Mumbai: Laqshya Event Capital (LEC) has announced its expansion with the introduction of a new business vertical called ‘Event Originals’. This vertical will see creation of original fiction and non-fiction content connected to IPs owned by LEC.
This move has made the company the first mover in the space of event IPs to produce original content on a solid scale. ‘Event Originals’ will be mainly created for OTT, digital, film and other mainstream platforms.
Laqshya Event Capital has joined hands with Mango People Media, a production house with a series of successful web series & producer of Taapsee Pannu’s next feature film, Rashmi Rocket. This collaboration will co-create content slates across different genres for Event Originals.
An ambitious and soon-to-be-launched IP that will cater to the southern Indian music community will also be produced as a non-fiction format series. Covering music-rich landscapes of southern India, the series will feature famous celebrity mentors and rising singing talent across Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada languages.
Leading the company onto this brave new path is Laqshya Event Capital’s newly appointed CEO Shyam Chhabria, previously the COO and Head of Branded Content at the company. Shyam has previously made his mark with iconic IPs and spearheaded content models and formats across brands including Vh1 Supersonic, VIU India, Viacom18 Media Pvt Ltd, Times Television Network, Balaji Telefilms & NDTV Media.
Speaking about the vision of expansion, Shyam Chhabria, CEO, Laqshya Event Capital said, “This move is in line with our vision to build well-rounded, 360 degree IPs. We want to build innovative and high converting content that audiences can relate to and brands can associate with. We aim to deliver customised and personalized customer experiences that are united whether offline or online. With this expansion in content, our goal is to create offerings for a wide spectrum of audiences, which will help us solidify our existing communities and play a role in developing new communities.”
Elaborating on the expansion, Deepak Choudhary, Founder and Director,Laqshya Event Capital said, “We are celebrating eight years of being in the event industry and what better way to mark this milestone than to introduce new verticals. In the past eight years, we have had major success with our on-ground events and when the pandemic hit, we were able to seamlessly transition to virtual events. Today, we are confident to step into the world of digital content and hope to conquer this space with our original and innovative, IP led content creations. We’re also thrilled to have an ace brand strategist like Shyam leading Event Capital as CEO on this new path. He has led major innovations across events and content and is sure to add immense value to our new avatar”
