Bharat Dabolkar
Actor & Ad Guru
Bharat dabholkar has graduated with economics Honours , is a lawyer and business management graduate.
Represented college in welterwight boxing competitions for two years.
Win the prestigious gold trophy in the youth festival intercollegiate dance competitions for two years.
Doing modern ballet and Spanish gypsy dances.
Was one of the six students selected to join the active Indian army attachment traing with 16 Rajput and 9 Rajputana rifles .
As an advertising professional he has created campaigns for all the amul products including amul butter, all the parle brands like frooti, appy , thums up 500 and more, all teas of Tata tea, Tata salt, Tetley , goodknight, hit, bank of India, state bank of India, exim bank, LIC, loreal, nestle and many more. He has won the gold trophy for excellence in advertising for 14 years in a row.
He was the managing director of Publicis India, part of the second largest agency network in the world.
Set up his own advertising agency in tanzania and Kenya and successfully ran it for 14 years.
Managing committee member of Lalit Kala Academy , government of India.
Governing council member of Media and Entertainment skills council, under the government of India.
He has written and directed 35 English plays including Bottoms up, the longest running play in the history of Indian English theatre.
He has acted in hindi, marathi, Tamil, telugu, Malayalam and bhojpuri films. He wrote and directed India’s first hinglish feature film, God only knows, the only Indian film to be distributed by Warner brothers.
wrote and directed doordarshan’s first Hindi breakfast serial Dhamal. he wrote and anchored India’s first advertising and marketing show on Zee network called Dream merchants, he anchored Star TV’s first international show Shock Tv. Conceptualised and shot the music video of late Atal bihari bajpayee ji’s famous poem unki yaad karen.
He has been the selector of participants for the KBC Show both hindi and marathi for 14 years.
In 2014 wrote the campaign line ‘ Abki baar, Modi Sarkar.’ 😊