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LT Foods’ Daawat launches new TVC to celebrate Biryani in Eid
Mumbai: Consumer foods company LT Foods’ flagship brand Daawat has launched a new communication to celebrate ‘Biryani’ in Eid.
The new Eid TVC aims at positioning Daawat Biryani as one of the most integral and coveted food especially during the festival times to welcome families & friends at home, said the brand in a statement.
Speaking on the occasion, CEO India and Far East business Ritesh Arora said, “Daawat takes special pride in being an integral part of the festive cheer. No celebrations can ever be complete without Daawat Basmati. The new TVC coupled with the introduction of Festive Feast pack enables delightful celebration of Eid.”
As a first of its kind initiative for the festival of Eid, LT Foods is introducing a ‘festive feast pack’ of 1.5 kg of Daawat Biryani Basmati that shall be bundled with half kg of dates. This unique initiative aims at greeting & rewarding the discerning Daawat consumers on the occasion of Eid, according to the statement.
The new TVC opens to a traditionally dressed woman walking towards the kitchen in a house where the celebration of the Eid has started. She is talking to the camera about how all their relatives, office colleagues and her full society have been waiting for the Biryani for the last one year. “Eid par biryani ka intezaar, mere aur inke rishtedaar.” Discerning for perfection, she adjusts the dastarkhan being laid by her husband to align it for the Eid feast. She reaffirms that when it is about the happiness of so many people, then the Biryani has to be extra special, made only with Daawat.
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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.
