3RD Thought

Profile

3rd Thought Entertainment produces and supports conventional forms of art presented with experimental methods and processes. The consequence of such attempts are usually termed ‘niche’, and we stand by and for it. Without any funding whatsoever, we have coped to build our own entertainment province which engulfs music, movies, publications, and visual art. Within these forms of art itself, experimentation leaves infinite possibilities and we are out to explore far and wide.

With the 3rd Thought Community, we wish to build a sanctuary for artists who are riding on our wavelength. This is our tool to collaborate with, and expose potent minds. Our objective with the 3rd Thought Community is to assemble artists across art forms so that we can help each other fill in our blanks and progress together.

Mission statement: “To make intelligent art a household term.”

Motto: “Experiment, find, change. Repeat cycle.”

Vision: “We aim to bridge the gap between parallel and mainstream art in all forms and manifestations by producing premium artifacts across movies, music, publications and visual art.”

Philosophy

The two pillars of ideology that 3rd Thought stands on are integration of art forms and artistic union.

Integrating art forms like music, movies, writing, and visual art is the process that the community uses to extend the experience of every artifact.

Examples:

A music album is packaged with artwork to represent the songs hence giving the product more artistic value. This way, the musician and the designer both have a solid product.
Exhibition wise, we intend to do similar things: At a live show of one of our artist, we would deck up the place with artwork by other artists from the community or during an art exhibition by our artists, we would have musicians playing live sets to enhance the experience of walking around and viewing art besides in the space we could have poetry readings and movie projections. The idea is to attract an audience member to more than one artist and artifact under the disguise of exhibitions. This way, even the exhibition space gets more footfalls.
Similar combinations of different forms of art.

The pivotal intention of 3rd Community is to enhance ‘pure’ imagination and give hidden explosive artists a platform to expose their works and ensure that no commercial reasons affect or condition the true side of their personal art.

3rd Community also does not differentiate artists by social caliber, social standing, but certainly does not rule out extreme respect for our veterans and contemporaries. We believe that honest art is non-competitive and hence look forward to holding exhibitions with mature and new artists to promote confidence and visibility for the new artists. This community functions like one in the true sense where we are fundamentally trying to emerge with the power of artistic union.

3rd Community’s ambition is to produce unrestrained art and progress towards a society which is art oriented and hence more peaceful yet powerful.

Founders

Shaxeb Shaikh:

A literary graduate from the Mumbai University, Shaxeb has amassed a huge body of work across movies, film, writing and visual art. His versatility is his strength and he enhances this quality with a passionate urge to discover the unique.

His work experience has been equally versatile with stints in the professional writing realm, e-learning (TIS), supplementing at a growing Indian record label, assisting on music videos (Epitome Muving Pictures Company), script doctoring for the BBC besides handling complete independent full length movie projects as a writer, director and producer.

Siddharth Bhatia:

Besides an economics degree from Mumbai University, Siddharth is also a qualified audio engineer and music producer from SAE international technology college. One of the founding members of 3rd Thought, he is an avid entrepreneur with a rock solid vision for the entertainment industry.

He brings invaluable experience in the media and entertainment business, from his years at Infomedia India Ltd, Sonodyne, CNBC and www.tech2.com. He has worked on various commercial projects including pop albums, and ad jingles.

Karan Gour:

Hailing from Delhi, Karan is an IT graduate which he doubled with a sound engineering qualification from SAE international technology college. He brings with him surplus experience from the professional writing industry (AV MAX). His vision for pioneering electronic music and radical cinema is exemplary and he maximizes this gift with detailed application. He has also composed and produced innumerable commercial audio projects.

Abhinay Khoparzi:

Born to parents who are doctors, Abhinay has studied animation (MAAC), and is a qualified sound engineer from SAE international technology college. His bank of knowledge spans across the technical fields of music and film production, design, IT, and a bit of everything under the sun which quite proves his mettle for learning.

His work experience encompasses industries like music production, mobile content (audio) at Hungama, reviewing gadgets and computing products (CHIP), designing acoustics for Landmark and other corporate spaces (Sonodyne).

Shaan Vyas:

A commerce graduate from Mumbai University, Shaan has been avidly interested in marketing art. He began with independently organizing music shows, networking with artists across the globe and tracing new trends in music and cinema and initiating them in India. Other work experience includes assisting for Lux Aeterna Productions (London) and business analysis with A.C. Nielsen.

Ashwin Baluja:

Ashwin has a BBA degree from Amity University but he has changed his career direction from management to art and is now an integral part of the Indian animation industry. His work experience includes innumerable projects on which he has been a storyboard artist, modeler, texture artist, choreographer, and more. He has also worked with the Indian animation giant, Pixion.