Posts Tagged ‘reviews’

Bloggerati of the Fortnight: Rahul Balyan

Thursday, November 15th, 2012

RahulCurrent Position and Organization:
Head – Digital Initiatives at Radio Mirchi
Areas of Expertise:
International Business development; FMCG. Media and Entertainment Sales; Digital Marketing
Educational Background:
Masters in Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (IIM); Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from Punjab University, Chandigarh
                                  Blog Name:  Reflections

Rahul Balyan admits to the fact that this blog that he describes as ‘a marketer’s world view’, was an afterthought. However, what remains true to the core are the matters that are being talked about in the posts; which incidentally are marketing, culture or social issues centric, something Rahul strongly feels about.

Most topics dealt with are clearly segmented into Opinion, Reviews, Travelogue, Fiction and Image Gallery. While the Opinion segment clearly voices his concern and take on various socio-cultural issues, the Reviews section is a critique’s point of view on popular movies and sitcoms. The Travelogue documents his own sojourns across various patches of earth, and sky in certain cases. Most posts are in first person narrative and a gripping tale all the way till the end and begs a discerning judgment from the reader.

Aesthetically, the blog is quite neat and crisp with catchy headers that draw a reader to delve deeper into the posts. The blog theme is simple and soothing to eye as opposed to most popular blogs that are high on colour, design and jazz. The images used are of high-quality, with detailed captions that one could choose to see as a slideshow in the Image Gallery.

If one spends a decent amount of time in going through the blog posts, it’s easy to tell definitively that the topics are well researched and supplemented with hard facts. The same reason that allows Rahul to take a stand for/against an issue. Having said that, Rahul himself is very open to the idea of clearing the cloud of doubt that might arise in a reader’s mind in case his opinion is not particularly aligned to the reader’s. What’s more? He humbly seeks to address it separately, too. In fact his ability to put forward his views with brevity and backing it up with palpable logic is one of the reasons why we find him befitting of our title, Bloggerati of the Fortnight.

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Bloggerati of the Fortnight: Murtaza Ali

Saturday, September 1st, 2012

MurtazaCurrent Position and Organisation:
Content Writer and Sports Editor at F1India.Org; Editor at DSM Chronicle (Business Magazine of Delhi School of Management)
Areas of Expertise:
Creative Writing, Digital Marketing, Film Criticism, Sports Writing
Educational Background:
MBA in Marketing and Supply Chain Management from Delhi School of Management, Delhi Technical University (Formerly DCE); Bachelor in Technology in Electronics and Communication from Jamia Millia Islamia
                                       Blog Name: A potpourri of Vestiges

Cinema and films today are at the mercy of film makers who are caught up in the frenzy of commercialization and mass entertainment. This blog is an attempt on Murtaza’s part to enlighten the masses about the glorious cinematic jewels of the by-gone era that are fast fading into obscurity. In its essence, A potpourri of Vestiges is a celebration of cinema’s artistic form highlighting those who have been instrumental in contributing to the legacy and are regarded in the world of celluloid as the finest.

As is evident from the posts, titles are fairly indicative of the story covered. While some chronicle the style and modus operandi of film makers over the ages along with their best films, others are critical reviews of films that have been featured on the ‘internet movie database (IMDB)’. Reviews of films are mostly assisted with a comparative fact chart that lists ratings by Murtaza himself along with the other essential pointers such as the Imdb ratings, genre, cast, language, country, runtime and colour.

If you are as bent as us to lay a lot of emphasis on the richness of the language and quality of content, then Murtaza has done a fabulous job in taking us readers through a spell binding journey of cinematic excellence. His ability to deliver a superior biography-like reading experience is reflective of his keen eye for detail.

As an opening quote to the blog by none other than Jean-Luc Godarrd himself, floating on the top as a masthead it reads, “Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.”; this blog is nothing less than justifying every essence of the quote. Needless to say, why it is justified to merit Murtaza Ali as our Bloggerati of the fortnight.

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