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In this compelling episode of The Brand Called You, veteran actor Arif Zakaria shares his incredible journey from theater to television, Bollywood, and OTT. With iconic performances in Darmiyaan, 1947: Earth, Raazi, Haunted-3D, and Freedom at Midnight, Zakaria shares insights, experiences, and the evolution of Indian entertainment.00:49- About Arif Zakaria Arif is an actor.  He has acted in Darmiyaan, 1947: Earth, Raazi, Haunted-3D, and Freedom at Midnight.

Sundip Ved, a multifaceted talent who shines on both the silver screen and behind the microphone, joins Voice Over Par Charcha powered by voicesbazaar.com! We explore Sundip's diverse career, from his captivating performances in films like Raazi, Major, Razakar, Operation Valentine, etc to his impactful roles in web series like Jamnapaar and Rakshak - India's Braves (Amazon miniTV). Get ready for an insightful conversation as we delve into the unique challenges and rewards of acting and voice acting, and gain valuable advice from Sundip himself. Whether you're an aspiring voice actor or simply fascinated by the world of entertainment, this episode is a must-watch! Don't miss out on Sundip's journey and upcoming projects.

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Bollywood actress Rani Mukerji, celebrated for her recent roles in films like No One Killed Jessica and Mardaani, is in advanced talks to lead Shonali Bose's upcoming family drama. According to sources, Mukerji has been reviewing scripts for two years and feels a strong connection with Bose's project, which is set to begin filming in September 2024. Junglee Pictures, known for hits like Talvar and Raazi, will produce the film, aiming for a 2025 release. Following this, Mukerji is expected to work on Mardaani 3, the next instalment in her successful franchise with Yash Raj Films.

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  Who doesn't love a good James Bond thriller? In this episode, our guests, after spending over 50 years in the high-tech business, decided they wanted to return to their passion. What is their passion? Their passion is spy movies. Dan Silvestri and Tom Pivvato did their research and they discovered that most sites are dedicated solely to James Bond movies. They kept exploring and found out by examining other spy movies that had been made that so many of them are interrelated. Their curiosity led them to discover things about the origins of spy movies, common themes, scenes that you see within different movies, and the influence each spy movie has on others in this genre. They started a podcast called Spy Movie Navigator, and this podcast is designed to enhance your viewing experience when you watch different movies. It was created as a landing pad for people interested in spy movies, from the classics to current releases. There's so much to talk about in this episode so tune in! — Watch the episode here https://youtu.be/6Ez6fNzjH-o?si=ICE3OxN6tKHvFYCf   Listen to the podcast here   Spy Movie Navigator: Cracking The Spy Movie Code With Dan Silvestri And Tom Pivvato Who doesn't love a good James Bond thriller? In this episode, our guests after spending over 50 years in the high-tech business decided they wanted to return to their passion. What is their passion? Their passion is spy movies. They did their research and they discovered that most sites are dedicated solely to James Bond movies. They kept exploring and found out by examining other spy movies that had been made that so many of them are interrelated. Their curiosity led them to discover things about the origins of spy movies, common themes, scenes that you see within different movies, and the influence each spy movie has on others in this genre. They started a podcast called Spy Movie Navigator, and this podcast is designed to enhance your viewing experience when you watch different movies. It was created as a landing pad for people interested in spy movies, from the classics to current releases. There's so much to talk about in this episode so let's get started. Welcome to the show, Dan and Tom. We're very happy to be there. Gail, it's fantastic to be here. Thanks for inviting us. I'm excited to talk to you and learn more about this passion of yours. First of all, tell the readers what ignited your passion for delving into the genre of spy movies.     I'll go first on that one. First of all, we have a website called SpyMovieNavigator.com and the podcast show is called Cracking the Code of Spy Movies! It went back to high school. I was at St. Ignatius High School, and my friends and I decided when Goldfinger came out that we were going to cut classes and sneak downtown and go see Goldfinger. It was the third James Bond movie ever out. We had a system in the class where the teachers took a roll call and they put the names on a piece of paper. They clipped it outside the door and then someone would come and pick it up. If your name was on the list, you were in the class. If it wasn't, you were absent. A friend of ours, our mission was to go downtown and see Goldfinger. Our inside guy was going to put our names on the lists for each of our classes and everything was going to be great. We went downtown and saw Goldfinger. It was terrific. I went back to school the next day, and we were in detention. Our friend chickened out. We were in detention for about a week, but it was worth it. That's got me started on the spy movies and James Bond in particular. How about you? For me, it was back in spy movies and the Columbo TV show. Columbo's not a spy, but it got me going on the genre of it. However, when I looked at things like The Spy Who Loved Me, which was the first Bond movie that I saw in the theater, it was like, “This is different. I like this type of movie.” That helped me with that. Why we started delving into them other than being fans is that we were on a trip and we were up in Piz Gloria, which is this mountaintop retreat that was used in the movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service. It's gorgeous up there, and it's like this remote little thing on top of a mountain. Where is this located? It's in Switzerland. It's 10,000 feet up. It was above the town of Mürren. Dan and I were sitting in the bar that night and we're like, “We liked it so much. There's got to be other people who would like this.” We started looking into, “Can we do something around this?” I was thinking at that time about retirement and looking for something to do, and we were like, “Can we do something here?” A few years later, here we are and having a heck of a good time. Tell us about what are the origins of spy movies. You mentioned Columbo. I would think of Columbo off the top of my head or Goldfinger. I think it was one of the first James Bond movies I saw. What are the origins of spy movies? As you did your exploration into this genre, what did you discover? When you look back on spy movies, everyone thinks of James Bond. Ian Fleming wrote all the novels and stuff starting in 1953 but if you look back on spy movies, they've been around for decades before that. You go back in the history of spy movies, you look at the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock movie, The 39 Steps. Many people consider that to be the first official spy movie. There were a few before that. It was a silent movie too, as well. I was going to ask about that. If there were any silent movies. I'll talk about one of those. It's one that I like better than Dan does. As I said, there were a few others before that. The 39 Steps though was the birth of the more modern concept of what a spy movie is. A lot of the elements that we see now in spy movies from that point forward came from the roots of these older spy movies like The 39 Steps in 1935, Secret Agent, which was also a Hitchcock-directed movie in 1936 and others liked. Those began the real spy movie genre back in the '30s. What was the Doris Day movie where she sang Que Sera, Sera? The Man Who Knew Too Much. It was both a 1934 version and a 1956 version of that. He was in the 56th version of that but Hitchcock did both of them. I also think that influencing spy movies, World War I and World War II played a big role. In what way? It's because a lot of the early spy movies were around spying on your war enemy. There was a lot of influence there. The first spy movie that I know of is something called Spione. It's a German silent movie by Fritz Lang. It being silent is nice because they can put up English subtitles there, which is nice. What year did that come out? That was a 1928 movie. You can find it online on YouTube. There's a version out there by BluRay Classic Studios. It's a pretty good print of it. There are some that are tough prints, but that one's a pretty good one. We see many of the tropes used in that movie used in future movies even though this was a silent movie. You also have The 39 Steps that Dan talked about. By the time he got to that, the formula was there in terms of getting us into what a spy movie should look like or what the industry thinks it should look like. Tom mentioned the spies, World War II, and the World Wars. There's a movie coming out now. It's The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, and that is based on a real World War II Operation, Operation Postmaster. We already saw it. When you first started getting together and getting your ideas together, how did you discover that certain spy movies or themes are interrelated? What was your take on that? Why do you think that is? I think a couple of things. Spies, like Ian Fleming, for instance, he was an internal intelligence officer for the British. He was a naval intelligence officer. He knew a lot of stuff that was going on. As a matter of fact, he was involved in many of the operations that were executed in World War II. The concept of what goes into real spying worked its way into the movies for sure certainly because of Fleming and how he popularized spies. However, it's the real-world element I think that influenced what went into spy movies. Absolutely. Also, trains, Dan. Every spy movie has got to have a train. The early spy movies all had train scenes, and now almost every spy movie has a train scene in it. Many with a fight on the train which is pretty interesting. The greatest fight of all on the train was From Russia with Love. You see something like that and it influences the next movie out. Also, other things like there's a mole in the organization. Hitchcock called it MacGuffin, where you have an object that people are going for. What it is doesn't matter. It's the mission of getting that whatever it is, that MacGuffin. Hitchcock started that and everybody started using that. It's another tool that Hitchcock used. I was going to ask you. You saw that in other spy movies. Does he always appear in every movie? Yes, he did. In some form. Yes. Did other people copy him or not? Yes. They did. A little bit here and there, but not as much as Hitchcock, I don't think. Is Michael G. Wilson a producer or owner? He's one of the two guys that owns Eon Productions. He produces the James Bond movies. Since he started working on them, I don't know one that he's not in. I think he's in all of them. He's not in all of the early ones, but he's in certainly the later ones. He started working. He does that. He makes a little cameo. It has been done. Hitchcock though, when he did it, he started putting himself in earlier in the movies because people were so distracted looking for him that they weren't paying attention to the movie. I think one other influence that I wanted to make sure I talked about here is real-world spy stuff. Real-world espionage tasks. Things like something called a brush pass where you two people pass and they hand something off. It's so fast you don't even see it or a dead drop where they put something somewhere or a predetermined place and somebody else comes by later and picks it up. As things change in the real espionage world, some of that stuff ends up hitting into the real spy movies. The real-world espionage world is influencing what we see on screen. Do you think there are ebbs and flows to the audience's interest in this genre? Does it change according to world events? You mentioned world events do play into the development of these spy movies. Does what's going on in the outside world have any impact on the interest in the genre? I think, absolutely especially in Eon Productions, the people who produce the James Bond movies. They are constantly looking at what's going on in the world for their movies because they're out of Fleming material. Fleming wrote about thirteen novels and short story collections. They're out of Fleming material for the most part. They're always constantly looking at what's going on in the real world, what's the influence of that on the global perspective of country versus country, and so on. Also, spy versus spy. That makes a lot of sense for them to do. Also, the people who are familiar with it, they're going to be more interested in that. It's smart business to do it, but it's certainly a good source of information for them to do the screenplays and write new material. I also think the whole ebb and flow thing comes into play with things like the Cold War. There were a ton of spy movies and they had to shift after the Cold War “ended.” How espionage was done is still all there, but it's not as big of a thing in people's minds as when we were very heavily involved in the Cold War. As the world events happen now, I'm going to bet we're going to see more Russian and Asian spy conflicts happening here and that will be a very big influence on the industry. That leads to the next question that came top of mind. Are spy movies in different countries different than ones that originate in the United States or do they play off one another? Do they copy or is there something common depending on which country they're produced in? We did one on Raazi, which was produced in India. Again, I think you have a subset of themes that are in spy movies, and it's oftentimes country versus country for one reason or another. In this Indian movie, it was the Indian-Pakistani War during that timeframe. Again, they're going to frame it from their Indian perspective and what a spy organization looks like for India versus Britain, the United States, or whatever. However, that was a very interesting movie because now you're seeing their perspective of their battle basically with Pakistan. They did a fair job of presenting both sides evenly. It's going to be different from each country, but it's going to be their perspective that brings it to the film but still this subset of tropes, standards, and things that happen in the real spy world that are going to be used over and over again. Also with India, though, Dan, there's a different formula in India for doing a movie. Most of the movies that are over two hours long get an intermission. It's Bollywood-based, there's a dance break in the middle of the movie with a song. Even if you don't have the dance break, they've got musical interludes where they advance the story without dialogue. It's just whatever the lyrics to the song are and not the actors talking. The style is different, but the concepts are going to be very often similar. If you take a look at the Chinese movie Cliff Walkers from a few years ago where you take Pathaan, which was another Indian movie. It's us versus them, whoever them is, whether it's a country or another organization and we've got to stop them from doing something bad. That's very common across all of the movies that I've seen across all the different nationalities. In Raazi, when they were smoking, they put a flash-up on the screen saying, “Smoking kills.” They do some things differently. What other influencers would you say play into the spy genre? I think you have a lot of things. We were talking about the real world that influences what goes in but you also have spy movies that influence other spy movies. Those are the kinds of things that I think we look at. This one we did was on The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. We looked at maybe 4, 5, or 6 other movies that you can reference within that movie that you could say, “This kind of thing was going on in this movie or that movie,” and so on. I think that's a big influence. What happens in one spy movie, if it's successful, you will see it over and over again like the train concept that Tom was talking about in future spy movies. That's a biggie. One example of things coming from the real world was from the Goldfinger movie in 1964, when James Bond in the pre-title sequence comes out of the water in a wetsuit. He's going to go into this area and blow up some stuff he needs to blow up. He's in a wetsuit, but he unzipped it and he's in a tuxedo so that he looks like he fits into his atmosphere. You'd think, “This could never happen in the real world, and this is just fantasy stuff.” However, it did happen in the real world in World War II. There was an operation in the Netherlands where a specially made wetsuit was made for this diver. He was to go in and extract a couple of prisoners from this German mansion, and he was going to fit in because he had the tuxedo on and be able to walk right in and do this. It happened in real life. It's that kind of stuff constantly they're looking for. Tom and I look for that in these movies and bring that out because a lot of people would not pay attention to that kind of thing. We're bringing these different elements out to the movies, but they're big influencers in what happens in the movies. I think the times matter a lot too. When we talked about the Cold War, there were a lot of things. If you think about something like Star Wars, it wasn't a spy movie, but it had a very direct influence on the James Bond movie Moonraker. Bond used to smoke cigarettes. He doesn't do that anymore. The womanizing has been brought way down and now, the next thing we're seeing in spy movies is the topic of artificial intelligence. Many people don't know what it means so in the movies that makes it be anything they want, and totally ridiculous. I think it's going to be overplayed. We saw it in the last Mission Impossible movie, and it didn't make a lot of sense to me. I understand that stuff a bit. The other thing is you see influences on what was successful in another movie, maybe not on a specific, “We were on a train and had a fight,” but action sequences have gotten bigger and bigger. They keep trying to outdo the last movie with an action scene and stunts. It's raising the budgets to an almost unsustainable level. I think it's going to be interesting to see how that calms down because if you look at something like The Ministry that we talked about or Raazi, there are not as many of those big action scenes in them but the industry was trying to one-up each other for quite a while there with the stunts mainly in spy movies and that's not really about the espionage. That's just about how a spy movie is made. That's what's going on now, and it's been going on for several decades. It's the battle between espionage for spy movies. We're talking about espionage and real espionage life happens in From Russia with Love versus action movies, which many of the Mission Impossible movies are. The producers are constantly looking at what selling and they're making those adjustments. If action is selling, their spy movie is more action-oriented than espionage-oriented. That's a constant battle, and it changes over time. It also changes from country to country. It is a battle for the producers to try to figure out what to do next but it has been a battle between those two elements, espionage and action for decades. They say timing is everything and I know that the James Bond series has been constantly popular with every generation. Let's talk a little bit about that. Is that sustainable or is there any other competition to James Bond that has been as successful?     I think James Bond, it's been around since 1962 for movies. It was in 1953 when Ian Fleming started writing Casino Royale. It's been around for over 60 years. Is this sustainable? It looks like it. They've done a good job so far. Will it continue to be sustainable? Everyone's waiting to see what their next decision is because Daniel Craig is no longer James Bond. That's been since 2019. That's been out and nothing's been done since. People are wondering what's going to happen next. It's a challenge, but I think they're going to continue to try to produce it. They do get new and younger people interested. They must or else the older people are not going to be around to watch the new movies. It's interesting how all the different generations enjoy it and flock to those movies. If you ask somebody who their favorite James Bond actor is, it's likely to be whoever they saw first in the role. I mentioned that these things change over time and adapt to time. If they were putting out some of the womanizing stuff that happened in the early Bonds, they might not get the audiences now. Their ability to adapt is extremely important. It's a must for the money or just to be successful. If you look at other series that have tried to take on Bond, you had Bourne, which was a very good probably first two movies, and then it tapered off. You had Mission Impossible, which is still very strong although they're at a critical point now with Ethan Hunt and Tom Cruise playing Ethan Hunt. Now, the nice thing with Mission Impossible is the team members come and go so they could easily say, “It's not Ethan Hunt. We've got a new head of whatever the team is.” With the Bond movies, it's harder for them to do that. They have to say, “Here's a new actor and we're going on our merry way.” Mission Impossible is the franchise that has any chance of competing with the James Bond franchise. You look at that by Box Office numbers, and they're the only ones who compete globally versus James Bond. James Bond is a global phenomenon, and so is Mission Impossible. Many of the other franchises that are trying. They even tried Harry Palmer in the mid-'60s, and that was based on Len Deighton's books and so on. They did three of them and that was the end of that. It's very difficult to do, but Mission Possible probably is in the best position to challenge the Bond franchise. With streaming, there are a lot of companies trying. Netflix has put out a bunch of things that they've said, “This is our answer to go after Bond. We want this to be a series like Bond.” You had the Kingsman. We are watching A Gentleman in Moscow right now. This series happens, but nothing stuck as well as Bond. Let me ask you this. How did your background in high tech play into, if in any way, your passion for the spy genre? Did it have any influence or was that something that was different for you when you wanted to pursue that? I'll let Tom talk about that because his background is high-tech. Mine is sales and marketing. I have a sales and marketing angle too. For me, I got hooked on Bond in high school. Gentlemen, we are running out of time, I'm sorry to say but tell me quickly how did this interest come after retirement and how has it helped you? You're growing older with gusto, you're passionate about this, and you have so many interesting things to talk about. In one sentence, tell us how this interest has helped you after retirement. Everyone wants to retire and when they get there, they're bored. I think before you retire, you need to know what you're going to do. If you're going to be traveling half the year, great. If you're going to write a book, great. Tom and I are doing this because it keeps your mind and body moving. It keeps you thinking and it keeps you moving forward. You have to have something to do after you retire. This is a productive entertaining thing. We're in the entertainment business so we're trying to entertain people.     For me, all I would add that is my wife gave me the guidance before I retired that I needed to have something specific to do. She was right and this ended up being a perfect opportunity for me. I get to keep my technical skills going a little bit with what I do. I enjoy doing the spy movie, so it gives me something to keep driving for. How can our readers find you and find your podcast? We have a website, SpyMovieNavigator.com. Our podcast show is called Cracking the Code of Spy Movies! It's also a YouTube channel with the same name. We're in every major podcast app like Apple, Overcast, and everything. Every one of them, we're in. You could go to your podcast app, look for Cracking the Code of Spy Movies, and start listening. We appreciate it.     Thank you, readers. I'm sure you enjoyed this episode. Please share it with your friends, and remember to stay curious and stay connected. Thank you very much. Thank you, Gail.   Important Links SpyMovieNavigator.com Cracking the Code of Spy Movies! YouTube – Cracking the Code of Spy Movies Apple – Cracking the Code of Spy Movies   About Dan Silvestri and Tom Pivvato Dan & Tom get together through a mutual interest in spy movies. This catapulted into their developing spymovienavigator.com and Cracking the Code of Spy Movies. Passionate about spy movies leads to a third act for Dan & Tom. They took a deep dive on the subject and created Cracking the Code of Spy Movies.

RAAZI Is A Spy Movie Worth Watching The 2018 Indian movie RAAZI is a spy movie worth watching. It is one of Tom's all-time favorite spy movies. Have you heard of RAAZI? RAAZI is a fictionalized drama about a real spy in the 1971 India-Pakistan war.  This is an espionage movie, not an action movie, which we think is a good thing. The central theme of this movie is “What are you prepared to do for your country?” Why is this a spy movie worth watching?   Dan and Tom detail the reasons why, and also talk about some of the criticisms of RAAZI. Listening to this episode will enhance your understanding and viewing experience of the movie! Alia Bhatt fans will not want to miss RAAZI. She is excellent in it, as is the rest of the cast. As of this posting (April 2, 2024), RAAZI is available on Amazon Prime in the US. RAAZI is released in the Hindi language with English subtitles.  So, have you seen RAAZI? If so, do you think RAAZI is a spy movie worth watching? Did Dan and Tom miss anything?  Let us know your thoughts, ideas for future episodes, and what you thought of this episode by dropping us a note at info@spymovienavigator.com.  The more we hear from you, the better the show will be! You can check out all of our CRACKING THE CODE OF SPY MOVIES podcast episodes on your favorite podcast app or our website. Check out our YouTube channel as well. Webpage: https://bit.ly/4cEKQcT

In this episode we hear from a dynamic duo - acclaimed writer-director Meghna Gulzar and versatile actor Vicky Kaushal. Over the years, both Gulzar and Kaushal have earned accolades for their impressive individual body of work. Having previously collaborated on the critically acclaimed and commercially successful "Raazi", they're now set to bring to life the inspiring journey of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw in the upcoming biopic, "Sam Bahadur." They were in conversation with Anant Goenka, Executive Director, The Indian Express group, and Shubhra Gupta, Film Critic, The Indian Express.

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Today we have with us someone who truly believes in this simple mission in life: To add a dash of glam to an otherwise glum world…. Delighted to have with us Priyanka Borkar - a renowned celebrity hairstylist and makeup artist. Priyanka began her career at seventeen having trained under – Kanta Motwani (Kromakay Salons, Mumbai) and went on to hone her skills at Vidal Sassoon & Kevin Fortune Hairstyling Academy (London, UK). She got her first break in Bollywood in 2009 when she got the opportunity to work with Priyanka Chopra. Since then, she's had the privilege & pleasure of working with some of the most respected & talented names in the Indian Film industry. She has also contributed her skills in several movies such as Raazi, Bajirao Mastani, Barfi, and Don 2. When she's not on set, Priyanka helps with the running of her mum's salon – ‘Beyond Beauty‘ in Mumbai.

Comparisons to Meghana Gulzar's Raazi were inevitable for Mission Majnu, starring Siddharth Malhotra and Rashmika Mandanna. However, the film does not manage to get close to the Alia Bhatt-starrer. It starts out with high stakes for the undercover spy, but lacks the depth and emotional core to pull off a realistic portrayal. Tune into the full review by Pratikshya Mishra!

Sri Mirajkar is an actor, writer and director from Virginia. His short film Mera Daddu (My Grandpa) is winning awards and is in the film festival circuit. It stars Shishir Sharma and has environmental protection themes.    Shishir Sharma is an accomplished actor with many years of experience in film and television. He is known for the Hindi films Raazi and Talvar.    The film Mera Daddu also stars Arya Thakur as Aslam, who plays a very pivotal part in the film.   

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Jean-Luc Godard once said, "Every Edit Is A Lie". Well in today's episode, let's explore the different dimensions and layers of editing. Nitin Baid joins us on Audiogyan. He is a film editor and a director in making. Nitin has worked for films like Masaan, Trapped, Gully Boy, 83, Raazi, Gangs of Wasseypur, Gunjan Saxena and many more.

Mita agrees to watch the 2018 spy-thriller "Raazi" for the next movie movie review and bonus episode number one for season two. Spoiler Alert: Nadeem liked the movie. 

Join us for the latest edition of the Movie Mount Rushmore Podcast as hosts Nico Lurot (@Nico Lurot) and Anthony "AJ" Jordan (@TonyNTR) are here to discuss the TOP 10 Spy Movies. From international spectaculars like The Bourne Identity to true stories like Raazi, classics like North by North-West, to Oscar Winners like Argo. If you have a liking for espionage and the mysterious, then this list is defo for you!.HERE'S HOW THE SHOW WORKS:Hosts, Aj and Nico each get assigned a topic, we go our separate ways to compile our individual TOP 10 lists on a new Movie topic each week. Then we rejoin to count down our individual lists where one person delivers their bottom 3 movies, then the other delivers their bottom 3. Then the original person delivers his next two, then the other person their next two. When we reach the top 5s on our list, we bounce back and forth and trade one a-piece. If at any time we are counting down our lists, one person has a movie in a higher position that person will say " PUNT" and we will then talk about that movie when we get to the higher position.Once both of our TOP 10 lists have been counted, we create the "Movie Mount Rushmore": these are the 4 quintessential, diverse, must see-see movies of the topic each week.We then put our 4 picks out on Twitter, and YOU all decide who the winner is! To vote, head on over to our Twitter page @MovieMtRushmore!You can now catch the Movie Mount Rushmore podcast as a visual show as well. Just head over to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbO...Be sure to share this podcast with all movies fans that you know, and follow us for free on Spreaker, https://www.spreaker.com/show/movie-m...Spotify, https://open.spotify.com/show/5wJ8H1Y...Apple Podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...CastBox, https://castbox.fm/channel/Movie-Moun...Deezer https://www.deezer.com/en/show/709182iHeartRadio, https://www.iheart.com/podcast/966mov...Podchaser: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/mo...TuneIn: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Media--En...Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/movie-m...

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What's common among these Hindi movies- Garm Hawa, Sparsh, Lamhe, Rudaali, Aina, Dil To Pagal Hai, Raazi, and Vicky Donor? The answer is a woman screenwriter on board. The 12th episode of Cineink podcast 'Kitaab Kaulum' features 'Scripting Bollywood: Candid Conversations With Women Who Write Hindi Cinema' by Anubha Yadav. Presented by broadcaster Achala Sharma, the podcast interviews Anubha Yadav and focuses on the life-world and writing practices of women screenwriters in Hindi cinema.In the trivia on books, Pervaiz Alam looks at the future of books- from Papyrus to e-books and audios.

How do you know what price to charge? How much is too much and how much is too little? Are you leaving money on the table? Setting prices for your products is one of the most important business decisions you'll make. In this episode pricing expert and author Cactus Raazi shares what to keep in mind when deciding what to charge. With his simple pricing strategy, you can discern tactics that will award loyal customers and grow your bottom line.   This is a production of Habanero Media. 

Today on the show we have Cactus Raazi, author of Price. In this episode, we talked about what drove Cactus to write Price, his theory on; should pricing be personalized to individual customers, and the different building blocks to create a more personalized pricing approach. We also discussed the starting point of the pricing conversation within a company, why pricing is often a guesstimation, and why that’s a problem, and lastly Cactus shares different ways to drive expansion revenue from existing customers, by rewarding loyalty.As usual, I'm excited to hear what you think of this episode, and if you have any feedback, I would love to hear from you. You can email me directly on andrew@churn.fm. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter.

On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Cactus Raazi, Author of the new book, Price: Maximizing Customer Loyalty Through Personal Pricing. We talk about the important, but often overlooked topic of price innovation, and how companies can use technology and experimentation to move from the traditional model of revenue maximization towards that of loyalty maximization. Let's get started.Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Brian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host, Brian Ardinger. And as always, we have another amazing guest. Today, we have Cactus Raazi. He is the founder and former CEO of Elephant. Now part of EXOS Financial, and author of the new book, Price: Maximizing Customer Loyalty Through Personal Pricing. Welcome Cactus. Cactus Raazi: Thank you very much. Appreciate you having me. Brian Ardinger: Cactus, I'm excited to have you on the show because this is a pretty important topic that doesn't often get talked about in the innovation front. You know, if you think about pricing, a lot of the pricing models have probably been around for 50 years. And yet when I'm working with startups or people introducing new products, they're always talking about how do I set my price and that. So, I'm really excited to hear your thoughts on that. To get started, in the book you talk a lot about, and you encourage companies to look at price differently. So, we'll dig into the details, but how did you get involved at researching and writing about the topic of price?Cactus Raazi: You know, it's interesting. My day job is in financial markets. And what we, myself, and the team have been working on for years are various algorithms to be able to automatically price different bonds at different times of the day for different customers under a wide variety of different conditions. And we started thinking about on the one hand data analytics and I had done a masters program at NYU in business analytics recently. And then on the other hand, I started thinking about the challenges of running a business in today, particularly in the B2C world. But a lot of what I had thinking about also has applications in B2B and really thinking about internet price transparency, and the destructive effects on pricing power for companies, large and small.And so, I kind of put everything together and started really thinking about why do we think so simplistically around pricing? Why has my professional experience, as you mentioned, generally been a table of old wise men and women sort of guesstimating a price or using a sort of rudimentary cost-plus approach.And most importantly, I think with everything that's going on around us, so many of the pricing approaches fail to take into account the individual customer, or they made it an unspoken assumption of homogeneity of the customer base. Or sort of an indifference. I don't care really who buys this good or service so long as they pay a certain price.And I don't think that that's going to be a useful way of thinking about the world going forward. There's a whole host of tools at our disposal. Referred to generally as data analytics. And there's a whole host of new threats that one needs to be thoughtful about, particularly around internet-based price comparison. Browser-based automated discounting. And we could go on and on, we talk about it in the book. Put these two things together and you think to yourself, look, am I in the business of maximizing the revenue of any potential transaction in the moment, or am I actually in the business of cultivating an increasingly loyal customer base. Such that my enterprise value starts to gravitate towards sort of that have recurring revenue streams.And this conversation is applicable for businesses, large and small. And we use a lot of examples in the book, anything from a sole proprietorship, maybe a hairstylist, all the way up to multinational corporations, airlines, things like that. Brian Ardinger: And I love that thought of moving from revenue, maximization to loyalty maximization. And a lot of that probably again, hasn't been really dealt with because of technology. And now we have some tools and data and that, that we didn't have at our fingertips to make some of those leaps that we can now. What do you think is holding people back from taking advantage of some of these technologies and actually going towards a more loyalty maximization model? Cactus Raazi: You know, in my survey of the landscape, I'm not necessarily aware of an impediment to use data in increasingly sophisticated ways. As we all know, there's so many off the shelf products. There are so many courses, everything from sort of how to use Excel on Coursera, all the way to, you know, a PhD in artificial intelligence or something along those lines at the other extreme. I feel that, particularly when it comes to pricing, just to not give you too general and answer, when it comes to pricing, I feel the fundamental question has yet to be asked, are we doing this correctly?And have we really unpacked the assumptions of our approach to be thoughtful around whether this is the right approach and whether we should be using a different set of tools. You know, even industries that are renowned for their ability to differentiate with price something. We could use airlines as an example.And I'm sure at maybe at one point in your career, you were probably some form of a frequent flyer. And I'm sure you would probably agree that while you were perfectly happy to pay different prices, based on various profiles and times of day. That that was not a price for you personally, it was a price meaning that if you were to log into a website, as a loyal customer and I were to log in to the same website you and I were to try and book the same thing, we wouldn't see a difference in price. We would see a difference in price on different days or, or, you know, you name it. There's a variety of obviously supply and demand techniques. And so right there you say, well, that's a sophisticated industry, but it hasn't really moved forward with thinking about the customer, rather than thinking about any customer who's willing to sit in the seat.And that's really at the core of the suggestions in the book is to say that step one, start collecting data about your customers. Obviously in an appropriate fashion and in a transparent fashion, such that you can start to identify behaviors, objectives, or any other elements of the customer, which you can then correlate to the types of behaviors you'd like to see from your customer base.And the book really exists at the level of strategy. And frankly, this conversation exists at the level of strategy. How should we be thinking about some of these questions and are there a new set of tools to be able to answer some really interesting questions around what the right price is, and right is defined as in my case, as maximizing loyalty. And also at the same time, there's this elephant in the room, which is the internet, and mobile commerce, and browser extensions, and couponification. And how are we going to react to the impact of these sort of margin destroying developments? Brian Ardinger: Well, and you've seen examples where there have been companies that have been a little bit more in the forefront of changing algorithms and that, to look at pricing. Uber comes to mind with their surge pricing, and obviously that's trying to maximize supply and demand and things along those lines, but then you have examples when the models go wrong, such that, you know, there's something that occurs the price to scoot up and, and it caused a PR backlash, for example. What are you seeing when it comes to companies and how they react to experimenting in this particular realm and the both the good in the bad around that? Cactus Raazi: Yeah. So, we've seen a lot of experimentation with personalization in what I would refer to as the general marketing realm, such as sending people emails or potentially coupons, identifying products that you may or may not be more or less interested in. And I think that that process is in relatively early stages that traditionally has not really dealt with price with one potential exception. Sometimes you send a premium or a coupon of some sort to say, you know, for you specifically it's 20% off.But I may say in my personal experience, this use specifically thing tends to be extremely wide net. So, everyone who has bought a pair of jeans from us in the last five years gets an email that says, great news, our jeans are 20% off. Although that's a start, I don't think that that's nothing to be particularly proud of.I think, you know, you're implying a second question, which is if you provide a better experience to your better customer, does that imply you're potentially providing a degraded experience to your not better customer? And the answer to that I think almost necessarily should be, yes. At the core of thinking about generating loyalty, almost certainly must be this idea that we have to define who our customer really is or who do we want our customer to be. And we have to ensure that we're treating that group appropriately. And it may come at the expense of people who have not demonstrated any loyalty. When we think about loyalty, we don't necessarily need to define it as someone who has patronized our business for a good or a service, for example, on a very regular basis for a very long time. In fact, I'd argue even a second visit is the beginnings of an attempt at loyalty. This is now a recurring customer is different than a first visit customer. It's easy to go from there to really thinking about, well, maybe we don't define loyalty at second, but at the third visit or at the third purchase of a good or a service, we should start to really think of this customer in a differentiated manner. This person's trying to do business with us, and we should be rewarding them. I think, you know, also it's interesting that you didn't ask, but I'll just bring up. There's been so much time and energy put into recapturing customers whom you have lost. This is generally referred to as churn management in the industry. And so much time and energy into predicting and avoiding churn, which tends to be, you know, a small number is definitely single digit percentage of your customer base in any given time period. If you have numbers greater than that, you actually have a product problem. But I would argue that the amount of time and energy you put into that portion of your customer base could potentially actually be better, spent ensuring the loyalty of your customers who have already demonstrated such loyalty. If this is the 72nd month in a row, you've simply paid your T-Mobile bill. Why are you not receiving some form of an indication that the company values you? And I believe that rather than giving me a coupon that tells me I'll get $10 off at Chipotle, I would rather just receive a discounted bill. Brian Ardinger: Yeah, absolutely. What are your thoughts from the perspective of how do you set pricing in the early days when you don't have those first customers or the early data is, is a little looser or less relevant or available. And specifically like on the startup side versus existing business side. Cactus Raazi: Yeah. You know, it's interesting, you say that startup pricing is very challenging, and it is a topic that many VCs or I would say professional startup investors try to give startups help with. Sort of the heuristic approach, but obviously you need to contemplate what are the costs of various substitutes or alternative paths to solve, whatever problem it is that you're solving. Another perspective would be of course, to think about how much value you're creating for the purchaser of your good or service. What is the value creation and how much of that do you think you can capture, particularly if you're creating an entirely new category, then the pricing question is one that needs to be approached with a degree of sensitivity? One of the things I would say, so I don't know that there's a one size fits all answer, but I'm trying to give you a few parameters of the conversation. I oftentimes get the implication that pricing is a obviously a sensitive or touchy topic. And I like to suggest to startups, the companies or the customers that you choose to do business with initially, you should feel comfortable in your pricing conversations, because if they're not interested in being a, let's just say for lack of a more descriptive word, a good customer. Initially, they might not be your best place to start your commercial journey.Brian Ardinger: Well, and the fact that I think a lot of startups are afraid to experiment early on for fear of losing that first customer when it comes to price and that. But. At the early days, you don't know what you don't know. And I've heard Eric Reese tell a story of going in and working with a company, and he basically just said, double the price, let's run an experiment. And it turns out more people bought it and let's double it again. And it turns out more people bought it. But without that experimentation, your assumptions really can't be played out. Cactus Raazi: So interesting. You asked the question I was asked about a week ago. What is your one piece of advice to companies that are starting out? It was a more of a sales conversation, than specifically sort of startup, but I said, don't be afraid to ask for more in terms of prices. That you know, again as salespeople, we all tend to be a little bit more focused on getting to yes, then perhaps we need to be. And I think there's a lot that you can learn from a customer saying no, so long as they described the know or want to be your partner in getting to S, starting from a place of no is not a problem.It's very difficult to propose a price, have the customer say yes, you can say, well, in that case, maybe I should raise it. Right. That's a very awkward conversation. But to propose a price that you'd be really thrilled with, and that would really put your business on a very sound footing, and to have your potential for first customer push back, and to understand why there's pushback, I think can be obviously very illuminating as to what you should do on a going forward basis. And you'll always have the option of saying, look for a first customer or for the following reasons, or since you've been so transparent, alternatively, as well, you can say, we'll go with your lower price, but let's create some conditions for success that allow us to raise prices, you know, so long as we meet certain conditions. You can kind of create a structure to get you to where you want to be, but in a manner that the customer feels is aligned with their interests. Brian Ardinger: Absolutely. So, in the book you give a lot of great examples. Well, actually good and bad examples of how companies have taken on this topic of price. Talk about Apple and Nordstrom's and the airlines. What are some companies that are doing it better than others? Cactus Raazi: I haven't seen particularly great examples specifically around price, but I have seen some companies do a great job of customer engagement with their digital platforms. I think a pretty good example of that most people would agree with is Starbucks.They have a really user-friendly app. Funny enough when you get this thing to recharge automatically, I've noticed that instead of recharging the app at about a dollar, it recharges it about 20 bucks. And if you multiply that by billions of people, if interest rates weren't at zero, that would be a lucrative business unto itself. That's a side note. They do a great job of encouraging the use of the app. My criticism of course, is rather than giving me stars, which I can eventually cash in for one of your goods. It would be actually an even bigger thrill, if when I zapped my app, I just get a different price, as a basis of my behavior with Starbucks, sort of how I'm engaging your organization.That would be my assertion. So, I think they do a great job of collecting the information. I think they provide an excellent experience. They've had widespread adoption of this platform of theirs, and I believe that the next step would be to try to further increase their customization down to the customer level.Brian Ardinger: You've mentioned some examples in the B2C realm, and that. Are there particular industries that are more ripe for some of these pricing innovations? Cactus Raazi: So long as you define your businesses, one where you encourage repeat customer type activity. If you're in the business of building nuclear reactors, I don't think I have a lot to offer because that's such a, one-off kind of a thing.On the other hand, there are a lot of businesses that have repeat customers in some way, shape or form. And I think those are the businesses for whom this approach is most applicable. And I think in the context of startups, so often we think about SaaS businesses or sort of subscription style businesses.I mean, that's all the rage with many, not all startups, but many startups obviously. And some of these ideas also apply. I believe even when you have a subscription business and you propose that there is a price, it's not necessarily the case that that needs to be offered to all customers at all times under all conditions.So even there, I would think, you know, look, we can always advertise an initial price and then start to really think about our customer base. Why are they using their product? How are they using our product? What can we be doing to improve the channel and increase the loyalty to every one of our customers?It could be anything along the lines of, we came out with Product A. It seems to have been achieving some success. We're now launching Product B with regards to pricing. What could we do on Product B to take advantage of the loyalty we have already generated with Product A? That's the question that very few companies would ask themselves.They would say we come out with a second product and it's priced at X with no differentiation between a customer, who's never done business with them before, and this large base of customers that they have on Product A. Brian Ardinger: Or thinking more broadly about what does price mean? It doesn't, it's not necessarily just the actual price that you pay for that good or service, but it's the services wrapped around that that can augment or change the value creation or the loyalty around it. Cactus Raazi: 100%. That's exactly correct. And I think that the statement you just made is something that so often slips through the cracks in our fundamental approach to coming up with a price. You know, you think a lot about what your input costs may have been or various other elements, and you forget to think about well if a customer has done a lot of business with us in the past, shouldn't we treat them differently. And the other thing I would say by the way as part and parcel of this conversation is also the broader customer experience. I argue that price is a really important sort of a fulcrum of the customer experience. But in today's day and age, the scarcity is all the rage and limited additions and one-offs, and all of these things are also, you know, very much becoming fashionable. So, it's not always the case that you need to necessarily discount. We're really saying price to the customer, but it may be something along the lines of, we have a limited-edition item and you're getting access to it, even though it's actually at a premium.Brian Ardinger: So, what else in the book have we maybe not covered that you want to make sure our audience understands they can get some value out of it. Cactus Raazi: We've covered a lot of the approaches. We haven't spent a lot of time on the threats, and we talk a little bit about in the book about not only is e-commerce sort of gravitating towards generally towards price displayed user interfaces.And of course, with mobile, that starts to be happening in real time, even in the brick-and-mortar environment. But really, we talk also about, it's not likely that we'll be doing traditional website based commerce, forever voice assistance, and other further automation is creeping slowly but surely into our lives.And if you think about that, it becomes even scarier because it's not likely that these paradigms with the voice assistance and with other additional levels of automation would offer anything other than the lowest price. Why would your voice assistant tell you that the same good are services available at three different prices?Right. That's sort of annoying. And you'd say, just give me the cheapest one, right? That we all gravitate to that. So, we mentioned that only because even if you feel that you can handle the current levels of competition and price transparency that are being generated by the internet and by the browser extensions, and by the coupon crawlers and all the things that already exist. It's important to recognize that there are additional levels of threat that are only going to further erode your pricing power, unless you're starting to price to the customer, which is no longer widely available. We are seeing very early signs of such a thing, such as you go to a website and you need to input your email address prior to being allowed access to the experience. So, we're seeing early signs and I think that thinking a lot about the threats of technology and the deflationary impact of technologies is another important part of what we bring up in the book Brian Ardinger: The last topic I want to talk about is COVID-19 and how that may have affected and made the changing landscape of pricing and that.  What kind of examples are things have you seen from this acceleration of this disrupted world?Cactus Raazi: It's funny, I'm glad you used the word acceleration because that's exactly the word that I think is the appropriate word. They call it the great accelerant and I've seen all of that. So yeah. What we've seen, I'm sure as you've seen is we've seen significant changes in behavior. And I think that we've seen as so much more of our activity has gone from analog to digital, we've seen a lot more opportunities to capture information about with whom we're doing business and various elements of our customer base and start to use those things. I have not necessarily seen tangible impact of such, but clearly, most companies at this point have gotten the wakeup call that the shift to electronic commerce, which was always obviously underway, has now only accelerated.And I think what you're going to start to see in my humble opinion Is providers of platforms such as Shopify or big commerce, really start to think about how can we give our users additional tools to help them do more business and do better business with their customers. And I think so between the CRMs and the sort of e-commerce platforms, I think we will likely see a fair amount of innovation.Brian Ardinger: Well, Cactus, thank you very much for coming on Inside Outside Innovation, to tell us a little bit more about this. It's a fascinating topic. And like I said, so important and often overlooked topic when it comes to innovation and that. If people want to find out more about yourself or the book, what's the best way to do that?Cactus Raazi: Probably LinkedIn I'm on LinkedIn Cactus, like the plant, Razi is R A A Z I.  Easy to find me and I love to hear from people and I'm happy to be helpful. I'm not in the business of consulting. I have no agenda. I'm just trying to be helpful for its own sake. Brian Ardinger: Excellent. Well, we appreciate you sharing your knowledge here today, and thanks very much for coming on the show. Look forward to continuing the conversation as the world evolves. Cactus Raazi: Absolute pleasure. Good luck.Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. 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On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Cactus Raazi, Author of the new book, Price: Maximizing Customer Loyalty Through Personal Pricing. We talk about the important, but often overlooked topic of price innovation, and how companies can use technology and experimentation to move from the traditional model of revenue maximization towards that of loyalty maximization. Let's get started.Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat into what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Interview TranscriptBrian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host, Brian Ardinger. And as always, we have another amazing guest. Today, we have Cactus Raazi. He is the founder and former CEO of Elephant. Now part of EXOS Financial, and author of the new book, Price: Maximizing Customer Loyalty Through Personal Pricing. Welcome Cactus. Cactus Raazi: Thank you very much. Appreciate you having me. Brian Ardinger: Cactus, I'm excited to have you on the show because this is a pretty important topic that doesn't often get talked about in the innovation front. You know, if you think about pricing, a lot of the pricing models have probably been around for 50 years. And yet when I'm working with startups or people introducing new products, they're always talking about how do I set my price and that. So, I'm really excited to hear your thoughts on that. To get started, in the book you talk a lot about, and you encourage companies to look at price differently. So, we'll dig into the details, but how did you get involved at researching and writing about the topic of price?Cactus Raazi: You know, it's interesting. My day job is in financial markets. And what we, myself, and the team have been working on for years are various algorithms to be able to automatically price different bonds at different times of the day for different customers under a wide variety of different conditions. And we started thinking about on the one hand data analytics and I had done a masters program at NYU in business analytics recently. And then on the other hand, I started thinking about the challenges of running a business in today, particularly in the B2C world. But a lot of what I had thinking about also has applications in B2B and really thinking about internet price transparency, and the destructive effects on pricing power for companies, large and small.And so, I kind of put everything together and started really thinking about why do we think so simplistically around pricing? Why has my professional experience, as you mentioned, generally been a table of old wise men and women sort of guesstimating a price or using a sort of rudimentary cost-plus approach.And most importantly, I think with everything that's going on around us, so many of the pricing approaches fail to take into account the individual customer, or they made it an unspoken assumption of homogeneity of the customer base. Or sort of an indifference. I don't care really who buys this good or service so long as they pay a certain price.And I don't think that that's going to be a useful way of thinking about the world going forward. There's a whole host of tools at our disposal. Referred to generally as data analytics. And there's a whole host of new threats that one needs to be thoughtful about, particularly around internet-based price comparison. Browser-based automated discounting. And we could go on and on, we talk about it in the book. Put these two things together and you think to yourself, look, am I in the business of maximizing the revenue of any potential transaction in the moment, or am I actually in the business of cultivating an increasingly loyal customer base. Such that my enterprise value starts to gravitate towards sort of that have recurring revenue streams.And this conversation is applicable for businesses, large and small. And we use a lot of examples in the book, anything from a sole proprietorship, maybe a hairstylist, all the way up to multinational corporations, airlines, things like that. Brian Ardinger: And I love that thought of moving from revenue, maximization to loyalty maximization. And a lot of that probably again, hasn't been really dealt with because of technology. And now we have some tools and data and that, that we didn't have at our fingertips to make some of those leaps that we can now. What do you think is holding people back from taking advantage of some of these technologies and actually going towards a more loyalty maximization model? Cactus Raazi: You know, in my survey of the landscape, I'm not necessarily aware of an impediment to use data in increasingly sophisticated ways. As we all know, there's so many off the shelf products. There are so many courses, everything from sort of how to use Excel on Coursera, all the way to, you know, a PhD in artificial intelligence or something along those lines at the other extreme. I feel that, particularly when it comes to pricing, just to not give you too general and answer, when it comes to pricing, I feel the fundamental question has yet to be asked, are we doing this correctly?And have we really unpacked the assumptions of our approach to be thoughtful around whether this is the right approach and whether we should be using a different set of tools. You know, even industries that are renowned for their ability to differentiate with price something. We could use airlines as an example.And I'm sure at maybe at one point in your career, you were probably some form of a frequent flyer. And I'm sure you would probably agree that while you were perfectly happy to pay different prices, based on various profiles and times of day. That that was not a price for you personally, it was a price meaning that if you were to log into a website, as a loyal customer and I were to log in to the same website you and I were to try and book the same thing, we wouldn't see a difference in price. We would see a difference in price on different days or, or, you know, you name it. There's a variety of obviously supply and demand techniques. And so right there you say, well, that's a sophisticated industry, but it hasn't really moved forward with thinking about the customer, rather than thinking about any customer who's willing to sit in the seat.And that's really at the core of the suggestions in the book is to say that step one, start collecting data about your customers. Obviously in an appropriate fashion and in a transparent fashion, such that you can start to identify behaviors, objectives, or any other elements of the customer, which you can then correlate to the types of behaviors you'd like to see from your customer base.And the book really exists at the level of strategy. And frankly, this conversation exists at the level of strategy. How should we be thinking about some of these questions and are there a new set of tools to be able to answer some really interesting questions around what the right price is, and right is defined as in my case, as maximizing loyalty. And also at the same time, there's this elephant in the room, which is the internet, and mobile commerce, and browser extensions, and couponification. And how are we going to react to the impact of these sort of margin destroying developments? Brian Ardinger: Well, and you've seen examples where there have been companies that have been a little bit more in the forefront of changing algorithms and that, to look at pricing. Uber comes to mind with their surge pricing, and obviously that's trying to maximize supply and demand and things along those lines, but then you have examples when the models go wrong, such that, you know, there's something that occurs the price to scoot up and, and it caused a PR backlash, for example. What are you seeing when it comes to companies and how they react to experimenting in this particular realm and the both the good in the bad around that? Cactus Raazi: Yeah. So, we've seen a lot of experimentation with personalization in what I would refer to as the general marketing realm, such as sending people emails or potentially coupons, identifying products that you may or may not be more or less interested in. And I think that that process is in relatively early stages that traditionally has not really dealt with price with one potential exception. Sometimes you send a premium or a coupon of some sort to say, you know, for you specifically it's 20% off.But I may say in my personal experience, this use specifically thing tends to be extremely wide net. So, everyone who has bought a pair of jeans from us in the last five years gets an email that says, great news, our jeans are 20% off. Although that's a start, I don't think that that's nothing to be particularly proud of.I think, you know, you're implying a second question, which is if you provide a better experience to your better customer, does that imply you're potentially providing a degraded experience to your not better customer? And the answer to that I think almost necessarily should be, yes. At the core of thinking about generating loyalty, almost certainly must be this idea that we have to define who our customer really is or who do we want our customer to be. And we have to ensure that we're treating that group appropriately. And it may come at the expense of people who have not demonstrated any loyalty. When we think about loyalty, we don't necessarily need to define it as someone who has patronized our business for a good or a service, for example, on a very regular basis for a very long time. In fact, I'd argue even a second visit is the beginnings of an attempt at loyalty. This is now a recurring customer is different than a first visit customer. It's easy to go from there to really thinking about, well, maybe we don't define loyalty at second, but at the third visit or at the third purchase of a good or a service, we should start to really think of this customer in a differentiated manner. This person's trying to do business with us, and we should be rewarding them. I think, you know, also it's interesting that you didn't ask, but I'll just bring up. There's been so much time and energy put into recapturing customers whom you have lost. This is generally referred to as churn management in the industry. And so much time and energy into predicting and avoiding churn, which tends to be, you know, a small number is definitely single digit percentage of your customer base in any given time period. If you have numbers greater than that, you actually have a product problem. But I would argue that the amount of time and energy you put into that portion of your customer base could potentially actually be better, spent ensuring the loyalty of your customers who have already demonstrated such loyalty. If this is the 72nd month in a row, you've simply paid your T-Mobile bill. Why are you not receiving some form of an indication that the company values you? And I believe that rather than giving me a coupon that tells me I'll get $10 off at Chipotle, I would rather just receive a discounted bill. Brian Ardinger: Yeah, absolutely. What are your thoughts from the perspective of how do you set pricing in the early days when you don't have those first customers or the early data is, is a little looser or less relevant or available. And specifically like on the startup side versus existing business side. Cactus Raazi: Yeah. You know, it's interesting, you say that startup pricing is very challenging, and it is a topic that many VCs or I would say professional startup investors try to give startups help with. Sort of the heuristic approach, but obviously you need to contemplate what are the costs of various substitutes or alternative paths to solve, whatever problem it is that you're solving. Another perspective would be of course, to think about how much value you're creating for the purchaser of your good or service. What is the value creation and how much of that do you think you can capture, particularly if you're creating an entirely new category, then the pricing question is one that needs to be approached with a degree of sensitivity? One of the things I would say, so I don't know that there's a one size fits all answer, but I'm trying to give you a few parameters of the conversation. I oftentimes get the implication that pricing is a obviously a sensitive or touchy topic. And I like to suggest to startups, the companies or the customers that you choose to do business with initially, you should feel comfortable in your pricing conversations, because if they're not interested in being a, let's just say for lack of a more descriptive word, a good customer. Initially, they might not be your best place to start your commercial journey.Brian Ardinger: Well, and the fact that I think a lot of startups are afraid to experiment early on for fear of losing that first customer when it comes to price and that. But. At the early days, you don't know what you don't know. And I've heard Eric Reese tell a story of going in and working with a company, and he basically just said, double the price, let's run an experiment. And it turns out more people bought it and let's double it again. And it turns out more people bought it. But without that experimentation, your assumptions really can't be played out. Cactus Raazi: So interesting. You asked the question I was asked about a week ago. What is your one piece of advice to companies that are starting out? It was a more of a sales conversation, than specifically sort of startup, but I said, don't be afraid to ask for more in terms of prices. That you know, again as salespeople, we all tend to be a little bit more focused on getting to yes, then perhaps we need to be. And I think there's a lot that you can learn from a customer saying no, so long as they described the know or want to be your partner in getting to S, starting from a place of no is not a problem.It's very difficult to propose a price, have the customer say yes, you can say, well, in that case, maybe I should raise it. Right. That's a very awkward conversation. But to propose a price that you'd be really thrilled with, and that would really put your business on a very sound footing, and to have your potential for first customer push back, and to understand why there's pushback, I think can be obviously very illuminating as to what you should do on a going forward basis. And you'll always have the option of saying, look for a first customer or for the following reasons, or since you've been so transparent, alternatively, as well, you can say, we'll go with your lower price, but let's create some conditions for success that allow us to raise prices, you know, so long as we meet certain conditions. You can kind of create a structure to get you to where you want to be, but in a manner that the customer feels is aligned with their interests. Brian Ardinger: Absolutely. So, in the book you give a lot of great examples. Well, actually good and bad examples of how companies have taken on this topic of price. Talk about Apple and Nordstrom's and the airlines. What are some companies that are doing it better than others? Cactus Raazi: I haven't seen particularly great examples specifically around price, but I have seen some companies do a great job of customer engagement with their digital platforms. I think a pretty good example of that most people would agree with is Starbucks.They have a really user-friendly app. Funny enough when you get this thing to recharge automatically, I've noticed that instead of recharging the app at about a dollar, it recharges it about 20 bucks. And if you multiply that by billions of people, if interest rates weren't at zero, that would be a lucrative business unto itself. That's a side note. They do a great job of encouraging the use of the app. My criticism of course, is rather than giving me stars, which I can eventually cash in for one of your goods. It would be actually an even bigger thrill, if when I zapped my app, I just get a different price, as a basis of my behavior with Starbucks, sort of how I'm engaging your organization.That would be my assertion. So, I think they do a great job of collecting the information. I think they provide an excellent experience. They've had widespread adoption of this platform of theirs, and I believe that the next step would be to try to further increase their customization down to the customer level.Brian Ardinger: You've mentioned some examples in the B2C realm, and that. Are there particular industries that are more ripe for some of these pricing innovations? Cactus Raazi: So long as you define your businesses, one where you encourage repeat customer type activity. If you're in the business of building nuclear reactors, I don't think I have a lot to offer because that's such a, one-off kind of a thing.On the other hand, there are a lot of businesses that have repeat customers in some way, shape or form. And I think those are the businesses for whom this approach is most applicable. And I think in the context of startups, so often we think about SaaS businesses or sort of subscription style businesses.I mean, that's all the rage with many, not all startups, but many startups obviously. And some of these ideas also apply. I believe even when you have a subscription business and you propose that there is a price, it's not necessarily the case that that needs to be offered to all customers at all times under all conditions.So even there, I would think, you know, look, we can always advertise an initial price and then start to really think about our customer base. Why are they using their product? How are they using our product? What can we be doing to improve the channel and increase the loyalty to every one of our customers?It could be anything along the lines of, we came out with Product A. It seems to have been achieving some success. We're now launching Product B with regards to pricing. What could we do on Product B to take advantage of the loyalty we have already generated with Product A? That's the question that very few companies would ask themselves.They would say we come out with a second product and it's priced at X with no differentiation between a customer, who's never done business with them before, and this large base of customers that they have on Product A. Brian Ardinger: Or thinking more broadly about what does price mean? It doesn't, it's not necessarily just the actual price that you pay for that good or service, but it's the services wrapped around that that can augment or change the value creation or the loyalty around it. Cactus Raazi: 100%. That's exactly correct. And I think that the statement you just made is something that so often slips through the cracks in our fundamental approach to coming up with a price. You know, you think a lot about what your input costs may have been or various other elements, and you forget to think about well if a customer has done a lot of business with us in the past, shouldn't we treat them differently. And the other thing I would say by the way as part and parcel of this conversation is also the broader customer experience. I argue that price is a really important sort of a fulcrum of the customer experience. But in today's day and age, the scarcity is all the rage and limited additions and one-offs, and all of these things are also, you know, very much becoming fashionable. So, it's not always the case that you need to necessarily discount. We're really saying price to the customer, but it may be something along the lines of, we have a limited-edition item and you're getting access to it, even though it's actually at a premium.Brian Ardinger: So, what else in the book have we maybe not covered that you want to make sure our audience understands they can get some value out of it. Cactus Raazi: We've covered a lot of the approaches. We haven't spent a lot of time on the threats, and we talk a little bit about in the book about not only is e-commerce sort of gravitating towards generally towards price displayed user interfaces.And of course, with mobile, that starts to be happening in real time, even in the brick-and-mortar environment. But really, we talk also about, it's not likely that we'll be doing traditional website based commerce, forever voice assistance, and other further automation is creeping slowly but surely into our lives.And if you think about that, it becomes even scarier because it's not likely that these paradigms with the voice assistance and with other additional levels of automation would offer anything other than the lowest price. Why would your voice assistant tell you that the same good are services available at three different prices?Right. That's sort of annoying. And you'd say, just give me the cheapest one, right? That we all gravitate to that. So, we mentioned that only because even if you feel that you can handle the current levels of competition and price transparency that are being generated by the internet and by the browser extensions, and by the coupon crawlers and all the things that already exist. It's important to recognize that there are additional levels of threat that are only going to further erode your pricing power, unless you're starting to price to the customer, which is no longer widely available. We are seeing very early signs of such a thing, such as you go to a website and you need to input your email address prior to being allowed access to the experience. So, we're seeing early signs and I think that thinking a lot about the threats of technology and the deflationary impact of technologies is another important part of what we bring up in the book Brian Ardinger: The last topic I want to talk about is COVID-19 and how that may have affected and made the changing landscape of pricing and that.  What kind of examples are things have you seen from this acceleration of this disrupted world?Cactus Raazi: It's funny, I'm glad you used the word acceleration because that's exactly the word that I think is the appropriate word. They call it the great accelerant and I've seen all of that. So yeah. What we've seen, I'm sure as you've seen is we've seen significant changes in behavior. And I think that we've seen as so much more of our activity has gone from analog to digital, we've seen a lot more opportunities to capture information about with whom we're doing business and various elements of our customer base and start to use those things. I have not necessarily seen tangible impact of such, but clearly, most companies at this point have gotten the wakeup call that the shift to electronic commerce, which was always obviously underway, has now only accelerated.And I think what you're going to start to see in my humble opinion Is providers of platforms such as Shopify or big commerce, really start to think about how can we give our users additional tools to help them do more business and do better business with their customers. And I think so between the CRMs and the sort of e-commerce platforms, I think we will likely see a fair amount of innovation.Brian Ardinger: Well, Cactus, thank you very much for coming on Inside Outside Innovation, to tell us a little bit more about this. It's a fascinating topic. And like I said, so important and often overlooked topic when it comes to innovation and that. If people want to find out more about yourself or the book, what's the best way to do that?Cactus Raazi: Probably LinkedIn I'm on LinkedIn Cactus, like the plant, Razi is R A A Z I.  Easy to find me and I love to hear from people and I'm happy to be helpful. I'm not in the business of consulting. I have no agenda. I'm just trying to be helpful for its own sake. Brian Ardinger: Excellent. Well, we appreciate you sharing your knowledge here today, and thanks very much for coming on the show. Look forward to continuing the conversation as the world evolves. Cactus Raazi: Absolute pleasure. Good luck.Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. Until next time, go out and innovate.FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER & TOOLSGet the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HEREFor more innovations resources, check out IO's Innovation Article Database, Innovation Tools Database, Innovation Book Database, and Innovation Video Database.

Cactus is a risk-taking leader focused on fixed income automation. He is the author of the B2B data analytics book "Price: Maximizing Customer Loyalty Through Personalized Pricing." Currently, Cactus is co-managing an automated bond market making business at Exos after founding, and funding a FinTech startup, Elefant. Cactus has more than 35 years of experience in sales, of which 22 years are in fixed income for companies like Goldman Sachs. He has a graduate degree in business analytics from NYU, and lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah.Learn more about the Strategic Financial Leadership podcast: https://www.strategicfinancialleadership.com/podcast

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractHosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Cactus Raazi is the founder and former CEO of Elefant Inc., now a part of Exos Financial, which focused on building smarter marketplaces through AI-powered pricing. Cactus led Elefant Inc. to success working with a brilliant team of engineers and marketplace experts focused on improving the pricing, transparency, and efficiency of the bond market. In more than thirty years in sales, Cactus has developed an acute sense of how price affects the commercial transaction (and how we get it wrong). He has a graduate degree in business analytics from NYU, and lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah. Show Notes1:50 - Where does pricing go bad?10:00 – What pricing models work the best?17:00 – How does goto market play into pricing?18:53 – Personalized marketing 21:33 – If someone got a better price22:29 – Good customer vs bad customer Cactus Raazi - LinkedInCactus Raazi’s book Price Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter.  

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractHosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Cactus Raazi is the founder and former CEO of Elefant Inc., now a part of Exos Financial, which focused on building smarter marketplaces through AI-powered pricing. Cactus led Elefant Inc. to success working with a brilliant team of engineers and marketplace experts focused on improving the pricing, transparency, and efficiency of the bond market. In more than thirty years in sales, Cactus has developed an acute sense of how price affects the commercial transaction (and how we get it wrong). He has a graduate degree in business analytics from NYU, and lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah. Show Notes1:50 - Where does pricing go bad?10:00 – What pricing models work the best?17:00 – How does goto market play into pricing?18:53 – Personalized marketing 21:33 – If someone got a better price22:29 – Good customer vs bad customer Cactus Raazi - LinkedInCactus Raazi’s book Price Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Brown - LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter.  

The One Take Show is honored to host Mr. Pramod Pathak. Mr. Pathak is an actor and director who is best known for appearing in the Bollywood Films Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), Raees (2017), and Raazi (2019). In 2018, he became a part of the hit show Mirzapur as the politician J.P. Yadav. He plays Tripurari in Rakhtanchal.

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractHosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Cactus Raazi is the founder and former CEO of Elefant Inc., now a part of Exos Financial, which focused on building smarter marketplaces through AI-powered pricing. Cactus led Elefant Inc. to success working with a brilliant team of engineers and marketplace experts focused on improving the pricing, transparency, and efficiency of the bond market. In more than thirty years in sales, Cactus has developed an acute sense of how price affects the commercial transaction (and how we get it wrong). He has a graduate degree in business analytics from NYU, and lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah. Show Notes5:45 – How do you make the connection and go start to Price?9:20 – What should I be doing differently16:25 – Topic of price17:38  - How do you define price?19:53 – How are prices set today?26:27 – How do you track customers?27:39 – Personalized pricingCactus Raazi - LinkedInCactus Raazi’s book Price Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Mayne- LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. 

Want to be featured as a guest on Making Data Simple? Reach out to us at [almartintalksdata@gmail.com] and tell us why you should be next. AbstractHosted by Al Martin, VP, IBM Expert Services Delivery, Making Data Simple provides the latest thinking on big data, A.I., and the implications for the enterprise from a range of experts.This week on Making Data Simple, we have Cactus Raazi is the founder and former CEO of Elefant Inc., now a part of Exos Financial, which focused on building smarter marketplaces through AI-powered pricing. Cactus led Elefant Inc. to success working with a brilliant team of engineers and marketplace experts focused on improving the pricing, transparency, and efficiency of the bond market. In more than thirty years in sales, Cactus has developed an acute sense of how price affects the commercial transaction (and how we get it wrong). He has a graduate degree in business analytics from NYU, and lives with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah. Show Notes5:45 – How do you make the connection and go start to Price?9:20 – What should I be doing differently16:25 – Topic of price17:38  - How do you define price?19:53 – How are prices set today?26:27 – How do you track customers?27:39 – Personalized pricingCactus Raazi - LinkedInCactus Raazi’s book Price Connect with the TeamProducer Kate Mayne- LinkedIn. Producer Steve Templeton - LinkedIn. Host Al Martin - LinkedIn and Twitter. 

Keeping quality customers is the aim of nearly every healthy business. Cactus Raazi challenges the typical methods of doing this and suggests alternative data-focused pricing strategies in order for businesses to survive in the future. 

Why not use personalized pricing to boost customer loyalty? In this Expert Insight Interview, we welcome Cactus Raazi, author of Price: Maximizing Customer Loyalty Through Personalized Pricing.

Cactus Raazi is a former Managing Director at Goldman Sachs who has been a successful entrepreneur in credit trading. He is also the author of the recently published book Price: Maximizing Customer Loyalty Through Personalized Pricing.  In today’s episode, Cactus shares his perspective on personalized pricing - and how he got his distinctive first name. Key points include: 06:05: Researching his book 08:30: Examples of personalized pricing 13:03: The value of personalized pricing 17:41: Ideal businesses for personalized pricing 20:53: How to communicate personalized pricing to the consumer 24:31: Using  algorithms to differentiate the customer base You can contact Cactus through LinkedIn and order his book, Price: Maximizing Customer Loyalty Through Personalized Pricing, on Amazon. Unleashed is produced by Umbrex, which has a mission of connecting independent management consultants with one another, creating opportunities for members to meet, build relationships, and share lessons learned. Learn more at: www.umbrex.com

If you’re anything like me, price probably isn’t something you think too much about, beyond maybe using Honey at checkout to see if there’s a little extra bargain to be had. Cactus Raazi, ... The post Price: Cactus Raazi appeared first on Author Hour.

In this special episode, I've laid out a brief account of one of Indians superhero, Sehmat Khan. The movie - Raazi - is another sneak peek into her life and courage. For me and millions, Sehmat will always remain etched on our hearts. And in Indian history.

In this episode, we speak to writer/director Meghna Gulzar, best known for her films Talvar, Raazi and Chhapaak. She speaks to us about her upbringing, her journey into the movies, her work in the world of documentaries and music videos and her unconventional feature film choices.

Hello Listeners! Welcome back! We are back after a small break. And since you have been patient with us, We have something special for you. This week, we collaborate with our fellow podcasters, Aditya and Srinivas from "In the End" Podcast and discuss Khadgam (2002), starring Srikanth, Prakash Raj, Ravi Teja, Sangeetha, Kim Sharma, Brahmaji, Uttej and others. We pick apart the story, acting, music and lyrics, all in a bigger context -Patriotism in Telugu Cinema. Kindly note that all opinions are personal and not to hurt anyone. This weeks recommendations - As we discussed Khadgam, a movie talking about patriotism, we recommend - Bharateeyudu, Rang De Basanti, Raazi, Parmanu, Aparichitudu and Lakshya. Let us know what your favourite patriotic movie is and why in the comments. Introduction (1:40) First Impressions (2:25) Patriotism in the movie (8:15) What is a patriotic film (17:00) Performances (26:00) Music (28:12) Nitpicks (30:20) Ratings (32:38) Patriotic Movie Recos (36:00) Credits: The theme of our podcast is titled "Pure Adrenaline" by Eddy. You can download the theme song here (http://freemusicarchive.org/musiceddy/2_Damn_Loud/Pure_Adrenaline_mastered-with-CloudBounce) or contact the artist for corporate use. The album art for the podcast was done by our super talented Ameya. We hope you are all hunkered down and staying safe in these trying times. We feel fortunate to continue recording and releasing pods for all of you to enjoy. Thank you for your continued loyalty.

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In this Episode of Moviewallas we bring you reviews of the new Netflix releases: And discussion of: 00:08:02: Da 5 Bloods 00:23:15: 8.46 – Dave Chappelle 00:32:08: Just Mercy 00:39:42: Lenox Hill 00:43:41: Mudbound 00:47:00: Raazi 00:50:14: The Help – Join the Facebook community: facebook.com/moviewallas – Follow us on Twitter: @moviewallas – Follow us on Instagram: @moviewallas

We dive into all things Bollywood and how it has changed over time. What are the current problems with Bollywood? Has it gotten too scandalous? How does Bollywood define the immigrant experience and how does it compare to Hollywood? And YES: there are MULTIPLE clips from MULTIPLE Bollywood scenes featured in this episode because we couldn’t resist (including Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and more!). Sofia and Prerak also answer your questions like: how can we prevent Bollywood movies from giving us an unrealistic expectation from life? If you want to introduce your non-desi friends to bollywood, what movies should you watch? What are the best bollywood movies of all time? Relevant Memes and Bollywood Scenes: NOTE: We've hyperlinked the memes referenced in the show below, but they are usually only "click-able" when you listen to the podcast via Apple podcasts on your phone. 15:00 – [Bollywood MOVIE Reference] - We use a clip from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. TAKE A CHILL PILL ;) 16:47 [Bollywood MOVIE Reference] – We use a clip from Main Hoon Naa cause who doesn’t love the title track from that movie ;). This clip helps us explain the unique, yet insanely similar plotlines of bollywood movies. 19:50 [Bollywood MOVIE Reference] – We use a clip from Kal Ho Na Ho to demonstrate the aspect of most Bollywood movies having an underlying “moral” theme behind them. Low key cried when we listen to the scene. Prerak's Top 5 Bollywood Movies: 5) Hera Pheri, 4) Dhoom, 3) 3 Idiots, 2) Kal Ho Na Ho, 1) Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham Sofia's Top 5 Bollywood Movies: 5) Jodha Akbar, 4) Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, 3) Gully Boy, 2) Raazi, 1) Lagaan

Vicky Kaushal and Yami Gautam, the stars of Uri: The Surgical Strike, get candid with RJ Stutee on Hindustan Times’ celebrity talk show Aur Batao. Vicky Kaushal talks about whether he is single or not and what women like in him. Yami Gautam reveals her relationship status and tells us if she has ever been dumped. Vicky Kaushal explains what role does patriotism play while playing an India soldier in Uri: The Surgical Strike and playing a Pakistani soldier in Raazi.

As leading actresses such as Kangana Ranaut and Swara Bhaskar take up the mantle of feminism, change is slowly coming to B-town. However, the male dominated Bollywood industry has a lot of way to go before an actress can expect the same treatment as one of the Khans. The recent case of Tanushree Dutta also highlights that the #metoo movement in Bollywood is just an empty scream, with no real ramifications for the accused.

A short session answering questions about accepting the will of Allah, the Divine Decree called, "Qad'r" or "Taqdeer". --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/palwasha-bibi/message

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After Filmfare Alia Bhatt received the Best Actor (Female) category at Reel Movie Awards 2019 for Raazi. The actress walked the red carpet in Red Sabyasachi Mukherji Saree. Check out her appearance right here.

This week's Awful and Awesome episode with Rajyasree is loaded with entertainment and a little bit of gossip. Abhinandan and Rajyasree talk about Raazi, Mother's Day ads, and Rajyasree talks to Abhinandan about the celebrity wedding and engagement that flooded everyone's social media feed, and lots more.The podcast starts with Abhinandan interviewing Meghna Gulzar, where she talks about her new film as a Director and Writer, Raazi. On being asked about the kind of positive reviews the film is getting and does it matter to her, Meghna says: "They will never not matter because you're creating something to put out there for the people to opine on. That opinion will always be relevant and important. So yes, it is overwhelming because there's been complete approval across the board barring one or two here and there. The numbers, the way the film is performing at the theatre, are still really growing so there's a word of mouth. There's an acceptance from the people. Then you come across messages which people are sending and forwarding, which say we were watching it in this theatre, the audience stood up and clapped at the end. That is my biggest payoff."Then she goes on to talk about her first film Filhaal, problems during the shoot of Raazi, nepotism and more.Abhinandan and Rajyasree then discuss the film that stars Alia Bhatt. While Rajyasree says “I didn't think Alia acted well”, she also adds, “All the actors were very well cast… I just find it really nice that a mother and daughter played a mother and daughter on celluloid also”.Abhinandan, in agreement with Rajyasree, says, “All the reviews had built it up so much for me” and adds that “I really liked its politics… it kept me hooked throughout”. Rajyasree shares trivia about Hansal Mehta's films Shahid and Omerta before moving on to the trailer of The Spy Who Dumped Me. Abhinandan comments on it, saying “very ordinary trailer… montage of funny moments”. However, he acknowledges that the movie has a “spectacular cast”, the kind that “will pull you in the cinema”.The Susanna Fogel movie starring Mila Kunis, Justin Theroux and Hasan Minhaj among others will definitely be “very funny”, according to Rajyasree.Chef Vikas Khanna makes his directorial debut with the film The Last Colour, starring Nina Gupta. Rajyasree says “the plot revolves around the Supreme Court order against the age-old tradition of not allowing widows in Vrindavan to play Holi”, which was apparently not obvious in the trailer. She feels the trailer was more of an ad for “Exotic India” and the movie is “highly avoidable”. Abhinandan says the “film is going to be below average”.Rajyasree talks about the “weddings we virtually attended” - of Sonam Kapoor with Anand Ahuja and the engagement of Isha Ambani to the “Piramal boy”. Rajyasree talks about the “romantic” engagement in the temple and Abhinandan talks about how these weddings and engagements went viral on social media.“Every third thing on that day was ‘watch the viral video of Nita Ambani dancing',” he says. Mother's Day celebrations catch Rajyasree and Abhinandan's attention, with ads released by Mother Dairy and Kotak Silk. Rajyasree feels the first ad has a “nice concept” focusing on not just the mother, but “a galaxy of women that bring you up”. Abhinandan, however, calls it “too goody, goody nice acting”.Rajyasree confirms “they are very loving, these mothers I have to say… nobody has a natural reaction”. Abhinandan adds “there should be some reality to these ads”.The Google Assistant ad is the last on the agenda. Rajyasree talks about what is happening and “technology which makes you think you're talking to a human” and how this feature may be the “beginning of the end of humanity”. Abhinandan agrees and says, “artificial intelligence has gone to a different level”. Lastly, they discuss RJ Naved's latest prank and what's funny and what's not funny with such pranks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We look back at the most notable Bollywood films of 2018! Show Notes: * We have new artwork design by [Becca Dalke](http://dalkedesigns.ca/)! * [Kaalakaandi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaalakaandi) ([our episode on Delhi Belly](https://audioboom.com/posts/6697239-pushing-the-envelope-being-cyrus-and-delhi-belly-with-suchin-mehrotra)) * [Mukkabaaz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukkabaaz) * [Padmaavat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmaavat) ([our episode on Padmaavat](https://audioboom.com/posts/6644092-supplemental-episode-4-on-my-way-to-steal-your-girl-or-padmaavat-at-last)) * [Pad Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pad_Man_(film)) * [Love Per Square Foot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_per_Square_Foot) * [Aiyaary](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiyaary) * [Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonu_Ke_Titu_Ki_Sweety) * [Welcome to New York](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_New_York_(2018_film)) * [Pari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pari_(2018_Indian_film)) ([our episode on Pari](https://audioboom.com/posts/6918480-anushka-sharma-s-clean-slate-nh10-phillauri-and-pari)) * [Raid](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raid_(2018_film)) * [Hichki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hichki) * [Baaghi 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baaghi_2) ([our episode on Baaghi 1](https://audioboom.com/posts/6200870-one-man-army-corps-martial-arts-films-with-kathy-gibson)) * [Blackmail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackmail_(2018_film)) * [October](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_(2018_film)) * [Beyond The Clouds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Clouds_(2017_film)) * [102 Not Out](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/102_Not_Out) * [Raazi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raazi) * [Parmanu: The Story Of Pokhran](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmanu:_The_Story_of_Pokhran) * [Veere Di Wedding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veere_Di_Wedding) ([our episode on VDW](https://audioboom.com/posts/6899573-ladies-be-watching-ladies-vs-ricky-bahl-and-veere-di-wedding-with-juliet-franklin)) * [Bhavesh Joshi Superhero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhavesh_Joshi_Superhero) ([our episode on Sacred Games](https://audioboom.com/posts/6939671-supplemental-episode-6-the-sacred-games-are-afoot)) * [Race 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_3) ([our episode on the Race films](https://audioboom.com/posts/5142181-the-race-is-on-with-danny-bowes)) (INTERVAL (“[DhayaanChand](https://youtu.be/cCcRO58hrgE)” from Manmarziyaan) * [Sanju](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanju) ([our episode on Sanju](https://audioboom.com/posts/6952008-hugs-not-drugs-munna-bhai-m-b-b-s-and-sanju)) * [Soorma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soorma_(film)) * [Dhadak](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhadak) * [Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saheb,_Biwi_Aur_Gangster_3) * [Fanney Khan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanney_Khan) * [Mulk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulk_(film)) * [Karwaan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karwaan) * [Gold](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_(2018_film)) * [Satyameva Jayate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyameva_Jayate_(2018_film)) * [Stree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stree_(2018_film)) * [Manmarziyaan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmarziyaan) ([Poonam & Priyanka Dance](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8fD64z8lUxNqn-jNU1oc7Q), the dancing twins) * [Batti Gul Meter Chalu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batti_Gul_Meter_Chalu) * [Sui Dhaaga](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_Dhaaga) * [Pataakha](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pataakha) * [Loveyatri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveyatri) * [Andhadhun](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhadhun) ([our episode on Sriram Raghavan](https://audioboom.com/posts/7103105-sriram-raghavan-pulp-auteur-johnny-gaddaar-and-agent-vinod)) * [Namaste England](https://en.wikiped...

Why Cheat India, the makers tell us, is a hybrid of fact and fiction. This blend – maybe we should call it faction – seems to have become Bollywood's favourite genre. Think of Uri, Padman, Sanju, Raazi, Raid and so many others. These films want both – the authenticity and heft of fact with the dramatic possibilities of fiction. It's tough to do and many directors topple. In Why Cheat India, Soumik Sen manages to stay standing for some time. Subtlety is not his strength but in his own, heavy-handed way, Soumik creates a reasonably engaging first hour. Ultimately however, he can't resist the lure of full-blown, blaring background music, suspense via split screens and giving his star Emraan Hashmi a speech from the pulpit about how the system forces him to be corrupt.

Why Cheat India, the makers tell us, is a hybrid of fact and fiction. This blend – maybe we should call it faction – seems to have become Bollywood’s favourite genre. Think of Uri, Padman, Sanju, Raazi, Raid and so many others. These films want both – the authenticity and heft of fact with the dramatic possibilities of fiction. It’s tough to do and many directors topple. In Why Cheat India, Soumik Sen manages to stay standing for some time. Subtlety is not his strength but in his own, heavy-handed way, Soumik creates a reasonably engaging first hour. Ultimately however, he can’t resist the lure of full-blown, blaring background music, suspense via split screens and giving his star Emraan Hashmi a speech from the pulpit about how the system forces him to be corrupt.

(Aurat Course)Allah Ki Qaza O Qader Pr Raazi Rhti Hy( 27 - 1-14 ) by Nighat Hashmi

Hear my reviews on Raazi, Veeray di Wedding, and Lust Stories!

Episode 14: Starring Alia Bhatt, Raazi shines a spotlight on the true story of an unlikely female spy.

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Discussing the new Bollywood 1970s spy-thriller directed by Meghna Gulzar and based on Harinder Sikka's novel "Calling Sehmat"

This week’s Awful and Awesome episode with Rajyasree is loaded with entertainment and a little bit of gossip. Abhinandan and Rajyasree talk about Raazi, Mother’s Day ads, and Rajyasree talks to Abhinandan about the celebrity wedding and engagement that flooded everyone’s social media feed, and lots more.The podcast starts with Abhinandan interviewing Meghna Gulzar, where she talks about her new film as a Director and Writer, Raazi. On being asked about the kind of positive reviews the film is getting and does it matter to her, Meghna says: "They will never not matter because you’re creating something to put out there for the people to opine on. That opinion will always be relevant and important. So yes, it is overwhelming because there’s been complete approval across the board barring one or two here and there. The numbers, the way the film is performing at the theatre, are still really growing so there’s a word of mouth. There’s an acceptance from the people. Then you come across messages which people are sending and forwarding, which say we were watching it in this theatre, the audience stood up and clapped at the end. That is my biggest payoff."Then she goes on to talk about her first film Filhaal, problems during the shoot of Raazi, nepotism and more.Abhinandan and Rajyasree then discuss the film that stars Alia Bhatt. While Rajyasree says “I didn’t think Alia acted well”, she also adds, “All the actors were very well cast… I just find it really nice that a mother and daughter played a mother and daughter on celluloid also”.Abhinandan, in agreement with Rajyasree, says, “All the reviews had built it up so much for me” and adds that “I really liked its politics… it kept me hooked throughout”. Rajyasree shares trivia about Hansal Mehta’s films Shahid and Omerta before moving on to the trailer of The Spy Who Dumped Me. Abhinandan comments on it, saying “very ordinary trailer… montage of funny moments”. However, he acknowledges that the movie has a “spectacular cast”, the kind that “will pull you in the cinema”.The Susanna Fogel movie starring Mila Kunis, Justin Theroux and Hasan Minhaj among others will definitely be “very funny”, according to Rajyasree.Chef Vikas Khanna makes his directorial debut with the film The Last Colour, starring Nina Gupta. Rajyasree says “the plot revolves around the Supreme Court order against the age-old tradition of not allowing widows in Vrindavan to play Holi”, which was apparently not obvious in the trailer. She feels the trailer was more of an ad for “Exotic India” and the movie is “highly avoidable”. Abhinandan says the “film is going to be below average”.Rajyasree talks about the “weddings we virtually attended” - of Sonam Kapoor with Anand Ahuja and the engagement of Isha Ambani to the “Piramal boy”. Rajyasree talks about the “romantic” engagement in the temple and Abhinandan talks about how these weddings and engagements went viral on social media.“Every third thing on that day was ‘watch the viral video of Nita Ambani dancing’,” he says. Mother’s Day celebrations catch Rajyasree and Abhinandan’s attention, with ads released by Mother Dairy and Kotak Silk. Rajyasree feels the first ad has a “nice concept” focusing on not just the mother, but “a galaxy of women that bring you up”. Abhinandan, however, calls it “too goody, goody nice acting”.Rajyasree confirms “they are very loving, these mothers I have to say… nobody has a natural reaction”. Abhinandan adds “there should be some reality to these ads”.The Google Assistant ad is the last on the agenda. Rajyasree talks about what is happening and “technology which makes you think you’re talking to a human” and how this feature may be the “beginning of the end of humanity”. Abhinandan agrees and says, “artificial intelligence has gone to a different level”. Lastly, they discuss RJ Naved’s latest prank and what's funny and what's not funny with such pranks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Raazi's director Meghna Gulzar shares the challenges she faced during her latest shoot. Gulzar also talks about Kashmir, nepotism in the film industry and more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode, host Shah Shahid is joined by Melanie Moviemavengal from the Pardesi YouTube channel to discuss the latest Bollywood news & trailers from upcoming Indian movies in May 2018. SHOW NOTES: 1. Who is Melanie & what is Pardesi? 2. News 3. Trailers 4. Contact Info 5. Where To Listen NEWS Priyanka Chopra’s first Bollywood movie since Bajirao Mastani, is Salman Khan’s Bharat. [ https://goo.gl/grsG7P ] Karan Johar announces his magnum opus, Kalank, starring a massive ensemble cast. [ https://goo.gl/1f6L6W ] TRAILERS Sanju is an upcoming Bollywood biopic starring Ranbir Kapoor. [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6452574/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] Sanju trailer: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRr1qiJRsXk ] Veere Di Wedding is an ensemble cast telling an all women story [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5842616/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] The amazing Veere Di Wedding trailer: [ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=veerey+di+wedding+trailer ] Ranam is a South Indian movie in Detroit [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6615894/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] Check out the Ranam teasers: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGJdb7azKLM ] 102 Not Out is Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor reuniting after decades. [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6580564/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] The trailer for 102 Not Out: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrks9Zu0f1w ] Naa Peru Surya Na Illu India looks like a tight action movie. [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7794524/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] The trailer can be found here: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnfoA2fF6GY ] Raazi is upcoming spy thriller from Meghna Gulzar, starring Alia Bhatt. [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7098658/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] The Raazi trailer: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjMSttRJrhA ] Mahanati is a Telugu bio pic about a famous South Indian actress. [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7465992/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] The Mahanati teaser: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrnYMmWBuV4 ] High Jack is a Bollywood stoner comedy, in a plane! [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8175968/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] The Trailer for High Jack: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IYNmenNBoc ] Parmanu is based on real life events. [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6826438/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] The Parmanu teaser is here: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_aLW2GNao4 ] Bhavesh Joshi Superhero looks like Bollywood’s first vigilante hero movie: [ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6129302/?ref_=nv_sr_1 ] The Bhavesh Joshi Superhero trailer can be seen here: [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD-p1rMjJT0 ] CONTACT INFO: Melanie’s YouTube Channel: Pardesi [ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=UCYM-MuVmVwTDAe3uuFkBgZA ] Follow Melanie’s YT channel on Twitter: @PardesiYT [ https://twitter.com/PardesiYT ] Follow Melanie on Twitter: @MovieMavengal [ https://twitter.com/moviemavengal ] Follow the Podcast on Twitter: [@splitscreen_pod](https://twitter.com/splitscreen_pod) Follow Shah Shahid on Twitter: @theshahshahid [ https://twitter.com/theshahshahid ] Like Us On Facebook: Blank Page Beatdown [ https://www.facebook.com/blankpagebeatdown/ ] Want to be a guest on the show? Or for any other inquiries e-mail Shah: shah@blankpagebeatdown.com WHERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW: Apple Podcasts: [ https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/split-screen-podcast/id1056295660?mt=2&at=1001lbaw ] Google Play Music:[ https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/I2vyhoadr45j64iaswnp4mqmeiu ] #Bharat #SalmanKhan #PriyankaChopra #Kalank #KaranJohar #VarunDhawan #AdityaRoyKapur #SanjayDutt #AliaBhatt #SonakshiSinha #Madhuri Dixit #Ranam #Prithviraj #102NotOut #AmitabhBachchan #Rishi Kapoor #NaPeruSuryaNaIlluIndia #AlluArjun #Raazi #MeghnaGulzar #AliaBhatt #VickyKaushal #Mahanati #HighJack #Parmanu #JohnAbraham #BhaveshJoshiSuperhero #Hardshwardhan #Sanju #SanjayDutt #RanbirKapoor #RajkumarHirani #VeereDiWedding #KareenaKapoorKhan #SonamKapoor #SwaraBhaskar #ShikhaTalsania

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