Interview with Gillian Pinto

Friends happy to share the Interview with recently released Nirmal Anand Ki Puppy Actress Gillian Pinto . 

What inspired you to get into the Theatres or in Acting ? Any specific moment you wish to share with readers ? 

Gillian - I love living the life of different characters. Being on stage makes me happy, the thrill of performing in front of an audience. The energy and the rush is indescribable. I fell more in love with cinema while shooting for my fim Nirmal Anand Ki Puppy. 

Can you brief about the journey towards being an Actress from student to this stage ?

Gillian - I have always acted in plays in school, I was even a singer and loved the performing arts. However I only decided to pursue it as a career while I started rehearsing a play in Pune - Girish Karnad's Tale Danda, after quitting my job of 4 years in an MNC. One play, led to another and then another, untill one day I got to host a travel show for a Television channel. I just got drawn into this beautiful yet absolutely uncertain world of the arts, without pausing to think or strategize or make any goals for my future. I am still on this journey of learning, unlearning, re - learning and reinventing :-)

Interview with Nitin Sahu

You all know at ideasforideas , we have started a talkathon , interview sessions with the experts from different domain. Today I have chosen the domain of "IT products/services". I have taken the interview of Nitin Sahu , Who is the founding member @ helicaltech.com. I have liked his journey from student to entrepreneurship, and how he is shaping up the helicaltech at this time.

Me : Can you brief about the journey towards Enterpreneurship domain from student to this stage?
Nitin : I completed my Engineering from KKWIEER, nasik from that time itself I dreamt of working for myself. Then I did my MBA (IT) from SICSR (Symbiosis) to take it to next level. I planned my career when I was doing my MBA, first joined a small company and challenged my skill set for first few years. And then start my own. I was fortunate enough that the opportunity came to me at the right time. I started Helical Nov, 2012 and since then I never looked back. We as a team did everrything right to get our first customer and then to keep on surpassing their expectations every single time. Today, we have surved companies like CA technologies, Sage Human Capital, Pathways (an NGO) to name a few. They not just liked our work they simply loved it. 


Me : Do you believe in spirituality ?
Nitin : I believe in Humanity. I feel for humans, animals and all the creatures.

Me : How do you find this domain/work as a different than others , which things keeps you inspiring ?
Nitin : Work is fun for me. I never feel like working, it feels like I am just doing some regular work here at Helical. My team is awesome, my clients are awesome, and that keeps me going on and on. 

Me : Which are the current products you are serving , what those products do ?
Nitin : We at helical are highly focused company. We work with open source Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence tools. We provided services on Pentaho, Jaspersoft and Talend. These are the market leader in open source DW and BI space. These tools helps you to migrate data from one source to another source, helps create your own data warehouse from your transactional systems, helps visualize your data in different format, helps to create reports, dashboard, cubes and ahoc/self service reports. Apart from providing services on the above mentioned tools we have developed our own BI tool called Helical Dashboard Insights (HDI). HDI is a BI platform which helps you to customize your BI tool according to your BI needs. It is also a very developer friendly BI tool which is capable of developing reports, dashboards, cubes and ad-hoc reports.  

Interview with Monica Murthy

Monica Murthy

From today I am beginning the new era in ideasforideas by taking textual interviews of the people who are the influential in the particular industry , that can be any industry.

This time I have selected the sector "Media" , Yes , I would like to introduce Monica Murthy.  Actress/Anchor/Singer/Blogger who has given her time for ideasforideas.

Me : Can you brief about the journey towards Anchoring/Actress/Modelling domain from student to this stage?
Monica : I am an MBA graduate in Media and Communication from Whistling Woods International (Mumbai). I grew up in Nasik. After schooling, my education had a complex fusion of Science, Commerce and Arts.

In spite of scoring well, I quit engineering to pursue my creative interests in Media and Anchoring. I am a trained singer with 5 years of degree in Hindustani Classical music. My overall interest has been in the lesser know career fields like anchoring, hosting, modelling and acting.

I always anchored events in my small town for shows like media seminars, corporate launches, Government events etc. I was placed in Doordarshan TV as a marketing Executive through campus placement. I was managing the hosting events in parallel with my MBA degree as well as my day job. My bol-bachan career gave me immense confidence.

This is when I voluntarily started exploring opportunities in DD News Channel (it’s always good to begin with one’s comfort zone). I was selected after a screen test. After getting registered as an anchor with Doordarshan, many of my shows have been telecast.

Thereby i started anchoring for following brands:

ZOOM TV

VODAFONE

GOAFEST 2015

BLOGADDA

CINEMA 100 WHistling Woods

Channel V

TIMES CRICKET SHIELD AWARDS


Then acted in PKDH for 5 months, Acted as one of the leads of the three stories in my upcoming film 'Bollywood Diaries' and as a Pakistani Journalist in "WELCOME TO KARACHI" to be released on MAY 21.

Monica Murthy

Me : Do you believe in spirituality ?
Monica : If yes then how does it help in real day to day life ?
Yes i do believe in God and Spirituality. I am a follower of Hinduism at the same time i believe in all religion. It helps me to calm down when i am disturbed and helps me gather hope in times of worries

Me : How do you find this domain as a different than others , which things keeps you inspiring ?
Monica : This domain is art and the word art itself proves its unique and has its own representation. It keeps me inspiring because i love to keep exploring different facets of art and media. It shows a new face n land of opportunities to me everyday

Me : What are the current assignments you are dealing with ?
Monica : I would be flying to Dubai for my next Event and it being my first international event i am excited. Besides this i am excited for the release of my tow upcoming films 'WELCOME TO KARACHI' & ''BOLLYWOOD DIARIES'

Me : How do you find the time for yourself from busy schedule ? Do you meet your old friends ?
Monica : YES !!! I do find time for myself i also sing so i spend days when i am free doing my music Riyaaz and taking care of my fitness. I love to catch up with old friends its refreshing and i love socializing with near and dear ones

Me : Did you come across a struggling time while in this journey ? What are the symptoms of those ;) ? and How to overcome those.
Monica : Yes offcourse Struggling is an essential part of your journey in media. There was a time when i was still working with Doordarshan and i gave auditions for serials as and when i got time and when i got PKDH it was rewarding. It does take time to get worthy work here but one shouldn't be choosy initially. Whenever i got upset in those times i ventured into my other strengths and again started Anchoring and doing VOICE OVER WORK.

Me : How do you describe your challenging role in "Pyar ka dard hai meetha meetha" ?
Monica : It was my best experience till date, Rajshri made me feel so comfortable and it was a great learning over all. I pretty much connected well with the character 'Rukhsar' as she was bubbly and a urdu speaking girl. 

Me : Can you give a small idea for ideasforideas.org readers about opportunities in this domain ? 
Monica : I would like you all to know that the key to success in any field is 'to believe in yourself and the hard work you put in'. Do not be very choosy in picking opportunities initially at the start of your career as i had mentioned earlier but be cautious at the same time. Plan well and execute well. Always keep your feet well grounded whichever heights you reach. Cheers !!!

Thanks Monica for your valuable inputs.

Team ideasforideas.