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Zee Cinema ‘Waisa Bhi Hota Hai’ contest winners announced
MUMBAI: And the winners are… Zee Cinema in association with indiantelevision.com had organised a contest in April 2004, around movie- Waisa Bhi Hota Hai- Part II.
Both Enterprise Nexus media supervisor Imran Abdul Karim and RK Swamy BBDO Advertising manager media services D Raghunathan have bagged the mega-prize of the contest – a hi-fi music system each – from Zee Cinema.
Karim has been working on accounts such as Killer Jeans, NECC, Neelkamal Furniture, and Hotel Leela for Enterprise Nexus, while Raghunathan is part of PRP Nair’s team and has been working with RK Swamy BBDO since the last 20 years and is handling accounts such as Hawkins, Mercedes, LIC, Visa International and Raymonds.
Targeted at the Media, Advertising, Marketing and Television professionals, the contest saw hundreds of entries pouring in from trade subscribers all across.
Currently, prime on Zee Cinema’s agenda is to strengthen its brand positioning. The contest is part of a series of marketing initiatives, conducted by Zee Cinema, to ensure brand recall for its movies among the trade.
Touted as India’s only Hindi movie channel, Zee Cinema has started premiering new movies since April 2004. The first movie to premiere was 2003’s surprise hit Waisa Bhi Hota Hai – Part II starring Arshad Warsi, Sandhya Mridul, Pratima Kazmi and Prashant Naryanan on 10 April at 8 pm.
As of the contest, beside the two winners, 31 other have been shortlisted as the consolation prize winners, who will be gifted music CD’s of the movie.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
