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Prime Video India content head Vijay Subramaniam steps down
Mumbai: Amazon Prime Video India’s director and head of content Vijay Subramaniam has stepped down, the company confirmed in a statement. Country manager Gaurav Gandhi will take over his responsibilities going forward.
Subramaniam has been associated with the company since 2017.
“Vijay has played a key role in Prime Video’s growth in India in this period. We are grateful to him for his valuable contributions over the last four years,” said Prime Video India in a statement. “In his content leadership role, Vijay helped forge several key creator partnerships as well as laid great focus on expanding our content selection across languages. We wish Vijay the very best for his upcoming endeavours.”
“Director and country manager Gaurav Gandhi will continue to lead Prime Video in India and work across all teams to accelerate Prime Video’s mission to be the most-loved entertainment brand in the country,” it further said.
Subramaniam was previously with The Walt Disney Company, India before he quit as vice president – content and communication. He joined Disney in February 2007 and was responsible for the growth of its youth channel – Bindass. During his career, he has had stints at MTV Networks India, Entertainment Network India, Star TV Network, and Magna Publishing.
He has almost three decades of experience in the media industry across TV, radio, publishing and digital media. His expertise includes content development and creation, programming and branded content, marketing strategy and implementation, revenue optimisation and sustainable growth and team building.
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Tips Music CEO Hari Nair to step down
Girish Taurani and Sushant Dalmia to jointly steer the company as the hunt for a new chief begins
MUMBAI: A leadership shuffle is under way at Tips Music. Hari Nair, the company’s chief executive, will step down on April 30 as the music label begins the search for a successor.
The company said Girish Taurani, executive director, and Sushant Dalmia, chief financial officer, will jointly oversee operations during the transition while the board identifies a permanent replacement.
Nair joined Tips Music in 2023 and set about reshaping the veteran music label into a more digital, data-led enterprise. During his tenure, the company secured licensing and partnership deals with global platforms including Sony Music Publishing and TikTok, while renewing agreements with Warner Music Group.
Drawing on earlier experience in technology and entertainment, including a stint at ByteDance, Nair pushed the organisation towards a performance-driven culture. He built a brand partnerships division and introduced proprietary software systems aimed at strengthening digital distribution and data capabilities.
Kumar Taurani, chairman and managing director, credited Nair with embedding a data-led culture within the company and driving revenue growth in line with shareholder commitments.
In his resignation note, Nair said that after helping transition the label into a modern, digitally focused and process-driven organisation, the time had come to pursue his next leadership challenge.
The leadership change comes as the broader Tips Films group shows signs of financial stabilisation. In the third quarter of FY26 the company reported a net loss of Rs 2.86 crore, narrowing sharply from Rs 14.2 crore in the previous quarter. For the nine months ended December, losses stood at Rs 12.37 crore.
Yet revenue told a more volatile story. Income from operations slid to Rs 4 crore in Q3 FY26 from Rs 56 crore in the preceding quarter, taking total operating income to Rs 4.56 crore.
For a company built on a catalogue of more than 34,000 tracks and decades of Bollywood hits, the next chief will inherit both a digital engine and a volatile music market. The playlist may be familiar, but the next act at Tips Music is only just beginning.
