Sameer loves waking up every day to the possibility of new, interesting and varied experiences. A Chartered Accountant and MBA by education, Sameer has worked for nearly two decades in media and entertainment across television, feature film and digital platforms. He has previously served in managerial and leadership positions at YouTube, STAR India, Discovery Communications, Vidhu Vinod Chopra Films and UTV Motion Pictures. Across these organisations, Sameer has primarily focussed on conceptualisation, development and programming of long form content for digital, television and feature film platforms, working in close collaboration with creative talent, producers and inter-disciplinary specialists on each project. Sameer firmly believes in the power of content to effect real and lasting change in society and this is what motivates him every day.
“Créer, c’est vivre deux fois”
Bumpy believes in the creative process and tries to seek that out in all his first loves- whether that be cooking, playing the cello or the bass, his sneaker collection or travelling.
But in between all of this, he’s managed to find a 20+ yr old love affair with story-telling through his multi-layered body of enviable work across all mediums which includes theatrically released films, television, TVC’s and now digital.
As someone who constantly loves innovating and being ahead of the curve, it has led him to many fruitful partnerships with popular brands like YashRaj Films, 120 Media Collective, and MTV besides being a successful and sometimes disgruntled freelancer.
His current hero is Chrysippus, a Greek philosopher who died laughing at his own joke.
Subhojit hankers solace in Storytelling, Advertising, Sports, History, Music and many more! A hilt in the journey so far will tell you that technology and content has paved the career tapestry for him!
A spontaneous traveller, having to explore the length and breadth of the country, discovered his passion for business development.
With over a decade of media experience Subhojit thrives on his wonderful relationships across industries. Having worked in Radio, TV and Digital media, he loves to blend riveting stories with sharp business objectives.
One surely can count on his calm approach, innocuous wit and contagious smile to begin a conversation, which starts it all!
Akhil has an experience of over 20 years with a strong background in the film, television and digital industry with an in-depth knowledge of commercial and production work. He has also worked in various creative capacities in both fiction and non-fiction space.
He has been associated with path-breaking shows like The Great Indian Laughter Challenge Season 3 & 4, Radio City’s Babbar Sher, Kota Factory etc.
While working on The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, he auditioned and selected fresh talent such as Kapil Sharma, Sudesh Lahiri, Chandan Prabhakar, Rajiv Thakur, Sugandha Mishra etc. and later jammed with them and created some of the most iconic stand-up comedy acts seen on the Indian Television. His show Kota Factory Season 1 was declared the topmost web-series of 2019 by iMDB.
On the personal front, he was among the Top 64 people from across India to get selected as a contestant on the prestigious television quiz show BBC Mastermind India.
He is very passionate about sports, cinema and reading books, comics and graphic novels and has a keen interest in quizzing, travelling, nature and wildlife, discussing politics, history and trivia and spending time wandering in the mountains.
Being a perpetual misfit, Saswat was tagged under 'creative' category by techies, while the creatives felt he wasn’t mad enough. In reality, he got his answers in new age business strategies and finally found his calling at the intersection of all these specialisations.
Saswat is a multidisciplinary designer from Glasgow School of Art. After being trained at BBC Scotland & Channel4 London, he has subsequent work experiences within the media & design industry producing videos, animation, multiplatform content, online games, branding, websites & immersive design. In 2013, British Council awarded him 'Creative entrepreneur fellowship' to conceptualise and produce a UK-India global project on 'Games for social change'. Few recent successful projects include “live interactive quiz” on MakeMyTrip app (won gold in ScreenXX awards 2019 for best travel show on web), “Social VR for business” (Accenture), “Retail VR for enterprise” (Walmart), VR games, “interactive video viewing app” (Aga Khan Foundation Europe) and “Mega icons” National Geographic series (won gold in Asian TV Awards 2019). Few other recognisable brands that Saswat has worked with are Walt Disney, Nickelodeon (Viacom18), Endemol, Pocket Aces pictures & Cambridge University Press.
Saswat is truly excited to experience the dynamic and fast evolving landscape of interactive entertainment business in partially-globalised & partially-hyperlocal societies where telling meaningful & actionable stories is more important than ever before. He identifies with multiple communities and enjoys being an ‘outsider’. Being 194 cm (6’4”) tall, he is, yet again, a misfit in most group photos. He is hopeful that future work from home policies will enable him to bring home a pet dog one day.
From speaking various dialects across Maharashtra to tasting all types of authentic food across Maharashtra, Sandesh is a typical “Marathi Manus”. They say ‘Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.’ Going literally parallel with this saying and being honest to his witty personality, Sandesh has the most successful how to his credit in Marathi Entertainment – ‘Chala Hava Yeu Dya’. It’s a comedy nonfiction show running successfully since last 5 years. Starting with conceptualizing the show till prompting lines to the artists, he has played all types of roles while making this show a great success.
Apart from this, he has also created shows in other genres like singing, dance, quiz, and variety entertainment like BIGG BOSS. Being an ardent fan of Marathi Cinema, he has also contributed in its paradigm shift from it being a loss making affair to touching the 100 CR club. He has worked on various Marathi films like Kaksparsha, Duniyadari, Lay Bhaari, Sairat etc. Starting with content marketing for films, Sandesh has got into creative aspect of the films in his overall experience over 12 years.
Just like a hardcore Maharashtrian, reading Marathi books and watching Marathi plays is what makes Sandesh happy apart from his work. Having said that, Films still remain as his ultimate source of contentment which makes him to do the persistent search of stories that can be adapted into films. Overall, one can describe Sandesh as a person who has been a constant learner of the pulse of Marathi audience.
Sanjay Nandan dreams to sleep during the day time and run in the night. And loves oral history( that’s the way he makes his gup-shup sound academic & intense). Sanjay devotes much of his free time in speculating on moves of politicians across nation.
Being an avid traveler Sanjay can always find reasons to travel. He is a keen listener and has spent much of his journalistic time in North-Eastern India, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh & Delhi in search of stories ranging from politics, crime, and social issues. His much-acclaimed series ‘Ramrajya’ took him to more than 8 countries. For Ramrajya Sanjay was awarded Ramnath Goenka Award For excellence in Journalism for The Year 2015 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
With over 20 years of industry experience he is one of those dynamic media professionals who combines excellent editorial and production abilities. Sanjay conceptualized and produced two seasons of path-breaking Series on post Independent India, “Pradhanmantri” hosted by Shekhar Kapoor. This series created a genre in Indian News Television and set standards that have become a norm for good storytelling. This Series was followed by highly acclaimed and awarded “Bharatvarsh”- Story of India was a story of India told through 10 great lives of India. Sanjay Nandan in the series, “Bharatvarsh” captured the essence of “Indianess” through the story of ten great lives.
From India’s first private satellite channel, to India’s first 24-hour news channel, to India’s first fully-digital professionally managed news channel, he has been part of all significant technological, editorial and ideological paradigm shifts to have swept Indian media during the past two decades.
Ayan is an expert writer and a successful showrunner.
For the past 14 years he has been developing, writing and selecting stories for Percept Picture Company, Star Plus, Zee TV and as a freelancer, writing for Zee5, Dish TV and Prime Flix.
He has developed, wrote and creatively managed 28 TV shows and 3 feature films. Out of which 19 of his TV shows have been slot leaders. 2 out of his 3 feature films has been super hits.
He has been successfully behind developing and launching more than one slot leaders every year. And most of the characters he made has featured, higher up the order in ‘Character India Loves’ consistently. His writing has not only ensured a strong leadership position of his employers but those have dominated discussions all around the country.
His writing has also won several awards and validations, a selection in the Cinefondation section of Festival de Cannes being one of them. Though he considers experience in knowing different cultures, different people, from different places and how they think. He wants to live in a world filled with people who love stories, where books come bundled with white chocolate and muscatel and there is a force field around his fountain pen that repels distracting notifications and sticky blocks.
The greatest thing that he has ever done is making everyone believe that he loves writing. While the truth is that he is fascinated by the power of connecting with people over the very things that make us human, vulnerable and imperfect.
Amit Pareek, a Post Graduate in Business Management with demonstrated leadership strength and proven ability to manage multiple responsibility in fast paced working environment with Critical media deadlines. He assumes the role of Finance Manager in India’s popular Electronic Media Network ABP Networks/ Studio. His background in Business and Finance Management gives him sophisticated grasp on critical aspects of Finance particularly in Sales Accounting, Commercial Negotiations and Credit Control but his enthusiasm doubles with the process automation, being the most expected working demand, these days.
Mr Pareek is well organized professional with attention to detail. He works well independently as well in collaboration with the team. He has a proven ability to think “out of the box” and contributes towards the policy formation in the organization as well from the finance aspect. As a true Professional, he has a real “Can Do” attitude towards the work, good knowledge of basic accounting principles and pragmatic approach towards finding solution.
He has a rich and vast experience of 14 years in the profession. He has been induced to the current organization in 2012, since then, he has been handling various roles in finance including Revenue Assurance, credit control, collections & process automation. Prior to this, he has served for many other esteemed organisations like KPMG, DEUTSCHE Bank, Genpact, & Quark.
Personally, Mr Pareek believes in his dreams and has the zeal to explore various culture in the world. He is passionate for driving, watching movies and being around his social group.
