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Grey creates new Reliance Unlimited Plan TVCs
MUMBAI: Reliance has rolled out new television commercials for the Reliance unlimited plans featuring Anushka Sharma and Ranvijay.
The TVCs have been conceptualised by Grey India.
Produced by Rising Sun, the films have been directed by Shoojit Sircar.
Grey India national creative director Amit Akali said, “This film should keep Ranvijay fans happy. A lot of them keep complaining about how Anushka mistreats him in our films. So here‘s a film where Ranvijay is on top of the game, at least for a large part of the film. In the end it‘s obviously Anushka and her network that win the day.”
Grey executive creative director Vishnu Srivatsav added, “This was a great product and we wanted the advertising to do justice to it. We also wanted to have fun with the ‘Tera Mera‘ format and open up Ranvijay‘s role, through the challenge. We had fun coming up with Ranvijay‘s outrageous attempts to inflate Anushka‘s bills and it was also nice to build Ranvijay‘s hopes, just to let him down.”
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Sharma and Ranvijay are at the breakfast table, breaking into their usual banter. Ranvijay makes fun of Sharma about her bill amount being so low and mocks her phone by calling it a showpiece. Sharma confidently challenges him to get a higher bill with her phone. Ranvijay thinks he‘s nabbed the opportunity of a lifetime.
Over two TV commercials we see Rannvijay applying the “most absurd” ways to consume phone calls, data and SMS on Sharma‘s phone. Good luck SMS being passed on to hundreds of people, cricket match being watched on the phone instead of big screen, call put on hold till end of day, waiting for a certain Kriplaniji to return, making an STD to listen to Delhi FM, uploading the innate, stupid photographs, delaying a callback so that it can happen on a roaming sector, anything that will bust Sharma‘s phone bill.
When the bill finally arrives, Ranvijay‘s month-long cheer turns into disappointment. He is stunned that the bill is only Rs 1500. Sharma, however, promptly corrects him. Its Rs 1499, she says, clearly demonstrating that The Unlimited Plan truly allows unlimited calls, data, SMS usage. And, reiterates that “Reliance is Simply Better”.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
