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  • GoDaddy India unveils new camapign with Mithun Chakraborty

    GoDaddy India unveils new camapign with Mithun Chakraborty

    MUMBAI: GoDaddy, the world’s largest technology provider dedicated to small businesses, today launched its latest integrated marketing campaign featuring the three-time National Film Award winner – Mithun Chakraborty. The multi-channel campaign aims to educate small businesses in India about the real-world benefits of getting a Website, and comprisestwo television advertisements along with search, display, email and social media marketing.

    “We believe that small businesses and entrepreneurs are the driving force behind India’s economy and we are here to empower them with the right tools. Anincreasing number of small businesses in the country are turning to GoDaddy to help themeasily and affordably establish their online presence,” said GoDaddy India Managing Director and Vice President Rajiv Sodhi.  “Our creative approach for this campaign drives home the point, in a fun way, that having an online presence is essential to business success.This campaign is a reflection of our commitment to accelerate the adoption of websitesin India.”

    The two TV commercials showcase two different types of small business owners –a young bakery owner and a leather shop owner, both facing different challenges. While the bakery is devoid of customers, the leather shop owner wants to run his business 24/7.The TV commercials feature Mithun explaining to the business owner how a website can help them find more customers and operate 24/7 in his quintessential style. The commercials conclude with Mithun doing a signature GoDaddy dance move – symbolizing success and celebration – along with the shop owners whose businesses are now thriving.

    On GoDaddy’s choice of Mithun Chakraborty for the campaign, Rajiv Sodhi said, “Mithunda was the perfect choice for this commercial. He compliments our creative strategy by adding to the celebratory mood of the business owners in the ad when they taste success. His appeal spans generations and his name is synonymous with dance. He is someone who has made it solely on his own and is a role model for many – irrespective of the industry they are in.”

    Speaking ofhis work on the campaign, Mithun Chakraborty said, “When GoDaddy approached me for the commercial, I was very excited. I was enthused at the opportunity to educatepeople on what the Internet can truly do. A website offers businesses amazing possibilities toget noticed and operate around the clock.I truly believe GoDaddy can help businesses in India go to the next level of growth quickly.”

    GoDaddy enables small businesses in building a professional identity online by offering an easy to use and end-to-end suite of products ranging from domain name, web hosting, email and marketing tools. The company also offers Indian businesses its world-class, local 24/7 customer care.

    GoDaddy is based in Scottsdale, Ariz. USA. Along with offices in India and Canada, GoDaddy operates data center facilities in Europe and Asia and serves 12 million paying customers globally.

    To find out more about how to get online easily and affordably, visit: in.GoDaddy.com Connect with GoDaddy on Facebook &Twitter.    

     

  • Several film personalities to feature in Samanvay Festival of Indian Languages

    Several film personalities to feature in Samanvay Festival of Indian Languages

    Five National film award winners and one Oscar awardee are among the speakers at the third edition of the India Habitat Centre (IHC) Indian Languages’ Festival ‘Samanvay’ being held from 24 to 27 October.

     

    This year the festival’s theme is ‘Jodti Zubanein, Judti Zubanein: Language Connections’. Spread over four days, the festival would also have seven Padma Shri awardees, twelve Sahitya Akademi recipients, and a Padma Bhushan awardee. Twenty languages and dialects would be featured at Samanvay 2013.

     

    ‘Samanvay’ is a platform for bringing together expressions of human thought in the varied and diverse cultural contexts that have been nurtured and have flourished in many languages spoken in our cultural milieu. These conversations amongst brilliant and well-known writers will seek to bring to our audiences the sparkle of multilingual expressions and their inspirations.

     

    Participants from the world of entertainment include Gulzar, Jerry Pinto, Ketan Mehta, Mahesh Bhatt, Piyush Mishra, and Sanjay Kak.
    Samanvay 2013 is about connections between languages and the connections languages make: Jodti Zubanein, Judti Zubanein. This is a continuum of the themes that defined the first two editions of the festival; the inaugural an exercise in understanding the notion of the Indian-ness of the various literatures of the country, the second a celebration of the multi-faceted interaction between languages and dialects. It is not only about listeners, readers and authors; it is also about the ethics and ethos of connecting through a language.

     

    There will be conversations around oral literature, media, and translations, along with poetry performances, folk art, stand-up comedy, theatre and cultural evenings. Beyond the language specific sessions, we cover some of the issues that have shaped our intellectual and social life in recent times: sessions on civil society, activism, dalit and women writing, alternate voices from literature, cinema, radio, publishing, gender violence, aspirations, dreams and voices of the marginalized, and above all the threats of a new form of patriotism that treats itself as a religion.

     

    Announcing the festival, Samanvay Festival Director Raj Liberhan said, “For us at the India Habitat Centre, Samanvay is not an event but a cause. All of us in this country find ways of translating our thoughts into words. Samanvay is a multilingual platform to debate, share and ideate on issues affecting us.”

  • E lounge unwind with Kangana Ranaut

    E lounge unwind with Kangana Ranaut

    This week on CNN-IBN’s weekend entertainment show ‘E Lounge Unwind’, actor Kangana Ranaut talks about the relevance of awards in the film industry. In a candid conversation with Rajeev Masand, Kangana says bagging a movie with a superstar can do more for an actor’s career than winning a National Film Award. On the show, she also shares her experience of playing the role of a mutant in the much-awaited Diwali release ‘Krrish 3’, and opens up to why she would have loved to play the lead in Vikramaditya Motwane’s ‘Lootera’.

     

    Don’t forget to tune into this captivating episode of ‘E Lounge Unwind’ on Sat, Oct 19th @ 10:30 PM, only on CNN-IBN.

  • Amole Gupte casts Saqib Saleem in Hawaa Hawaai

    Amole Gupte casts Saqib Saleem in Hawaa Hawaai

    Writer-director Amole Gupte had promised to make another ‘heartwarming’ film after his masterpiece Stanley Ka Dabba. The details of the movie, to be produced by Fox Star Studios, are finally out.

     

    Titled Hawaa Hawaai, the film is about ‘dreamers’, according to Gupte. The filmmaker has roped in Bombay Talkies actor Saqib Saleem in the lead. His son Partho Gupte, who won the National Film Award for his role as Stanley, will also be seen in the film.

     

    Hawaa Hawaai is the story of how a dream can be achieved. Gupte elaborates, “Dreamers possess the might to move mountains. This dream flight is the triumph of human spirit in the wake of adversity… rooted so deep in our ethos that the identification with the protagonists of the tale is instant. I have been so lucky to have netted two magical performers ably supported by an ensemble cast that is equally talented and exciting.”

     

    Hawaa Hawaai is set to release on 18 April 2014. And considering Gupte’s contribution to films such as Taare Zameen Par and Stanley Ka Dabba, this new offering from the director would be highly anticipated.