“WHY SO SERIOUS? — The Making of Gautam Gambhir”: Cricket legend & Workforce India coach Gautam Gambhir in dialog with CNN-News18 Senior Anchor and Managing Editor (Particular Tasks) Anand Narasimhan.
“It’s at all times the captain’s staff. The coach may give inputs and play a supporting position, but it surely’s the captain’s name lastly as he’s the one working the staff,” burdened Gautam Gambhir, the pinnacle coach of the Indian males’s nationwide cricket staff that not too long ago introduced house the ICC Champions Trophy. He was talking at Goafest and responding to a question about his contributions as a coach. Confronted with some robust questions on his profession decisions, his equation with Virat Kohli, his determination to affix politics after which not proceed that innings however return to the cricket subject and his ambitions, Gambhir took them on in the identical gritty method he performed on the sector.
The previous India captain insisted that he had no variations with Kohli. To thunderous applause, Gambhir mentioned that if he weren’t a cricketer, he would have been a soldier, and he rued not becoming a member of the armed forces. Gambhir mentioned he at all times performed for the frequent man who acknowledged contributions emotionally and from the center, and never for the gallery.
Gambhir was not alone in giving a patriotic spin on the annual three-day advert and advertising and marketing fest, which on day two noticed cinema star Suneil Shetty saying that if he have been to direct a film, it might be titled ‘Bharat’. The actor, whose net collection, an motion thriller Hunter Season 2, is streaming on Amazon MX Participant, sounded totally flummoxed when he was informed by the moderator Aruna Daryanani, Director, Amazon MX Participant, that the collection was thought-about “model unsafe” by advertisers as a result of gory scenes in it. He strode down into the viewers and made a passionate and melodramatic pitch to the advertisers within the viewers to help the present, a lot to the amusement of everybody.
Earlier, the advert trade had a number of introspective periods on creativity, model constructing, tackling gender biases in addition to masterclasses on working with information and AI. Aptly themed IGNITE, this version ignited loads of debate. In a heated dialogue on artistic management and whether or not it ought to be led by the center or thoughts, Bobby Pawar, former chief artistic officer of Havas, declared that CCOs are instigators and the ‘proper mind of the organisation’. Sonal Dabral, who previously led the artistic perform at Ogilvy, felt that the chief artistic officer of in the present day was competing with the transformation officer as companies chased non-creative work. “Businesses are bending over an excessive amount of within the chase for progress,” he mentioned. Then again, Senthil Kumar, Chief Inventive Officer at VML India and Lulu Raghavan, President, APAC at Landor, strongly batted for the artistic perform, being the beating coronary heart of the company. Whereas Kumar known as the CCO the enjoying captain, Raghavan painted the CCO as a unifier of brand name imaginative and prescient and a Chief Tradition Officer.
There have been different thought-provoking periods on how generative AI reshapes the promoting enterprise and the way companies have to reclaim the brand-building area as shoppers push extra for efficiency advertising and marketing. From the conversations on the sidelines of the occasion, it was clear that the trade is at a crossroads. The stage was set on day one of many occasion, whereby the opening keynote, Rishad Tobaccowala, creator and senior advisor to the Publicis Groupe underlined how AI’s actual affect is but to unfold and shortly information and expertise can be free, making it crucial for organisations to reinvent themselves.“AI will change into like electrical energy—important however not a differentiator,” he mentioned. “The actual edge will come from HI—Human Ingenuity, Instinct, Inspiration, and Inventiveness,” he mentioned.
Printed on Could 22, 2025