Aamir Khan felicitates winners of Microsoft - Talaash contest

Christened Mr. Perfectionist for the way he preps for his role portrayal, Aamir Khan, took time out to felicitate the winners of the Microsoft - Talaash contest and QualityAppQuest Contest, along with Amrish Goyal, Director, Windows Business Group, Microsoft India at the Trident, Mumbai. The winners of the Talaash Contest were Antriksh Mathur, Sudeep Pradhan, Sachitanand Pathak, Aditya and Hiral Savlaand. The QualityAppQuest Contest, which was open to individual app developers as well as companies developing apps, was won by Nirmit Kavaiya (Individual) and Codlash Technologies Private Limited (Company). All of them got the opportunity of a lifetime to not just meet Aamir Khan but also share the stage with him and receive their Windows Phone 8 powered Nokia Lumia devices from him.

At the event, Aamir interacted with the winners and the audience and spoke about his experiences in the film industry, his love for technology and, of course, its growing importance in his personal and professional life. The winners quizzed him on various aspects of his life ranging from his inspiration, to his artistic vision, to how technology impacts us today. True to his inclusive nature, Aamir engaged with them sportingly – asking and fielding questions and handing out prizes to the winners.

The Talaash contest

Microsoft Windows 8 announced a contest, both online and offline, that was open to consumers from October 2012 to January 2013. Participants had to share their experience of Windows 8 on the Windows Facebook page. Parallelly, Microsoft also ran a contest for developers, ‘QualityAppQuest Contest’, which helped in some very interesting apps getting developed for the Windows 8 platform.

Both the contests received an overwhelming response from across the country and in a closely contested finish the five contestants who framed the best responses and the two best app creators were invited to meet and interact with Aamir Khan in Mumbai.