hen Vaibhav Kumaresh was in class 10 in his Chandigarh school, he never missed his Maths lectures. Pencil in hand, he would be immersed in his exercise book. Little did he realise that the sketches he was making would someday represent Channel [V], part of Rupert Murdoch�s News Corp media empire. By the end of his term, his comic book on Simpoo Sir was ready. Simpoo Sir aka Prof SS Sodhi who is now the 45-year-old ambassador for the music channel.

Incidentally, Kumaresh has also developed the station ID for rival channel MTV India - the clay-animated Poga. Though the two competing icons have made him famous, there is a lot more to Vaibhav Kumaresh, the 30-year-old animator from "all over India" (his father had a transferable job). Besides MTV and Channel [V], he has worked on Smirnoff, Amaron, Videocon, Baazee.com and a whole lot of documentaries and short films. ... more