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Blue Vector launches homegrown film agency Dot Films
Mumbai: Blue Vector on Tuesday announced the launch of a homegrown film agency Dot Films. The philosophy driving this venture is to create form-first audio-visual spectacles that look and sound artful and evoke emotions, it said in a statement.
The Dot Films will comprise the team that primarily looks after films at Blue Vector. The team will have Yashi Paswan, Shrey Deepranjan, and Rhiju Talukdar at the helm of its leadership.
Blue Vector also revealed that there are more company launches in the pipeline, with an end-vision to cover the whole gamut of marketing and creativity, including the involvement of tech.
Dot Films already has a significant portfolio with work for clients like Delhivery, Nykaa, Mont Blanc, IAmAnimal, and ITC Hotels. The team has plans to continue to grow these verticals and also its own partnerships and networks with agencies and talent in India and abroad.
The agency will allow the ‘art’ of filmmaking to take precedence in a massive, ever-growing content landscape that’s littered with tones, treatments, concepts, and quality without any real benchmark, according to the statement.
“I think for the Dot Films team it’s been a very natural and also personal progression, almost cathartic, to finally put Dot into action. Here’s to doing some literally intent-led work going forward,” commented Dot’s co-founder and creative producer Yashi Paswan.
For the last five years, Blue Vector has operated mostly as a monolithic creative house, with a suite of creative services under the same roof – branding, films, social media marketing, and the likes. With the acquisition of Content Ninja in 2019, with its B2B inbound marketing toolbox, the one-stop-shop started the internal process of ‘diversification into specialisation.’
Starting this year, Blue Vector is putting into action its strategy to ride out the agency wave with separate businesses for its separate services, each with its own specialisation and business strategy. “Dot Films will be the first homegrown company to leave the nest while still tethered to it. Its specialisation is further deepened with specific categories for the films they will be conceptualising and producing for, i.e, for brand, travel, and music narratives,” said the agency.
Casting more light on this new venture, Blue Vector founder Piyush Kedia said that trying to be good at everything while also doing everything isn’t very prudent from a growth point of view, especially in the agency business. “The idea was to scale through a semi-organic method of networking, offshoring, acquisitions and business spin-offs. The lockdowns gave us a lot of time to plan and strategise, and that’s why I think we were fortunate to be able to start executing all this. We’re about to do some very interesting things and I’m very keenly looking forward to this future,” he added.
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Lego brings Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappé, Vinicius together
Campaign clocks 314 million views ahead of FIFA World Cup 2026 buzz.
MUMBAI: Four legends, one frame and not a single tackle in sight. Lego has pulled off a crossover few thought possible, uniting Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior in a single campaign ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026 only this time, they’re building dreams brick by brick.
Titled “Everyone wants a piece”, the campaign features the quartet assembling a Lego version of the World Cup trophy, before placing miniature versions of themselves atop it, a playful nod to football’s ultimate prize. Shared widely across social media, the ad carries a pointed disclaimer: it is not AI-generated, a subtle but telling signal in an era where even reality is often questioned.
The numbers tell their own story. The campaign has already crossed 314 million views on Instagram across the players’ accounts, with fans hailing it as a rare, almost nostalgic moment particularly for the reunion of Messi and Ronaldo, whose last shared campaign ahead of the 2022 World Cup became one of the platform’s most-liked posts.
Beyond the film, Lego is extending the play with exclusive, player-themed sets tied to each of the four stars, part of a broader football-led programme designed to ride the global momentum building towards 2026. The idea, as echoed by the players themselves, leans into the parallels between football and play experimentation, creativity, failure, and triumph.
Messi described the sets as a way to bring on-pitch moments into an imaginative, hands-on world, while Ronaldo called the transformation into a Lego figure a rare honour, blending sport with storytelling. Vinícius, meanwhile, struck a more personal note, recalling childhood moments of building with Lego and framing creativity as a universal language that transcends borders.
The timing is no accident. With the 2026 World Cup set to run from June 11 to July 19 across the United States, Canada and Mexico, and featuring an expanded 48-team format, global anticipation is already building. Argentina, led by Messi, will enter as defending champions, adding another layer of intrigue.
For Lego, the campaign does more than celebrate football, it taps into its mythology. Because when icons become figurines and rivalries turn into play, the beautiful game finds a new kind of pitch. one built, quite literally, by hand.
