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Funskool plays it smart this festive season
MUMBAI: Funskool India is turning up the cheer this season with ten brand-new toys and games designed to delight every age, from toddlers stacking cars to families chasing wins on the board.
The home-grown toymaker’s latest lineup brings together some of its most loved in-house brands: Giggles, Handycrafts, and Fundough, alongside licensed international favourites from Molto, Spain. Each promises a dash of creativity, colour and festive fun.
For the littlest hands, Giggles rolls out my first vehicle gift set, a 4-in-1 pack featuring stack-a-car, dump truck, aeroplane and caterpals, and my first playtime gift set, complete with a slide tower, shape-sorting gear box and baby action ball.
Older kids can try their hand at the refreshed sequence classic, the timeless game of luck and logic, perfect for family nights that stretch into laughter-filled marathons.
The crafty bunch haven’t been forgotten either. The Handycrafts diya décor kit and Fundough’s super activity kit promise to keep little fingers busy while fuelling imagination and fine motor skills.
Adding an international flair, Molto’s colourful trucks: fire, dumper, garbage and police, come with nifty tiltable and flip-up features, tailor-made for adventure seekers aged 18 months and up.
“Toys and games bring joy and boost imagination,” said Funskool India CEO K.A. Shabir. “This festive season, we hope to help build a generation of creative young minds who will shape India’s future.”
With prices ranging from Rs 165 to Rs 1,549, the new toys are already lighting up store shelves, just in time to make every child’s festive wish come true.
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Collective Artists Network reshuffles talent leadership
Fiona D’Souza, Jinal Jhaveri and Arjun Banerjee take expanded roles in core division.
MUMBAI: Collective Artists Network just handed the talent baton to its homegrown stars because when your agents have been building careers this long, it’s time to let them run the show. Collective Artists Network has announced the next phase of leadership for its talent management business, elevating senior agents Fiona D’Souza, Jinal Jhaveri and Arjun Banerjee to expanded roles within the division. The move strengthens the company’s foundational talent arm while it continues to grow into content creation and production-led ventures.
Each of the three has played a significant part in shaping artist careers across films, digital platforms and brand partnerships. Together they now represent the next generation of leadership for Collective’s talent operations, with a continued focus on long-term career building, strong partnerships and adapting representation to a fast-changing media landscape.
Collective Artists Network founder and Group CEO Vijay Subramaniam remains actively involved in guiding artist strategy and key relationships. He said, “Talent management has been the foundation on which Collective was built, and that philosophy continues to guide how we grow the company. As we enter this next phase, it’s important that the people leading this business have both deep context and long-term convictions.”
Collective Artists Network partner and head of talent Janahavi Rawal added, “Collective’s talent business has always been built on trust, long-term thinking, and a deep understanding of where artists want to go next. Fiona, Jinal, and Arjun have each played an important role in shaping the careers of the artists we represent, and this phase is about empowering our senior agents further while building the right support systems around them.”
The leadership evolution reflects Collective’s belief in promoting from within and creating clear ownership across verticals. In a talent world where yesterday’s agent is tomorrow’s partner, Collective isn’t just reshuffling chairs, it’s handing the spotlight to the people who’ve been quietly directing the show all along.
