Exclusive excerpts on advertising with Filmmaker Amit Sharma & Author Mitrajit Bhattacharya
Channel: exchange4media Group
Date: 2020-09-17

In the 18th episode of the popular weekly celebrity chat show, Teacher's Glasses presents Bollywood Talkies with Oulook, which was premiered on friday, Sepetmeber 11 saw Badhaai Ho director and ad world's favourite filmmaker, Amit Sharma chatting with host Mitrajit Bhattacharya. In the course of the 30-min long interview, Amit Sharma spoke about how he joined the ad industry as a model for filmmaker Pradeep Sarkar and then continued to assist him for six years before venturing out on his own with Chrome Pictures at the age of 24. The rest is, as they say, is history. He has gone on to direct more than 2000 ad films and his upcoming magnum opus featuring Ajay Devgn, Maidaan is getting ready for release during the Independence Day 2021 week. 

He also answered patiently when asked about the back stories of creating three of the biggest campaigns of his career- Google Reunion, Lifebuoy- Help a Child Reach 5 and The Silent National Anthem.

Exchange4media gets access to the unedited version of the conversation.