Tag: Vishakha Singh

  • Producer Bazaar onboards Vishakha Singh as chief growth advisor

    Producer Bazaar onboards Vishakha Singh as chief growth advisor

    Mumbai: Fipchain Technology Pvt Ltd, the company behind the revolutionary media tech platform: ProducerBazaar.com, has announced the onboarding of Vishakha Singh as its chief growth advisor (CGA).

    In this role, Vishakha Singh will bring her expertise in blockchain technology, in addition to spearheading brand promotion, leading promotional initiatives and events, and advise on overall business growth for Producer Bazaar.

    Producer Bazaar: A Web2 & Web3 marriage

    ProducerBazaar.com is a cutting-edge platform that merges the established world of Web2 with the burgeoning potential of Web3. This translates to seamlessly integrating blockchain technology into the entertainment industry, creating a secure and efficient marketplace.

    The platform acts as a bridge, connecting creators, producers, distributors, and buyers. This streamlined approach facilitates the buying and selling of various intellectual property (IP) rights associated with movies and other content.

    Vishakha Singh: A Web3 champion

    Vishakha Singh’s role is particularly exciting due to her proven expertise in Web3 technologies. She has been a successful actor and film producer.

    Most notably, Singh co-founded India’s first NFT Marketplace and served as the Vice President of WazirX NFT marketplace. Here, she played a key role in building a robust community exceeding 80,000 users and spearheaded the launch of successful NFT projects within a short span.

    “Producer Bazaar’s innovative use of Web2 and Web3 technologies perfectly aligns with Vishakha Singh’s passion for the entertainment industry and her deep understanding of the potential of blockchain. This combination positions Producer Bazaar for significant growth and continued disruption within the entertainment landscape” said Fipchain Technology Pvt Ltd founder and CEO GK Tirunavukarasu.

    Co-founder and CBO Vijay Dingari mentioned, “Her experience, creativity, and passion for the entertainment industry make for a perfect fit to align with her on our growth strategy.

    We are confident that with her at the helm of our growth efforts, Producer Bazaar will continue to revolutionize the way content is traded and distributed across the global front.”

  • Web 3.0 platform ‘coto’ ropes in Vishakha Singh as NFT strategist

    Web 3.0 platform ‘coto’ ropes in Vishakha Singh as NFT strategist

    Mumbai: ‘coto,’ a web3-based social community platform for women, has announced the appointment of Vishakha Singh as its non-fungible token (NFT) strategist.

    The company said in a statement that Singh will create and execute a robust strategy, roadmap, and execution on NFTs for ‘coto’ by spearheading awareness programmes on best practices of NFT for ‘coto’s’ creator community and will be instrumental in making ‘coto’ a front-runner in this domain.

    Through this role, Singh will play a vital part in executing the roadmap for ‘coto’s’ decentralised autonomous nature, starting with the NFT programme for creators. Besides involving B2B agencies in ‘coto’s’ early adopter programme for long-standing partnerships, she will also structure the approach based on content-led and community-led NFTs for monetisation, gating, and benefits.

    On joining ‘coto,’ Singh said, “I’m delighted to join the dynamic team of ‘coto’. My contribution would be to execute an overall strategy and craft the roadmap for the platform and its creators in the field of NFTs. Web3 is bringing an opportune moment for women for value creation and ‘coto’s’ inclusive environment enables women to create, consume, and communicate without toxicity.”

    “Through advanced technologies and insights of blockchain and NFT, I look forward to helping ‘coto’ evolve its tribe in the Web3 space,” she added.

    On Singh’s addition to the team, ‘coto’ by Eve World co-founder Rajneel Kumar said, “Web3 has changed the way social communities allow content creation, consumption, and monetisation globally. ‘coto’ is taking a deep dive with technology to cement its position on national and global marketplaces for content demand and supply to create a uniquely sustainable value proposition for its community of women creators and members. Vishakha’s experience will help ‘coto’ onboard the entire community about NFT, blockchain, and its benefits for the greater good of building a thriving, rewarding, safe space for women online.”

    In a phase-wise roll-out, ‘coto’ will soon announce its NFT plans and way forward for creators and members, stated the company.

  • Srinivasan Swamy re-elected president of IAA in India

    Srinivasan Swamy re-elected president of IAA in India

    MUMBAI: At the Annual General Body Meeting of the India Chapter of International Advertising Association (IAA) held in Mumbai, RK Swamy Hansa Group chairman Srinivasan Swamy was unanimously elected its president for the third consecutive term.

     

    He already serves on the IAA Global Board as IAA Asia Pacific development vice president.

     

    Neeraj Roy of Hungama, Monica Tata of HBO and Jaideep Gandhi of Jaya Advertising were also re-elected vice president, honorary secretary and treasurer, respectively, for 2014-15.

     

    The other members elected into the managing committee were: Abhishek Karnani of The Free Press Journal, Vishakha Singh of Aurora Comms, Manish Advani of Mahindra SSG, Janak Sarda of Deshdoot, CVL Srinivas of Group M, Avinash Pandey of ABP News, MV Shreyams Kumar of Mathrubhumi, Partho Dasgupta of BARC, Bhaskar Das of Zee Media and Rajesh Kejriwal of Kyoorius.

     

    In addition, the following would serve in the committee as invited members for the year 2014-15: Pradeep Guha, Pheroza Bilimoria, Sam Balsara, Kaushik Roy, Raj Nayak, Ramesh Narayan, M G Parameswaran, Neville Taraporewalla, Gayatri Yadav, Anita Nayyar, Pradeep Dwivedi, Anand Sankeshwar, Sunil Lulla and Punitha Arumugam. “A few more have been invited and their names will be announced after they accept our invitation”, said Swamy.

     

    In his outgoing president’s address, Swamy said that the year that went by was an active one, where 32 events were organised by IAA India. Some of these included two IAA Debates, four IAA Conversations, five IAA Mentorship Webinars, six Knowledge Seminars, three IAA Young Turks Forum events and other marquee events like the IAA Olive Crown Awards and the IAA Leadership Awards. There were a few other special ones like the IAA Retrospect & Prospects events in Gurgaon and Mumbai and the IAA Mentorship Programme. The year was off to a terrific start on 30 September 2013 with the IAA Platinum Jubilee Global Marketing Summit where the BJP Prime Ministerial candidate and Gujarat CM Narendra Modi delivering his valedictory address on his vision of Brand India.

     

    IAA India will be celebrating its Silver Jubilee year in 2014-15. “We have identified at least 20 different platforms to peg our events for the coming year. We have a very good committee and I wouldn’t be surprised if we have more than 52 events during the year”, said Swamy.

     

    IAA Asia Pacific area director Praddep Guha, “IAA India is already seen as the most active industry body in India as well as in the IAA world. With the plans that are made for 2014-15, I have no doubt that this will be the best year ever and would set a new benchmark”.

     

    Not wanting to elaborate as yet, Swamy said, “IAA will continue with some its past branded events and add a few special ones for the year that would make the IAA India Silver Jubilee a memorable one”.

     

     

  • ‘Bajate Raho’ to Premier On Sunday 8 September, 1:00 PM & 8:00 PM on MAX

    ‘Bajate Raho’ to Premier On Sunday 8 September, 1:00 PM & 8:00 PM on MAX

    MUMBAI: MAX, the Premium Hindi Movies and Special Events channel, invites you to watch the World television premier of the blockbuster ‘BAJATE RAHO’ on Sunday 08th September at 1:00 PM and 8:00 PM Only on MAX.

     

    Bajate Raho is a movie about Mummyji (Dolly Ahluwalia) and her gang of con-artists that include her son Sukhi (Tusshar Kapoor), Ballu (Ranvir Shorey), Mintoo (Vinay Pathak) and Manpreet (Vishakha Singh) who make a plan to cheat a cunning businessman named Sabharwal (Ravi Kisan). The reason for this being that Sabharwal had once conned Mummyji’s husband, which resulted in his unfortunate death.

     

    This team works together and the entire group plays their parts to get money out of Sabbarwal’s illegal businesses. The comedy caper revolves around how the gang manages to squeeze money from the rich and cunning Sabbarwal

  • Ankur Arora Murder Case releasing on 17 May

    Ankur Arora Murder Case releasing on 17 May

    MUMBAI: Ankur Arora Murder Case, an upcoming Bollywood medical thriller is all set to release on 17 May.

    The film is directed by Suhail Tatari and written by Vikram Bhatt. It takes up an urgent and disturbing issue of death during surgery and is based on a real-life incident where a boy dies on the operation table due to medical negligence.

    Rohan (Arjun Mathur) was a young medical intern who dared to dream. He was in awe of Dr. Asthana (Kay Kay Menon), the chief Surgeon of the Shekhawat General Hospital. All he wanted was to be like him. He lived in with Riya, his co-intern and the love of his life.

    However, when an eight year old boy, Ankur dies due to Dr. Asthana‘s medical negligence, Rohan realises that a good surgeon is not necessarily a good person.

    Together with Ankur‘s mother Nandita, Rohan sets out on a turbulent journey to fight for what is right.

    A fight for justice against his mentor, the hospital and the love of his life.

    The film features, Paoli Dam, Vishakha Singh, Tisca Chopra, Manish Choudhary and Sachin Khurana apart from Menon and Mathur.