When we shot for THE PITCH, I had never met nor heard of Boman Irani.
However, in the 12 hours that passed compressed in a room with and 2 other Jury members, I learnt some valuable lessons that day:
Boman told us that he was a potato chip shopkeeper in Tardeo for most of his young adult life, and movies happened later. This means that fortune and fame comes at any time – usually later than sooner.
There was so much humility in the entire shoot! The contestants, the jury members and the crew – it was amazing. Magic happens when humble people assemble
Young entrepreneurs in India have so much passion and confidence! One of the first few contestants was a young lady who spoke so openly and candidly about her invention of underwear for women that prevented staining during menstrual cyles. I was stunned at her resolve to look at 4 men of the Jury and explain in detail what a woman faces when she has here menstrual cycle and how she had a business plan to circumvent it.
It was so interesting to see how folks took bullets of criticisms shot at them! I said very rude things and it was amazing how polite people were.
UTV did an amazing job of keeping the 12 hours perfectly managed. We started late, but the shoot was flawless.
In the end, I was drunk – on entrepreneurship.
POST SHOOT JURY SHOOT – COURTESY UTV
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ADDED BY ASHA: Kaizad’s story of his memories of Boman Irani’s family’s Wafer Shop!
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Akshay 'Backpacker' Chhugani
That day was the biggest Motivation of my life to carry forward my dream project 🙂
Aditya Singh
When is it going to telecast ????
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
its been on the channel.
best is to catch it on youtube – some excellent content in there…
Aditya Singh said:
Aditya Singh
which episode was this ??
Alok Rodinhood Kejriwal
the elimination rounds 1
Aditya Singh said:
Abhik Prasad
hmmm..i thought Boman Irani was a famous photographer before he became a movie star 🙂
Neel Shah
i was a part of it and the experience was amazing… i got a comment from #TheRodinhood himself that “we have an entrepreneur in the making”… that was encouraging… hope to make it BIG someday…
Neel Shah
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