do not believe in putting incessant pressure on them. Rather we want them to explore new possibilities in life at their own will and at their own pace, and to evolve over time by learning from their own experiences.
Mumbai: Colors Bangla brings forth the story of one such female auto driver Tumpa in its upcoming show Tumpa Autowali powered by Colgate and Dear Lotteries. The show produced by Screen Players will premier from 16 May every day at 7.30 pm on the channel.
Set against the backdrop of present-day Kolkata, the show follows the journey of Tumpa, from being a female auto driver to becoming a supporting homemaker to a successful entrepreneur.
The show gives you glimpses into the life of a female auto driver Tumpa (played by Dona Bhowmik) who drives an auto for her livelihood and supports her family, yet pursues her passion for studies. She is proud of driving her auto JAAN which she treats as a person. The show also tracks the story of Abir (played by Sayan Bose) who is an owner of a successful App-cab company. Abir is very arrogant. Despite their personalities being poles apart, Tumpa and Abir’s fates get intertwined as they get married to each other.
Speaking on the occasion Colors Bangla business head Sagnik Ghosh said, “We are delighted to announce the launch of Tumpa Autowali. This is the story of a spunky character who will try to make the most out of the extraordinary circumstances she is put through and how she will come on top. The unique character and storyline are what interested us the most to launch this show. This is not just a show about the empowerment of a woman or a typical Mass Vs. Class love story. It is all that and more. The setting is modern and relevant. The character is real and the never die attitude of the character will be something that today’s girls will relate to.”
The channel has devised a robust marketing and digital campaign for the launch of the show. To meet the objective all the nodal points including TV, Radio, Print, OOH, Digital will be used for promotion. The channel is also using a unique outreach program to reach out to viewers.
