*Shahnaab Alam* S/o Smt Tara and AMM Saiful Alam
Co-Founder of alkhemiARTS <http://www.alkhemiarts.com/>. (Born : 28th November'1971 in Guwahati, Assam) A media professional who has travelled through all the streams of media. He started out in the field of journalism and then moved on to other streams of media, such as television, events and films. He has been associated with various publications as a writer, journalist, correspondent and editor. He has served as the Assistant Editor for "The Herald Times" and as the Associate Editor of "Asian Photography". He has been associated with various television productions in the capacity of a director or an executive producer. As an Executive Producer for In Network, he was the member of the core team, which launched two city-based channels InMumbai and InDelhi. He has also directed several ad-films and corporate films for clients like Amul, Crush, Indane, Energizer, Sansui and Reliance. He has also produced an in-depth series on Indian fashion, called "Fashion Avenue" for worldwide B4U Network & FTV. He has been creatively involved with several high profile events. He has co-directed the AD-CLUB AWARDS 1997 with Nirang Desai (an advertising professional). He has co-directed the 1st LUX ZEE CINE AWARDS 1998 with Feroz Khan (one of the most successful directors in Indian theatre). He has also co-directed the 1st SANSUI VIEWERS CHOICE MOVIE AWARDS 1998 and "AYE WATAN TERE LIYE", a multi-star film industry event for the Indian Army, with Anupam Kher (one of the most prolific actors). His particular interest area is music, and especially South Asian music. His efforts towards getting the music of South Asia together on one platform resulted in the first ever South Asian concert, which was in aid of the earthquake victims in Gujarat. UNITED FOR GUJARAT held on the 13th May'2001 in the Jawahar Lal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, brought together four of the most popular bands from South Asia. Euphoria and Silk Route from India, Junoon from Pakistan and Miles from Bangladesh performed at the concert, which was very well received by the international media. He was instrumental in introducing the sufi-rock group JUNOON to India when they performed at the 1st Lux Zee Cine Awards. He also handled their initial media promotions. He has also designed several corporate launches and promotions for various companies and organisations, some of which are: an Italian firm LIBERTI's Liberblu collection, which was accompanied by a ramp show featuring many leading models and choreographed by Sangeeta Chopra ; CONCORD designer watches ; MONSANTO, a multinational life-sciences company ; SANSUI, an electronics giant ; ORIGIN Technologies, a computer software company ; SAARTHAK, an N.G.O. for which he designed and directed Hope-A-Live, an event which included leading school bands of Delhi ; He has also conceptualised and designed a Special Auction of Unique Numbers for AIRTEL, a mobile telephone network company ; a corporate show for ERICSSON featuring the Jazz-Blues band of Babush Santana and Ashley Lobo's dance troupe. He has designed shows for COLGATE-PALMOLIVE including the re-launch of Charmis cosmetic cream. He has been one of the event coordinators for the Garden City Festival of Magic, held in Bangalore in 1997. A first of its kind, and a unique festival of magic, where more than 200 magicians from all over the world took part. He was the Producer of a musical "The Chorus Line", which was performed in New Delhi and was extremely well received, with Ashley Lobo as the choreographer. He was also asked to co-ordinate the UN Foundation Day celeberations held at the UN headquarters, New York on the 24th Oct.'2001. Euphoria from India and Junoon from Pakistan performed together at the UN General Assembly Hall in a unique first of its kind event. He is presently working in the Hindi Film Industry as an Executive Producer. He was the Executive Producer for the film "Socha Na Tha", which is Produced by Sunny Deol & Directed by Imtiaz Ali. He was the Co-Producer, along with Salman Ahmad (the lead member of the band Junoon), of a short musical film "Ghoom Taana", based on a song by the same name, sung by Shubha Mudgal and Salman Ahmad of Junoon. It featured Nandita Das. This short musical film was a unique Indian-Pakistani co-production, with equal number of cast and crew from both the countries, Directed by Saqib Malik. As an Executive Producer in Yash Raj Films, he produced the film "Dhoom", Directed by Sanjay Gadhvi. Educational Qualifications : Bachelor of Journalism (Hons.) from Delhi University. Certificate Course in Photography from Triveni Kala Sangam (New Delhi). Diploma in Film and Television Production from Xavier Institute of Communication (Bombay).
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