but because they are... them!
“My professional career has been very bizarre… After working for six years, I quit my job in 2001. I was singing at birthday parties and restaurants,” shares Raghu Ram, Associate VP- Shows, MTV India. To try and picture this tough looking bald guy with a guitar in front of a chattering audience, is obviously, not the easiest ask. Especially when he is better known for the carnage of expletives he leaves in his wake in the top rated show MTV Roadies.
Close at hand to share in the endearments is Raghu’s twin brother, Rajiv Laxman, Creative Director for Entertainment, Colosceum Media Pvt Ltd. Raghu and Rajiv come from a pro-education Brahmin family, a family which has been full of doctors, engineers, accountants and lawyers. Their mother has been a working woman – a journalist in the 1980s. “But then came the twist; me and Raghu both dropped out of college,” divulges Rajiv with a distinctive smile, and smiles more “In fact, I flunked twice in the same class.”
And then comes the quick professional training biodata summary from Rajiv, “This was 1994. TV18 wanted to open a training institute called Academy 18. But the problem was they were not experienced in training people. So to train themselves in training people, TV18 decided to pick the largest bunch of losers, train them and learn from that mistake and finally launch the academy one year later. So, the biggest bunch of losers were collected and me and Raghu led that pack. We got the instincts that this is the only place where we might have a chance because there was no need for any formal qualification.”
But during this time, the first real job interview that the two went for was at an equipment rental company where they were supposed to sit next to tripod stands. “That didn’t workout though... I still remember we went there with our Computers Diploma and Graphic certificates,” adds Rajiv laughingly. Finally, the duo was retained at TV18; a mind blowing experience, as they call it, because it gave them a crash course in every aspect of television. For the next six years, they worked together in the Delhi television industry. During this time, they worked with Miditech for a brief period; and also with many other production houses. And in the course of things, they also worked on a few shows for MTV – like MTV Youth, Public Demand, Record Tod etc.
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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
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“My professional career has been very bizarre… After working for six years, I quit my job in 2001. I was singing at birthday parties and restaurants,” shares Raghu Ram, Associate VP- Shows, MTV India. To try and picture this tough looking bald guy with a guitar in front of a chattering audience, is obviously, not the easiest ask. Especially when he is better known for the carnage of expletives he leaves in his wake in the top rated show MTV Roadies.
Close at hand to share in the endearments is Raghu’s twin brother, Rajiv Laxman, Creative Director for Entertainment, Colosceum Media Pvt Ltd. Raghu and Rajiv come from a pro-education Brahmin family, a family which has been full of doctors, engineers, accountants and lawyers. Their mother has been a working woman – a journalist in the 1980s. “But then came the twist; me and Raghu both dropped out of college,” divulges Rajiv with a distinctive smile, and smiles more “In fact, I flunked twice in the same class.”
And then comes the quick professional training biodata summary from Rajiv, “This was 1994. TV18 wanted to open a training institute called Academy 18. But the problem was they were not experienced in training people. So to train themselves in training people, TV18 decided to pick the largest bunch of losers, train them and learn from that mistake and finally launch the academy one year later. So, the biggest bunch of losers were collected and me and Raghu led that pack. We got the instincts that this is the only place where we might have a chance because there was no need for any formal qualification.”
But during this time, the first real job interview that the two went for was at an equipment rental company where they were supposed to sit next to tripod stands. “That didn’t workout though... I still remember we went there with our Computers Diploma and Graphic certificates,” adds Rajiv laughingly. Finally, the duo was retained at TV18; a mind blowing experience, as they call it, because it gave them a crash course in every aspect of television. For the next six years, they worked together in the Delhi television industry. During this time, they worked with Miditech for a brief period; and also with many other production houses. And in the course of things, they also worked on a few shows for MTV – like MTV Youth, Public Demand, Record Tod etc.
For more articles, Click on IIPM Article.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2009
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri and Arindam chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist).
For More IIPM Info, Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
IIPM fights meltdown, places 2300 students By Education Mail Bureau
Delhi/ NCR B- Schools get better By Swati Sharma
Event at IIPM
The Most Revolutionary Concept In Education PLANMAN CHE CENTRE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION, Supported by IIPM India’s Leading B-School
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