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THE EXPOSURE and EXPERIENCE of SAMIDHA-KHALID

Khalid of Samidha Khalid duo,Who has just finished his assignment as Consultant with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) at their Maker Chambers Head Quarters, has got a multi dimentional exposure with News,Corporate,Films,TV,Digital and the world of Music.He belongs to those experienced media professionals who have evolved their professional capabilities with the changing dimensions of media in last 20 years. His multi-diversity has brought his professional capabilities up to that level from where he is able to look at media as a whole from a top angle view. Khalid's abilities and expertise lie from hard core news stories of Zee News to the fictitious stories of Heena ,from creating news programmes for news channels to advise news channels for programmes and ground initiatives, from directing stage plays to creative directing the TV shows,from creating music and songs for a film to creating Digital Content products,from creative consulting to Dubai, Pakistan and Indonasia based establishments to launching and running the media establishments. He started his career with Zee TV as a Trainee with its Current Affairs Division in Delhi for landmark shows “INSIGHT” and "AAP KI ADALAT".While working with Uday Shankar (Present CEO of Star India),Umesh Upadhyay (Present President of Network 18 News and Media Director at Reliance),Sudhir Choudhary (Present CEO of Zee News),Khalid  became a part of the pioneering step of launching Zee News on Zee TV in 1994 as a Reporter and later came to Mumbai to serve as Zee TV's first Bureau Chief for Western India under the leadership of Rajat Sharma,Vijay Jindal and Subhash Chandra. Khalid was one of the senior most members of Zee News team and remained with Zee from 1994 to 1997. Khalid was the person responsible for launching Mumbai's first ever news bulletins “IN TIME” on Hinduja Group's local cable network "IN MUMBAI" where more than hundred and fifty people were reporting to him as News Editor and he carried the designation of General Manager then.He expanded Hindi News into Gujrati ,Marathi,English,Business Editions and started the morning telecast.Under the direct supervision of the board of directors of Hinduja Group ,He was responsible for Editoarial and Operations both. He has maintained his connectivity in the news world all over the country and channels have taken his advice from time to time.He worked with Alok Verma (Ex COO-Star TV’s New Media,Convergence and Internet Strategy)for creating Mumbai Aaj Tak which was not launched.He advised the CEO of TV9 group Ravi Prakash  to create a ground initiative “SHAKHA 9” in Mumbai and this became a leader initiative in Mumbai now having more than 120 shakhas all over the city.No News channel has created such an initiative before.

Till this,Khalid got a great exposure with News and Corporate.

The other partner Samidha,Coming from Mumbai,Maharashtra,was a practicing Doctor who was writing for Magazines and Newspapers during all these years.

Samidha and Khalid created the duo of Samidha-Khalid and expanded themselves to entertainment world and became one of the first script writers of daily soaps in eminent Media Houses. They scripted more than 2000 hours of programming for top ranking Fiction and Non Fiction shows like addicting Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki on Star Plus to tear jerking Heena on Sony to nation shaking SaReGaMaPa Little Champs on Zee to mention a few.Samidha- Khalid worked closely with people like Ekta Kapoor,Zarina Screwvala and almost each and every "who is who" of entertainment television and had interacted with top executives of media companies and channels in their share to contribute in the growing entertainment sector. The long list of their TV shows includes ever popular HEENA (Sony),KAHANI GHAR GHAR KI (Star), K STREET PALI HILL (Star), SANJ IWANI (Star), MERI AAWAAZ KO MIL GAYI ROSHNI (Star), SOLHA SINGAAR (Sahara),ZAARAA (Sahara), HAADSAA (Zee), HAR GHAR KUCH KAHTA HAI (Zee), DULHAN (Zee), THODI SEE BEWAFAYI (Sony), KUTUMB (Sony), KOI DIL MEY HAI (Sony), RIHAYEE (Sony), TUMHARI DISHA (Zee), SAREGAMAPA (Zee), ANTAKSHARI (Zee), TWINKLE BEAUTI PARLOUR (Sab Sony),KAVITA (Channel 9), JANNAT (Channel 9), KASAMM (DD), SHAHNAAYI (DD), KAYAMAT (DD), KAANCH (DD), 1857 KRANTI (DD), KUCH KAHI ANKAHI (Geo TV Pakistan) and Muthiara Hathi and Apa Salahaku for Indonesian TV Channels.

Their experience and expertise were utilized by the entertainment groups of Dubai, Pakistan and Indonesia. Samidha Khalid has been a musician also and apart from doing music in stage plays, HeThey wrote composed and sung songs in a Mahima Choudhary starrer Hindi feature film titled as THE FILM. They also did the Writing and Creative Directorship for Zee SaReGaMaPa and Antakshari many times during these years. They worked on a prestigious assignment with Star Plus as a channel consultant for Bobby Bedi’s  Mahabharat. They have just finished co writing a book on Television journalism. They continues writing poetry and one of their Hindi poem has been recited by Sri Amitabh Bachchan in a Zee TV show.

Having experience of News,Corporate and Entertainment,Samidha Khalid decided to convert their energies into Entrepreneurial energies and started a Private Limited company in late 2008 for Traditional and Digital Content and Applications .The company  "TTMT-Ten Thousand Media and Technologies Pvt Ltd" is still running in its 6th year.They also have a partnership firm  " SKCL-Samidha Khalid’s Creative Lab”  which  produced a daily soap "BHAGONWALI - Baante Apni Taqdeer" for Zee TV in 2012  which ran for 318 episodes.The company is in process of producing more TV shows for GECs and Regional Channels.

Samidha Khalid has been working on Mobile and Web ventures for the last five years for their own company.They created India’s first ever Web Serial for Ibibo.com which was sponsored by Maruti Suzuki and thousands of contestant from all over the nation participated in it.They continue working on Web Based Products and have recently personally innovated,designed and created two more Web Products storyyumm.com and storyyummnetwork.com  for Media and Entertainment industry.Both the products are Web Based Applications and are ready to be launched now. They have a dream of creating Digital Entertainment properties and plateforms from India.They are continuously working on creating more ventures and keen to explore the Digital atmosphere with bigger vision in coming time.

PRESENTLY:

Khalid has just finished his latest assignment as Consultant for Reliance Industries at their Makers  Chamber Head Quarters where he helped in Ideation and Conceiving process during the elections for creating group’s and chairman’s digital impact.He worked under Rohit Bansal-Media Advisor to Mukesh Ambani.

They are the Consultant with Delhi based Newzstreet Journal Media Pvt Ltd which has created properties like Newzstreet.tv,Nyoooz.com and an Internet Radio Plateform i-radio.com.The company is promoted by Alok Verma who is a veteran TV Journalist responsible for launching various TV channels and who earlier headed Star India’s Digital Ventures from Banglore. They are ready with their Web Applications to be launched.

As Producers,They are working on few TV shows which are in the final stage of approvals.

They continue to work with other companies for different ventures in different capacities. The duo of Samidha Khalid is a mix of TV Journalist,TV Producer,Corporate Manager,Script Writer,Song Writer,Music Director,Digital Innovator and  Creative Consultant.Their strengths are attached with their  deep exposure to News,Entertainment and Corporate. Khalid’s E Mail ID is khalidmhashmi@gmail.com and his number is +91  9820400852.Samidha’s E Mail ID is paramsamidha@gmail.com and her number is +91 9820400857.Their Blog on Blogger is TVTALK by SamidhaKhalid and they can be Followed on Twitter @SamidhaKhalid.

Samidha Khali’s Companies:

Samidha Khalid has two companies:A partnership firm Samidha Khalid’s Creative Lab (SKCL) and Ten Thousand Media and Technologies Pvt Ltd (TTMT) .Both the companies have not earned anything in last Two and Half years.TTMT was incorporated in 2008 and SKCL was started in 2010.SKCL produced its First TV serial BHAGONWALI on Zee TV through a Joint Venture with Jai Production.