ANUPAMA SUBRAMANIAN | CHENNAI:
Gone are the days of stampedes and queues to get the autograph of a star on a scrap of paper. City-based Nexmoo Solutions (India) Private Solutions, has launched an innovative new service, Mobile Autograph, where one can download an autographed photograph of one’s favourite celebrity.
The concept is similar to downloading ringtones and wallpapers on a cellphone. A database of autographed celebrity pictures are available, which can also be downloaded in a similar fashion.
Talking about the service, the man behind the concept, Padiaranjan, the managing director of Nexmoo says, “I’ve always been fascinated with celebrities. Their lives, their achievements and what they have access to is something most of us can only dream about. As a child when celebrities would come to my native village, my friends and I would always try and get their autographs in our notebooks. But we succeeded only once or twice — other times we would come back home disappointed.” After a lot of groundwork, Nexmoo found out that no service provider anywhere in the world offered this innovative facility, and so decided to plunge headlong into it. “Since we had access to the stars in the south, we decided to launch with their autographs. We first approached actor Vikram who thought it was a novel idea and gladly gave us his signature,” says Padiaranjan.
Mobile autograph includes photographs of celebrities such as Sneha, Srikanth, Sandhya, Prashanth, Vijayakanth, Padmapriya, Tollywood stars Ravi Teja and Uday Kiran among others. These photographs can be downloaded through any GPRS mobiles and will cost Rs.15 per autographed photograph.
Also there is a feature where just the autograph can be downloaded without the photograph, but the rate is the same.
The autographs will be available in English as well in other languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada.
Will celebrities get paid for this? “Not really, since the revenue is shared,” says Padiaranjan.
The company has signed agreements with celebrities from Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood and eminent sportpersons as well.
Gone are the days of stampedes and queues to get the autograph of a star on a scrap of paper. City-based Nexmoo Solutions (India) Private Solutions, has launched an innovative new service, Mobile Autograph, where one can download an autographed photograph of one’s favourite celebrity.
The concept is similar to downloading ringtones and wallpapers on a cellphone. A database of autographed celebrity pictures are available, which can also be downloaded in a similar fashion.
Talking about the service, the man behind the concept, Padiaranjan, the managing director of Nexmoo says, “I’ve always been fascinated with celebrities. Their lives, their achievements and what they have access to is something most of us can only dream about. As a child when celebrities would come to my native village, my friends and I would always try and get their autographs in our notebooks. But we succeeded only once or twice — other times we would come back home disappointed.” After a lot of groundwork, Nexmoo found out that no service provider anywhere in the world offered this innovative facility, and so decided to plunge headlong into it. “Since we had access to the stars in the south, we decided to launch with their autographs. We first approached actor Vikram who thought it was a novel idea and gladly gave us his signature,” says Padiaranjan.
Mobile autograph includes photographs of celebrities such as Sneha, Srikanth, Sandhya, Prashanth, Vijayakanth, Padmapriya, Tollywood stars Ravi Teja and Uday Kiran among others. These photographs can be downloaded through any GPRS mobiles and will cost Rs.15 per autographed photograph.
Also there is a feature where just the autograph can be downloaded without the photograph, but the rate is the same.
The autographs will be available in English as well in other languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi and Kannada.
Will celebrities get paid for this? “Not really, since the revenue is shared,” says Padiaranjan.
The company has signed agreements with celebrities from Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood and eminent sportpersons as well.
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