Blow Up Event Culminates With A Promise For Future
Blow Up's campaign is launched by Indiapicture, conceptualized and co-created by Publicis Capital and supported by iCongo. The campaign's central idea is to save the public property from being damaged and burnt during the protests and movements.
- (1888PressRelease) April 29, 2011 - Indiapicture, Publicis Capital and I Congo together culminated the Blow Up Event at the India Habitat Center in Capital Tuesday, 26th April, 2011. This campaign is aimed to make citizens realize the fundamental duty as prescribed in the constitution of India - "To save public property and abjure violence".
The central idea was to highlight the financial damage due to destruction of public property which happens during demonstrations and agitations against the government. In order to avoid this in the future, came up the idea of providing potential protestors with free images of public property to burn and vandalize instead. It is nothing but an effort to change the bad reputation of the nation that is known for destroying public property worth considerable amounts during these agitations.
The Event featured a photo exhibition on riots, agitations and protests highlighting the damage. The Exhibition was followed by a documentary highlighting the presentation of a solution and Blow Up Events across sections and regions of the country, further leading to a Panel Discussion. Various eminent personalities were present at the event and discussion including Wajahat Habibullah, Ex Chief Information Commissioner of the Government of India and Right to Information watchdog in Jammu and Kashmir, Shri Shahid Siddiqui, Member of the Parliament of India representing Uttar Pradesh, Sanjay Kaul Founder, President of People's Action, a registered society in India involved in social, economic and political advocacy on issues related with good governance in the National Capital Region of Delhi, and Lalit Nagar, leader Gujjar Community, currently serving as a MEMBER OF P.C.C. (Pradesh Congress Committee). The campaign website 'www.blowup.co.in' was also formally launched during the event along with three viral campaigns to popularize the concept among social activists and political parties besides general public.
Mr. Dushyant Mehta, Founder and CEO, Indiapicture, India's leading photo stock company, said "Having a first hand experience of the turbulent times in the valley, I have always believed protesting for any issue should be such that doesn't in-turn cause inconvenience and harm to the public at large. This belief system along with my experience in visual media germinated the idea of Blow Up that presents a peaceful alternative to protesting".
Mr. Mehta inherits the legacy of oldest photo studio in Kashmir- The Mahatta's and is passionate about the power of images. "My belief that a picture can tell thousands of stories along with the creative insight of Emmanuel Upputuru and on ground support from Jeroninio Almeida helped me realize Blow Up", Mr. Mehta added. Emmanuel Upputuru, National Creative Director, Publicis India, said, "Working for such a meaningful social campaign gives me a hearty creative satisfaction that I feel is above any award or accolade". It is worth note that Mr. Upputuru has won a plethora of national and international awards, including Cannes, One Show (New York), D&AD (London), Clio (Miami), ADFEST (Bangkok), Abby and Global EFFIE 2007-2008. Mr. Jeroninio "Jerry" Almeida, Chief Volunteer at ICONGO and a social entrepreneur expressing his pleasure and happiness on the success of Blow Up, said, "I have been a social volunteer from my early days but what has pleased me is the cutting edge idea for social awareness in Blow Up and hence I have tried my best to transform this into a big ticket project and initiative. The very idea to target life size images rather than public property has interested me."
The event was culmination of a campaign which started April 1, with its very first Blow Up event. The first of many such events was held in Neemka village in Haryana, where Gujjar Community pledged not to destroy public property during agitations and protests. Next was in Nawada village in Bihar with another peaceful demonstration on 11th April by burning an effigy of 'Ambassador Car' as a new way of protest where the same mob was in news on 31st March 2011, for protesting against poor power supply in town resulting in torching the office and residence of the Bihar State Electricity Board (BSEB) executive engineer. Similar demonstrations were held in Kashmir, Jharkhand and Maharashtra culminating today.
Eventual objective is of saving public property. To say that even if one state absorbs this method of protest, it will save public property worth 50 crores or so. As per an estimate published by Maharashtra govt, they loose around 50-75 crores annually due to protests with a further collaterals damage worth more than 200 crores due to loss of business. Indian Railways have claimed a loss of approximate 3-4 crores during Gujjar protests in UP and maintain an annual loss of 60-70 crores each year as a consequence to protests and agitations. Join us in an effort to change the bad reputation of the nation that is known for destroying public property worth considerable amounts during agitations.
About Indiapicture
Indiapicture is India's leading photo stock agency which caters to Ad agencies and editorial clients. The founders are third generation photographers from a family of photographers which owned Mahatta & Co. in Kashmir founded way back in 1915. Taking forward the one of the oldest legacy in sector brothers Hemant Mehta and Dushyant Mehta started Indiapicture whose website www.indiapicture.in offers more than 4 crore images for creative professionals and advertising professionals.
About Publicis
Publicis Worldwide is now represented by two agencies in India - Publicis Ambience and Publicis Capital. Combined these two agencies are estimated to have a Top 10 ranking - with offices in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai. Publicis is among the top three ranked creative agencies in India - having ranked 3rd in 2009 and 2010 Abby/Goafest. With over 500 awards since inception Publicis have won accolades at all major international award shows - Clio, One Show, D&AD, Adfest, Spikes - including a Gold Lion at Cannes 2010. The Publicis network in India includes Publicis Modem (Digital); Publicis Dialog (Experiential) and Red Lion (Design). In India Publicis works with an impressive array of clients that include Apollo Tyres, Carrefour, Citibank, Escorts, Fidelity Asset Management, Gold Plus (Tata), Hewlett Packard, IFFCO Tokio, Lakme, LG, L'Oreal, Maruti Suzuki, Nerolac Paints, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Reserve Bank of India, Sanofi-Aventis, United Biscuits, Videocon D2H among others.
About I- Congo
The International Confederation of NGOs- www.iCONGO.in, passionately works with PEOPLE, for encouraging social justice through citizen action and on the other end, works with the PEOPLE SECTOR (i.e. the NGOs which are rapidly losing out on credibility today), to reclaim and preserve public trust for the sector. Mostly managed by JUST VOLUNTEERS (which includes various concerned citizens and a few eminent people from Government, Academia, Literati, Media & India Inc), I- Congo sensitises "citizens at large" to "Be the change they want to see" and go beyond JUST GIVING MONEY (as small donations without looking into impact and accountability cannot change the world).
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