about CEO
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CEO
About the CEO
Born and brought up in the quaint city of Moradabad in northern Uttar Pradesh, Akshay Kumar Kragi completed his schooling at the same. After completing his graduation in BSc. Honours in Statistics from Ramjas college, University of Delhi he continued his studies at Indian Institute of Mass Communication in the field of Radio and Television Journalism, where he secured an all India rank One in the IIMC examination. This led to his career taking off through working at All India Radio and gathering hands-on experience at multiple departments in Prasar Bharti, notably under DD as a journalist.
He then moved on to pursue his passion of filmmaking at Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute. With fondness for Urdu and Hindi literature, he also has a keen interest in performing arts. Akshay firmly believes that his knowledge of statistics combined with that of media and filmmaking, helps him in understanding the wide spectrum of production essentials and has also aided in curating a vision for developing the ideas provided to him. The diverse fiction as well as non-fiction projects he had been a part of are a testament to it.
Akshay has handled all round management, acting as an Executive Producer for a Documentary as well as a Short Film and also a few Music videos. He also has extensively studied Editing and has developed the craft over editing various projects of ranging formats. Along with this he has taken up many roles as and when required for any certain project he was onboard viz, being the part of research and development team, assisting the camera and sound recording teams on location and thus he understands the significance of collaborative teamwork and values individual specialized skills of the team members which characterizes his leadership qualities. With this potential Akshay aims to create meaningful work for which he is readily looking out for ideas and concepts that can strike a difference.