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Gulzar lightens up Luminous’s Diwali
MUMBAI: Luminous has launched a unique social campaign that celebrates a part of Diwali that we often forget to talk about. While most Diwali campaigns talk about spending and splurging, others talk about the display of lights and fireworks across the country. This campaign, however, goes away from the conventional routes.
In a refreshing move, Luminous teamed up with renowned poet, lyricist and legend Gulzar to remind a country lost in the frenzy of bright lights and fireworks that at the end of the day the one thing that matters more than any other is the light in a person’s heart. In his own inimitable style and distinctive voice, Gulzar has brought out the message that only through the true light in our hearts, can we bring hope and happiness to the lives around us.
About the inception of this campaign, Autumn Worldwide CEO Anusha Shetty said, “It’s not too often when a client asks to create a campaign that goes beyond products.”
Luminous Power Technologies marketing VP Sachin Bhalla added, “Luminous as a brand has been very deeply embedded in consumer lives over the last 30 years. With these enchanting words we are happy to give the #roshnidilki a new meaning.”
Watch the video:
Lyrics of the poem:
Jab roshni kam ho jaaye toh
Ummeed jagaa dete hain
Jab suraj doobne lagta hai
Hum dil jalaa lete hain
Zindagi roshni, zindagi noor bhi hai
Magar dil jalaane ka dastoor bhi hai
Bahot raat tak roshni karti hai
Agar dil mein choti si ummeed rakh do
Ujaalon se ghar bhar mehekne lagega
Hatheli pe roshan koi cheez rakh do
Galey lagne waalon ka dastoor bhi hai
Zindagi roshni, zindagi noor bhi hai
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
