Sheetal Vinod Talwar

Bio

Sheetal Vinod Talwar is a former marketing expert turned banker turned film maker - who, throughout his 15 years of working stint, has endeavoured to embrace innovation and make it a reality. Sheetal started his career as an advertising and branding expert - working for leading brands including Jet Airways, Moet Hennessey, Reebok, Coca Cola and others. His marketing insights soon placed him in the position of product and marketing head at American Express Bank - a stint which lasted 7 years and again witnessed him enabling innovations. Desire to explore more avenues and bring better professionalism in the burgeoning entertainment and film industry, made him start a production company - Vistaar Entertainment Ventures Private Limited. He partnered with noted entrepreneurs including Sanjeev Bikhchandani (Founder: Naukri.com) and Sanjay Rishi (Ex country director: American Express Bank) to actually initiate first-of-its-kind financial structuring in India to produce their debut production - 'Dharm'. Starring Pankaj Kapur and directed by Bhavna Talwar, the film received various accolades from critics all over the world. The film won the best picture award in the South Asian Film Festival of First Films, 2007 and was nominated at all the prestigious film festivals across the world. The Film also recently won 'Nargis Dutt Award for the best Film on National Integration' in the 2007 National Film Awards. Sheetal also undertook aggressive initiatives to market the film in leading international markets, making it the first Indian film to make money at European markets - thus opening doors to the Indian film industry. With a vision to take Indian film industry to its next growth phase, Sheetal then partnered with Religare Enterprises Limited - India's premier financial services group, to form India's first ever SEBI-registered venture capital fund - dedicated to support films. Enchristened as Vistaar Religare Film Fund, it envisions to provide a strong platform and support-pillar to encourage new talent in film industry and give them the requisite financial and expertise support to enliven their celluloid dreams. MBA Graduate from IMT Ghaziabad