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  • A local history buff, he has also co-authored a book and several articles on Mumbai's history and heritage

    Kaevan Umrigar joins Rediffusion as ECD

    By Our Staff

     

    Kaevan Umrigar
    Kaevan Umrigar

    Rediffusion has announced that Kaevan Umrigar has joined its Mumbai office as Executive Creative Director. In a career spanning more than two decades, Umrigar has been both a writer and a filmmaker, and has worked with advertising agencies like Contract, Everest and Dentsu Aegis on brands such as Cadbury, Hidesign, IFB, BPL, Business Standard, Indian Navy and Fair & Lovely.

     

    Kaevan’s documentaries on the Parsi community have been showcased at various international film festivals and won a National Award. A local history buff, he has also co-authored a book and several articles on Mumbai’s history and heritage.

     

    Said Kalyani Srivastava, Executive Vice-President and Head of Rediffusion, Mumbai: “Kaevan is a multi-faceted personality with interests that go beyond just advertising. He is fun to work with. Has a wry sense of humour. And that reflects in his work which most times has a sense of effervescence, joy and well-being that is not easy to describe,”

     

  • The 45-year-old National Award-winner is director and associate profession at the School of Literature at the Mahatma Gandhi University, based in Kottayam in Kerala

    Malayalam academic PS Radhakrishnan wins Nat Award for film criticism

    By Ananya Saha

     

    Forty-five-year-old Dr PS Radhakrishnan was evaluating a PhD when his students told him he had won the National Award as Best Film Critic. The Director and Associate Professor for Literature and Arts, School of Literature at Mahatma Gandhi University has been writing about films and on films since 1995. His film writings have won Kerala State Awards in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

     

    Ecstatic, Dr Radhakrishnan told MxMIndia, “I have always written in Malayalam. So when my students told me I have won the National Award, I asked them to check their facts. I never thought that someone who has been writing in Malayalam would win the coveted National Award. I feel privileged to be a part of it.” Though he felt overwhelmed for the first few minutes, the feeling sunk in with the deluge of congratulatory messages.

     

    Dr Radhakrishnan’s essays have centered around ‘Nationalism and Cinema’. His writings appear in the Malayalam dailies and weeklies. He has written on stars such as Rajnikath, Dev Anand among many others. An avid fan of films, he vouches for movies such as ‘Bicycle Thief’ and ‘Aparajito’, which is a sequel to ‘Pather Panchali’. “When you start watching a lot of movies, you get to know what is missing or what could have been added to make a film more perfect,” he said.

     

    The academician did his postgraduation in Malayalam Language and Literature and PhD from Mahatma Gandhi University in Indian aesthetics and Malayalam Criticism. Dr Radhakrishnan has written five books till now, with only one being centred around movies: History and Film, which also won the State Award.