GIFLIF | Comedy & Music Fest | 26 & 27 March | Bhopal
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OUR TEAM

MANOJ KUKREJA​

Director

Tennis player, Davis Cup commentator​​

Manoj with over 30 years of experience as a project consultant brings out minuscule elements of critical importance. Manoj has been a state-ranked tennis player (M.P) and is now a commentator, having covered Davis Cup, ITF matches and South Asian Games. Apart from his huge connectivity with people from various streams, he stands out as the backbone of team GIFLIF keeping the show going.

Naveen Anita Verma

Manager Operations

Naveen is a sensitive writer and a versatile professional. He was actively involved in community service since the age of 18, successfully providing free tuition and study material to over 130 children. His ready resourcefulness is a great asset to the GIFLIF team, where he dons multiple hats, right from social media management, to content curator, to volunteer handling, to logistics to hospitality. Naveen, in the true sense, is a one-man army, with exemplary people skills as well!

our advisors

PIYUSH MISHRA

Advisor

He has been one of the artists who stood by GIFLIF since day zero, when we first praisedhim on the concept. From being a mentor to a new festival to launching his dream project “Ballimaaraan – a band by Piyush Mishra”, he has always bestowed his trust on us. A long standing relation which we know has a long way to go. Thank you Piyush sir.

JAYPRAD DESAI

Advisor

filmmaker and a visionary. Jayprad has directed award winning Marathi film “Nagrik” and webseries “Hutatma” for Zee5. Jayprad has been an elder in the GIFLIF family, be it helping us connect with the right people to the creation of content for each edition of GIFLIF, Jayprad has been very instrumental in shaping GIFLIF.

GAURAV SOLANKI

Advisor

Gyarhvi A keladke with Gaurav Solanki: An Indian fiction writer, poet, screenwriter and lyricist. His latest work is Ayushman Khurrana starrier Article 15 that he has cowritten with Anubhav Sinha. He is known for his Hindi short story collection ‘Gyarahvin-A keLadke‘. He has written songs for Ugly, DaasDev and Veere Di Wedding. He was awarded Bharateeya Jnanpeeth’s Navlekhan Puraskar which he refused to accept.

Saurabh Dwivedi

Advisor

Saurabh Dwivedi, is the founding editor of the Lallantop. He is in the media industry for more than 12 years now. He  is often regarded as the role model for “Digital Journalism” and a critical pillar of new era of Journalism. His show “Political Kissey” became a popular show on digital media.

HANSAL MEHTA

Advisor

Hansal Mehta is an ace India film maker who has directed films such as Shahid, Aligarh, City Lights to name a few. He also won a national award for Shahid.He has been supporting GIFLIF since 2018.