Aazadi …
April 3, 2016Yatra has fun with it’s new TVC Which also means, while they may gently mock him, Kanhaiya Kumar is now a celebrity, on whose celeb power ads are getting made. There is no such thing as bad publicity. My favorite quote on…
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Fathers of Daughters and the Ariel Ad
February 21, 2016My dad used to do the laundry, and the ironing. He could cook up a divine meal. he adored his kids, and was adept at changing diapers. He treated women as equals, and brought me up as an equal 🙂He got me a lego set, dolls…
Christmas Ad – Old man …
December 7, 2015At times when i see Christmas Ads, i feel like Scrooge. Most of them, especially the firang ones, tend to be full of cheer, laughter, great looking people, great looking food and extended families who love being together, in joyous harmony – and…
A tale of Two Posters
September 14, 2011So Pakistan Published an Ad on 9/11. In the WSJ. The trouble with laughing so much that your stomach hurts, is that there is no time to feel outrage 😀 And, then given that it is the net and there is a…
IPL c&b Marriage Vows !!
April 14, 2010this via @shalombook on twitter. essentially, the soaps are rating an average of 5.4 TVR, and IPL is rating 5 in the top 4 cities amongst the GE audience. Soaps that cost an average of 6-12 lakhs beating up the country’s largest…
Stalked by Advertising
March 20, 2009HyperActiveX – came up with that title on a conversatin thread on FB. And, this was in context of Mr.Advani – the leader of the BJP – who has decided to use the net to reach out to audiences that extensively use…
61 years young
August 15, 200861 years old. Happy Birthday. And on this day let me link two ads. one from a time that i was growing up, and the other from now. Hamara Bajaj – 1989 Hamara Baja – 2006 Bhuland Bharat ki Bhuland Tasveer Naye…
Ficci Frames 2008
March 26, 2008[tag]Ficci Frames 2008[/tag] began yesterday in [tag]Mumbai[/tag]. This year's theme was sustaining development. As, usual it was great for the networking. I caught with quite a few people that I had lost touch with. Met some new ones. Bonded with old colleagues….
Flavoured C*ndoms & Good Taste
November 4, 2006There are things that you can live down, and there are things that you can’t. Our esteemed censor board chairperson, Sharmila Tagore’s comment on the XXX Flavoured Condoms ad: "The campaign is not in good taste" gives a whole new twist to…