Chandan Raina

I'm primarily a musician and an artist and event manager. However, since the 2020 pandemic, almost all music work came to an immediate halt. In trying to pivot to find work, the video making and editing experience I had gained as a musician came handy and I joined the company Firework as a freelance script writer, producer and editor of content. Firework is a company that makes short 30 second videos on various topics, ranging from the news to fashion to the latest viral trends and everything in between. I handled 4 of their IP's - Future Now, Only Good Vibes, Full Throttle and The Wish List. All the videos on these IP's were scripted, produced and edited by me. Besides this, I have conceptualized, shot and edited several videos for my own music video projects. I have also created a YouTube show called The Playlist, again, conceptualized, shot and edited by me. 

I am actively looking for work from home engagements like these. As I am a music composer and producer as well, I would be happy to inculcate that experience into my workflow as well. 

Including links here - 

1. The Playlist 

2. Game Of Thrones Cover

3. Firework - Future Now

4. Firework - Only Good Vibes

5. Firework - Full Throttle

6. Firework - The Wish List

• Took some time to pursue a career as a musician/artist. Joined the band, 'Anand Bhaskar Collective' and in that time produced, recorded and released 2 full length albums. These are available on all leading platforms, 
  

Link: Apple Music (https://itunes.apple.com/in/artist/anand-bhaskar-collective/951604677)

Link: Saavn (https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/excuse-me/lLKZ8zwXzVc_) (https://www.jiosaavn.com/album/samsara/UIAr8NNqyX8_)

• Conceptualized and released several music videos: 
  

Mera Safar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEvXgRBt2Ls)

Faasle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d4g2pQ6cVM)

Tere Bina (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf9H6exxG4w)

Intehaa (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoDLw3Tx-co)

• Performed and acted as the character "Flash", a rock guitarist in the international bollywood musical "Taj Express", which is produced by Shruti Merchant and Directed by Vaibhavi & Shruti Merchant. 

This musical only performs shows internationally and so far the show has toured USA, the UK twice, Turkey, Hong Kong

Reviews with a mention

Biz Asia (https://www.bizasialive.com/theatre-review-taj-express/)

Financial Times (https://www.ft.com/content/d9ce4986-51bb-11e7-a1f2-db19572361bb)

Theatre Jones (http://www.theaterjones.com/ntx/reviews/20170412143831/2017-04-12/Eisemann-Center-for-the-Performing-Arts/Taj-Express-The-Bollywood-Musical-Revue)

Asian Culture Vulture (http://asianculturevulture.com/portfolios/taj-express-hello-shahid-alia-climb-aboard-dont-forget-bollywood-dancing-shoes-review/)

• Composed and produced more than 50 jingles for TVCs. 

A few links:

McDonald's India: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1VhBULyQYM​)

All About You By Deepika Padukone: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJLi8AM8yhU)

TVS Jupiter-Zyada Colours​​: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDVB7hp3BEA)

Hero MotoCorp International Women's Day Campaign for 2018: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miIu39cMfb4)

​Bengal Warriors: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9VQDCmm8yE​​)

• Composed and produced for several short films and documentaries: links unavailable as these are privately screened films.  
  

• Artist Management : Musicians/Bands
  

-Swarathma

-Ankur & The Ghalat Family

-The F’16’s

And other upcoming artists and bands

For these artists, my responsibilities were to plot their growth graph for the financial year which includes multi city tours, music videos, sponsorships, video and music collaborations with some of India’s biggest artists, 3 album launches with supporting PR & Marketing.

• Artist Management : Comedians
  

I was managing the following artists –

-AiB

-Abish Mathew

-Kanan Gill

-Biswa Kalyan Rath

-Kenneth Sebastian

-Kaneez Surka

-Anuvab Pal

-Varun Thakur

-Aadar Malik

-Neville Shah

-Karan Talwar

-Brijul Bhakta

• Programmed and executed Stage42 – Indias first large format festival – we ran 3 shows every weekend in 7 cities for 2 months.
  
• Conceptualized, pitched and produced a post match analysis show for Star Sports during the Cricket World Cup – 2015, the show is called One Tip One Hand
  
• Produced & Directed the AiB Knockout
  
• Oversaw several video concepts & shoots for my entire roster
  
• Managed a revenue stream of more than 4 crores.
  
• Assigned and managed a team of 4 junior artist managers to each artist and maintained quality and management standards
  
• Maintained finances, cost sheets, profit – loss statements and invoices for each client for each event/show
  

• Stage & Tour Manager – Bacardi Black Rock Arena Stage, NH7 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 – Delhi, Pune, Kolkata & Bangalore
  

Managed all international artists headlining on this stage –

-Megadeth,

-Karnivool,

-Testament,

-Periphery,

-Textures,

-MuteMath,

-Tesseract,

-Messhugah

• Managed all Indian artists playing on this stage. Such artists include 

-‘The Karsh Kale Collective’ & The NH7 All Stars, 

-Pentagram, 

-Nucleya

-Indus Creed, 

-Parikrama, 

-The Ska Vengers, 

-The Fender Benders, 

-Demonic Resurrection, 

-Undying Inc., 

-Bevar Sea, 

-Them Clones, 

-Bhayanak Maut, 

-Scribe and ensemble metal acts – The Bombay Metal Project, The Delhi Metal Project and the Bangalore metal Project among many other artists.

• This profile included managing all sound and production elements of this stage as well as managing and guiding a crew to ensure smooth running of the stage.
  

• Handling the following active clients – Hard Rock Café, Phoenix Market City Kurla, He Said She Said, Nokia, 9X, Planet M, Inorbit among others
  
• Creating concepts, ideas and pitching them to these clients
  
• Locked in deals worth over 25 lacs monthly retainer over a period of 4 months
  
• Creation of several ideas, shows, formats and festivals properties
  
• Servicing clients in terms of presentations, budgets, concepts, execution and delivery
  
• Managing and assigning a team to each client and maintaining quality standards
  
• Maintaining finances, cost sheets, p.n.l’s and invoices for each client for each event/show
  

• Booked 6 mega indie and mainstream artists to perform for this event – Euphoria, Parikrama, Indian Ocean, Indus Creed, Sona Mohapatra and Papon & The East India Company
  
• Creation of a new ‘Plan India Because I Am A Girl Anthem’ in collaboration with all these artists
  
• Managing the entire event production and venue detailing
  
• Managing and coordinating between all stakeholders and artists involved in creation of a marketing campaign, creatives, logos, a crowd-funding campaign and social media marketing and activation. 
  

• Exclusive manager for singer Mohit Chauhan throughout this period. This included managing his social media, tours, technicals, bookings, music videos (Dewarists – Maaya, Mohit Chauhan & Indian Ocean – Season 1 Episode 2), etc.
  
• Touring and crew for various other bands within Parikrama Inc. such as Parikrama, Indian Ocean, Raghu Dixit Project, Advaita, Mrigya, Groove Adda, etc.
  
• Was also additionally the sound engineer for Groove Adda, Advaita and The North East Express during this period.
  
• Conceptualized and executed events undertaken by Parikrama Inc. end-to-end such as – The Commonwealth Games Village, Lady Shri Ram College annual fest, etc. 
  

Job entailed managing of stock, logistics, inventory, POS, marketing, social media and events of/for/in the store.

Created the Furtados Delhi Facebook page which is still in use today with over 650 members.

Organized various promotional activities, discount offers, gigs and other marketing strategies for the store.