//Ticket to maharashtra
Six episodes. Five cities. One mission; put Maharashtra's untold stories on YouTube.
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Role
Co-founder
Leap
A friend had an idea. We had no business saying yes. We said yes anyway. It worked.
//First rodeo
Yes before the how.
//Thats how every good story starts.
Always eager to take the wheel:
That's how a friend's idea became my problem to solve.
The idea
> Sahil had the vision. I had the instinct to figure out the rest.
> He'd seen me running three college committees at once managing 200+ people, pulling off large events, wrangling brand deals; while keeping up with a full degree.
> When he came to me, there was no brief, no roadmap. I sat down, mapped what the project needed, defined roles, split ownership across our team of five, and we started moving.
//The cleaner the problem is defined, the faster everything else follows. I've learned this every time I've started from scratch.
Always found a way to make it real:
That's how I closed three global brands with nothing but a deck and a pitch.
Brand deals
> The concept was solid. Amruta Khanvilkar; one of Maharashtra's most recognisable faces was on board.
> What we didn't have was money. I built a strategy, We built the decks, made the calls & pitched MG Motors, Dabur Meswak and Boat Lifestyle before we had a single frame of footage.
> The ask was for them to believe in an idea. They did. Production was funded.
//learnt quickly that a good pitch isn't about the product, it's about making the other person feel the gap you're filling.
Never let one door closing stop the journey:
That's how we went fully independent, overnight.
The Pivot
> We had Maharashtra Tourism on board; official state backing. Then, right before production planning began, they had to pull out for an unplanned government priority.
> Celebrity windows, seasonal shoot conditions, brand timelines all converging. We had every reason to pause.
> Instead, we assessed the constraints, made the call to go independent within 24 hours, and never looked back.
//the best decisions aren't made with complete information. They're made with clarity of direction and the courage to commit.
Always showed up, no matter what:
That's how we shot 6 episodes across 5 cities while sitting our final exams.
On The Road
> I designed the full production blueprint city sequence, shoot locations, local contacts, interview subjects and a delegation structure that gave each of our five team members clear ownership of their leg.
> On location, Sahil directed. I ran everything else: crew coordination, daily logistics, managing Amruta Ma'am and her team, keeping brand deliverables on track, and solving whatever the road threw at us that day.
> We quietly split the shoot across two phases to work around our final university exams. Our partners never knew. The work never showed it.
//Constraints are information, not excuses. We used ours to build a tighter, smarter execution plan.
Always measure what matters:
That's how we shifted an A-lister's entire view of digital media.
The Impact
> Amruta Khanvilkar is a household name in Marathi cinema and television, built entirely through traditional media.
> YouTube and social media were peripheral to her world. By the end of TTM, she had seen measurable growth on her own channels and experienced first-hand what independent digital content could unlock for a talent of her calibre.
> We didn't just deliver a series. We changed how she thought about the internet as a strategic platform; and that shift only happened because some students were too stubborn to stop.
//All three brand partners were satisfied with their deliverables. The series went live. We built something that had no business working... but it worked.