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It was December 1, 1975.
I came to Dubai on a three-week holiday as I had friends here. On landing, I almost got deported as my original visa which was deposited with the airline had not been forwarded to the immigration counter. Finally I was allowed to make a call to my 'sponsor'. Those were pre-etisalat days and the phone in the arrivals was not working. The immigration authorities were kind enough to let me cross over to the departure area to make the call (accompanied of course by a policeman, lest I become another illegal immigrant!)
After much backwarding and forwarding the visa was found in the drawer of an absent-minded airline clerk's draw.
39 YEARS IN THE EMIRATES > 1976 Tanvir Kanji arrived from Mumbai (then called Bombay) in Sharjah to establish his advertising agency Inca Tanvir > Brought with him a rich experience of 12 years in printing, publishing and advertising from India. > Founder member of the International Advertising Association - UAE Chapter, which started in 1979. He has held various portfolios over the years and took over as its president in 2004 > Member of the organising committee and the official host of 'Dubai 2006 - the 40th IAA World Congress' held in March 2006 > Represents the IAA-UAE in the Asian Federation of Advertising Associations (AFAA) and is on the managing committee of the Indian Business and Professional Council of Sharjah > Awarded the 'Medal of Merit' in 2006 by the IAA World Services Centre, New York, for meritorious service to the advertising industry > instrumental in forging a joint venture with the International Advertising Festival - organizers of the Cannes Advertising Festival - and the IAA-UAE to stage the Dubai Lynx Awards in March 2007 |
Pioneer adman
A pioneer of the UAE's advertising and mass communication scene, Tanvir Kanji has made his mark as an inventive adman through his varied contributions in nearly four decades towards raising the bar of the media industry to keep it vibrant and on par with international standards.
In the 1970s - when the young UAE was a sandstorm of economic and industrial transformations as new businesses were setting base even as existing ones thrived - he was awestruck by the making of a new El Dorado.
By setting up one of the first full-service advertising agencies in the region in 1976 at the age of 32, Kanji became instrumental in revolutionising mass media communications in the UAE. A risk-laden entrepreneurial option in the then media-naïve UAE, Kanji set up his agency in Sharjah from scratch. Today, Inca Tanvir is a renowned 'independent integrated communications services company' in the Middle East.
Under Kanji's dynamic leadership, the agency has won many prestigious awards over the years; these include Clio, Hollywood International Radio and Broadcasting, International Advertising Association (UAE Chapter), International Mercury, New York Festivals, a special award from The Radio & Television Producers Association of India, International Broadcasting awards, the 11th Annual International Questar 2000, Galaxy awards and many more.
As told to Issac John
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