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Slurrp Farm stirs up joy with ‘Real Food Really Easy’ mealtime reset
MUMBAI: Because let’s face it kids don’t care if the pancake looks like a Michelin star creation. They just want it fluffy, tasty, and on their plate fast. Slurrp Farm, India’s leading millet-based kids’ food brand, has cooked up a new campaign titled “Real Food. Really Easy.”, and it’s flipping the script on mealtime expectations. At the heart of the campaign lies a refreshing truth: children chase joy, not picture-perfect plating. The hero film captures lived-in moments wobbly pancakes, flour-dusted kitchens, families laughing together all underscoring the message that wholesome food made from clean ingredients, with minimal prep, is what actually matters.
“An empty plate is every mother’s dream,” said Slurrp Farm co-founder Meghana Narayan, adding that Slurrp Farm was built so that “yummy, junk-free food becomes an easy choice every day.” Fellow co-founder Shauravi Malik echoed that ethos, stressing the brand’s focus on real ingredients, quick prep, and meals kids reach for again and again.
Wholsum Foods chief marketing officer Ankit Kapoor (parent of Slurrp Farm and Mille), summed it up with a smile: “Food that’s eaten, not picture-perfect.”
The campaign, conceptualised in-house at Wholsum Foods by creative director Vaani Arora, directed by Angshuman Ghosh and produced by Paper Planes, will roll out across digital and social platforms. Always-on storytelling will showcase kid-approved, quick-to-fix meals that balance nutrition with flavour.
Since its launch, Slurrp Farm has become a pioneer in making millets mainstream, offering products that make parents’ lives easier while keeping children happily fed. With this reset, it’s positioning itself not just as a food brand, but as an honest voice in India’s crowded packaged food industry, one that dares to say mealtime joy beats Instagram perfection every time.
After all, in a world of spotless plating and polished reels, Slurrp Farm is proudly serving up the beauty of an empty plate and a full heart.
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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.
