The Marketing Keeda Podcast

Gujarati cinema in 2025 showed quiet strength and consistency.
Strong family footfalls from Tier 2 and Tier 3 towns proved this market is driven by habit and trust, not hype alone.
Films like Laalo stood out with steady week-on-week collections and strong word of mouth, reinforcing how rooted Gujarati cinema is in its core audience.

March 19 is not just a release date. It’s a box office moment.

Two massive forces collide that Friday.
Dhurandhar 2 vs Toxic.

On one side is Ranveer Singh, riding the wave of Dhurandhar, a film that went past ₹900 crore worldwide and turned him into a true mass phenomenon across the Hindi belt.

On the other is Yash, whose KGF 1 & 2 together rewrote Indian box office history with ₹1,200+ crore and an unmatched fan following across South India and mass Hindi markets.

What makes this clash interesting is not ego or release politics.
It’s confidence.
Neither production house is blinking.

No postponements.

No soft exits.

Just belief in audience pull.

The likely split is fascinating.

Dhurandhar 2 will dominate Hindi speaking markets with scale and reach.

Toxic will explode in the South and mass Hindi belts where Yash is not just a star but a sentiment.

How to create a “Killer Personal Brand”?

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Personal branding has risen in popularity over the past few years — and with that popularity, we’ve also seen mistakes pop up. Which begs the question, how can you create a personal brand while avoiding the biggest pitfalls along the way? 

I (Mayank Sehgal) discussed that question with Jerry Jose, along with my co-host Raghuveer Singh and some more experts in the domain. 

While there is so much said and promoted about building a personal brand, there are many who get carried away from what others are doing and they get confused mid way.

With this series of podcast, I bring along, Jerry Jose, a personal branding expert to help us all understand the basics of Personal Branding. 

Tune in and learn with Mayank Sehgal & Jerry Jose.

Varun Satia is the Founder and CEO of Kraftshala, India's top marketing & sales learning platform. Strongly passionate about being an entrepreneur, after a successful corporate career, Varun followed his calling and founded Kraftshala in 2016.   

He firmly believes that the need for change in the education system in India led him into building Kraftshala. What was initially a passion project, catapulted into a well-rounded organisation with over 100,000 members in its community, having facilitated programs for thousands of users thus far.  The podcast I recorded with Varun Satia is now live!  

 I have tried and touched upon various phases of his life, starting from when he was a student himself, to his days at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani..  Marketing Lessons he learnt at Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi and how he managed the India's most loved brand (Maggi) at Nestlé.    

These are the questions I asked him:   

00:20 Varun's Life Story from his beginning to founding Kraftshala 

16:00 Top Resources he gives credit to 

19:00 People who inspire him the most  

24:00 Some Fun Questions 

28:00 Best & Worst Student at Kraftshala 

30:00. Rapid Fire with Varun 

34:00. The Keeda of Marketing inside   

And this episode would not have been complete without knowing why Varun calls Ice Cream - The God of Food and why nothing can beat Test Cricket  All this wouldn't have been possible without a big support from Nishtha Jain.  Wait no more, watch to it right away. 

Tune into Video Version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jby572tddY 

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You have watched them on Shark Tank India, You have heard them on their social media post and their recent visit at The Kapil Sharma Show..

But I got two of my favourite "Sharks" Anupam Mittal and Ashneer Grover on my Twitter Space this week. 

Don't miss this exclusive freewheelie fun conversation with these two and along with my co-hosts, Udit Goenka and Mahim Jalan. 

Rachna Prasad has spent more than 25 years into marketing, brand communication, business management and more.  

From managing CRM at Ogilvy to heading marketing at Oxigen, and from managing brand communication at American Express to now heading B2B marketing for SaaS product at Vinculum group, Rachna has seen it all.   

Let's hear her story in this Episode.   

Listen to previous episodes here:  https://linktr.ee/marketingkeeda 

Connect with Rachna Prasad on Linkedin:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachnaprasad15/

Connect with Mayank Sehgal on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayanksehgal/

Website: mayank-sehgal.com