WishTel, the makers of low-cost and highly effective tablets IRA and IRA Thing 2 have partnered with Shemaroo Entertainment to release the World's first management film based on Chanakya's teachings - 'Chanakya Speaks - The Seven Pillars for Business Success' on WishTel's Tablet TV series, a first-of-its-kind initiative by the company. The corporate film meant for business professionals, corporate decision makers, businessmen, entrepreneurs, management students and trainees will be available for users of Wish Tel's IRA ICON Tablets.
Announcing the partnership with Shemaroo Entertainment, Mr.Milind Shah, CEO, WishTel said: "We are very happy to partner with Shemaroo for a first-of-its-kind initiative, a premier of the corporate movie Chanakya Speaks on our Tablet - IRA ICON series. With this initiative we aim to offer our consumers, mainly from the corporates and business management students, an opportunity to discover Chanakya's teaching, sharpen their leadership qualities and motivate themselves to be a successful business leader of tomorrow".
According to Mr. Hiren Gada, Director, Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd., "We at Shemaroo Entertainment always make an effort to bring in innovation and variety for our audience. Keeping in line with the same, we release "Chanakya Speaks - The Seven Pillars for Business Success' that will help one to inculcate Chanaky's ways of thinking in a business scenario. With our partnership with WishTel we are sure to reach out to a wider corporate, business and student's audience."
Produced by Shemaroo Entertainment Ltd, the film features insights from Business stalwarts including Mr. Narayana Murthy (Chairman Emeritus, Infosys Ltd.); Dr. Santrupt Misra (Director-Group HR, CEO-Carbon Black Business, Aditya Birla Group); Vinita Bali (Managing Director, Britannia Industries Ltd.); Subroto Bagchi (Chairman, MindTree Ltd.); Raamdeo Agrawal (Joint Managing Director, Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.) and D. Sivanandhan (Director General of Police (Retd.), Maharashtra).
'Chanakya Speaks - The Seven Pillars for Business Success' is an attempt to simplify the teachings of Chanakya from the Arthashastra, and make them relevant for today's aspiring leaders in business and life. One of the 'Construct for Governance' in the book Kautilya's Arthashastra is called 'The Saptangas' - meaning "The Seven Pillars for a Successful Kingdom". For the first time in History, the Seven Pillars will be unveiled to the world through an entertaining yet powerfully educating Film for Business success.
Directed by Vasudevan Srinivasan, The story revolves around the quest of a young business executive trying to rediscover Chanakya's Teachings. Mentored by his quirky "boss"' he discovers Chanakya's Seven Pillars Construct (Model) and sets upon a journey to apply the learnings' for the growth of his organization and betterment of his own life.
WishTel also offers its user's Audio book series called Corporate Chanakya. In the audio series the author simplifies the age-old formula of success for leaders of the corporate world through 'Successful Management the Chanakya Way'. Divided into a series of 3 audio books:
1. Corporate Chanakya - Leadership: It has 70 chapters which talk about Power, Qualities of Leader, Competition, People & What a leader should not do.
2. Corporate Chanakya - Management: It has 70 chapters which focus on Managing Employees, Finance, Team Work and Strategy.
3. Corporate Chanakya - Training: It has 35 chapters which talk about Employee Training, Training to Higher Authorities, Organization & Advice.
The film is also available at all major retail outlets like Crossword, Landmark and Reliance Timeout among others on Shemaroo DVD's for Rs.499/-. The production of the film is inspired from the bestselling book 'Corporate Chanakya' authored by Mr. Radhakrishnan Pillai.