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High Flyers 50 Global Indians – Awards and Book Launch – Pooja Bedi – Aman Verma – Dr Aneel Kashi Murarka – Aanjjan Srivastav Grace the Occasion
The second edition of High Flyers 50, a prestigious award ceremony and book release function, was recently concluded at the The Westin Mumbai, Powai Lake (Marriott Group). Recognising people from various walks of life, for their outstanding contribution in the fields of Art, Culture, Entertainment, Business, Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy, Healthcare and Academics, High Flyers 50 is helmed by well-known journalist and trade analyst, Ravi Kumar. The glitterati of tinsel-town, including actors Pooja Bedi, Aman Verma and Aanjjan Srivastav, philanthropist Dr.Aneel Kashi Murarka, Dr.Chirantan Ghosh, and noted filmmaker Onir among many others, descended upon the red carpet, making the soiree a more delightful one. While the ever-so-gorgeous Pooja Bedi felicitated the awardees, actor Aman Verma was the master of ceremonies for the evening.
“High Flyers 50 is a unique platform wherein we discover people who deserve to be recognised and honoured and narrate their untold success stories. Each year, we finalise fifty people from different walks of life and felicitate them in distinguished ways. After a successful launch of the first edition of High Flyers 50 last year, this year we have taken the platform to a global level with High Flyers 50 Global Indians that recognises deserving people from India, UK, USA, UAE, Netherlands et al,” averred host Ravi Kumar.
Interestingly, besides the award felicitations, the evening also witnessed the release of the niche High Flyers 50 coffee-table book that recounts the riveting success stories of the all the heroes. The High Flyers 50 coffee-table book will be available on all the major online and e-Book platforms.
The awardees of High Flyers 50 Global Indians, include, Lord Karan Bilimoria , Dr.Aneel Kashi Murarka, Onir, Aanjjan Srivastav, Kaushik Basu, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, Kamel Hothi OBE, Dr.Chirantan Ghosh, Abhnash Kaur Bains, Vijay Kalantri, Prabhu Guptara, Dr.Atanu Biswas, Vivek Gupta, Dr.Dinesh Dhamija, Dr.Santanu Sanyal, Ronald Silvan D’Souza, Malav Sanghavi, Bala V Sathyanarayanan, Arsh Pal, Sumit Goel, Samir Sathe, Tanveer Ghazi, K. S. Ratra, Mohan Prathiban, Dr.Mukesh Batra, Hitesh Agarwal, Dr.Anand Kumar, Sneh Mehta, Girish Pant, Dr.Ravindra Bhagwanrao Deshmukh, Rajat Singhania, Anish Maheshwari, Vasanthan Ramakrishnan, Dr.Ashok Yende, Giridhar Jha, Dr.Bhawani Rathore, Manjit Singh, Nijjar, Benzy, Abhijit Sarkar, Prachi Tantia, Pratik Gauri, Adv. Chandni Kapadia, Abhishek M Datta, Bhavesh Kumar, Indrani Dwarampudi, Srividhya Sukumar, Sachin Narwade among others.
“It’s always wonderful to recognise the achievements of those who have put time, money, and energy into doing something out of the ordinary. Awards such as High Flyers 50 motivate awardees to achieve even greater heights and inspire others to follow in their footsteps,” imparted Pooja Bedi.
Additionally, Jeet Trivedi, a 17-year-old wonder from Bhavnagar, Gujarat, known the world-over for his blindfold abilities such as painting, cycling, reading, and playing Chess, took to the stage and enthralled the audience with his unusual craft.
All in all, an eventful evening indeed!
High Flyers 50 Global Indians – Awards and Book Launch – Pooja Bedi – Aman Verma – Dr Aneel Kashi Murarka – Aanjjan Srivastav Grace the Occasion
Gautam Chaturvedi’s first ever Short Film as an Actor – Director and Writer Wins the Prestigious Best Shorts Competition in USA
Mumbai, June 20, 2020: The Kahaani Ghar Ghar ki Fame, Gautam Chaturvedi, the man who dons many hats from an Entrepreneur to an Actor has bagged a prestigious Award of Merit for his short film Work From Home. Starring Mouli Ganguly, Ridhiema Tiwari, Neelu Kohli and Gautam Chaturvedi himself, Work From Home was written and produced during the lockdown in the country owing to the Global Pandemic.
A one of its kind production, showcasing how this sudden Lockdown has thrown many a lives off balance financially, emotionally and psychologically was written, shot and packaged keeping the staying at home protocol in check at all times. The movie deals with the intricacies of the life of a couple who have 2 kids and are married for over a decade, but soon enough, the cracks in their relationship show up and then life takes a sudden turn.
Work From Home is one of the only two films from the country to win this celebrated awards that’s been honoring filmmakers and artists for their exceptional work for a decade now. The film is the only Indian short film to presented with the Award of Merit title. Based out of California, Best Shorts will not be holding a physical ceremony and will courier trophies to the winner keeping the sensitivity of the pandemic in mind.
Speaking on this occasion, Gautam Chaturvedi said, “We at Pinetree Pictures are absolutely delighted to have received this prestigious award. Work From Home is a special film created at a rather difficult time and seeing that the film is getting the honor it deserves for all the hard work and long hours we put into it is amazing. We are thankful to the jury at Best Shorts for recognizing our effort and giving us the motivation, we need with this award!”
He further added that they are working with a few OTT platforms at the moment to make this short film exclusively available for the audience at large.
About Pinetree Pictures: Pine Tree is a complete Media solutions group, handling Event Management and Film Production. We like to believe that each piece of work that we do stands for something that is organic and natural – and is more than the usual fare that’s automated and mass-produced all around us. From Manufacturing Films to Training videos, from jingles to product films, from info graphic films to CSR films, music videos, 3D Films, TVC’s etc. – the power of ‘Film’ today covers a large spectrum of possibility & delivering the correct message to the correct audience. They have been instrumental in creating films with different objectives, audience, treatment & mediums for our clients across sectors.