As a tribute and in order to commemorate the 80th Year of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s visit to Thailand, Mr. Sunil Kothari organized a dinner reception in honour of “Akhil Bharatiya Itihas Yojna Bharat” delegates and “Indian National Army(Azad Hind Fauz)” families in Thailand.
There are some gatherings you attend as a guest, and then there are moments that quietly stay with you long after the event has ended. The recent BAPS Mandir Mahotsav was one of those experiences for me. As someone who has spent decades living within the Indian community abroad while
There are places that impress you because of their architecture, history, or scale. And then there are places that quietly change the way you think. For me, Shri Pavapuri Tirth has always been the second kind. Each visit has felt less like a pilgrimage and more like a reminder of
Business taught me how systems work. Philanthropy taught me how people live inside those systems. Over the years, I’ve spent time across boardrooms, manufacturing discussions, community initiatives, cultural events, and now filmmaking. What connects all of these experiences is not business strategy or cinema alone — it is people’s lived
Somewhere in the middle of producing Avyaan, a journalist asked me a question I havebeen turning over ever since: “As a businessman, what right do you have to make a filmabout Indian spirituality and culture?” It was not asked unkindly. It was a fair question, and I think it deserves
A few months into producing Avyaan, one of our younger crew members asked me, half-joking, how a textiles-and-jewelry businessman ends up making creative calls on a film set. I laughed because I had asked myself some version of that question many times.But the longer I sat with it, the more
On the morning we began shooting Avyaan, the first thing that happened was not a camerarehearsal or a lighting check. It was a puja. Pandit Sourav Banerjee led us through therituals on the banks of the Ganga, and only after that ceremony was complete did theproduction formally begin. I have
