Those irritating tit-bits that make you pull your hair, coming between your favorite shows or the ones that have cute heroes….or ….a nice punch line which makes us remember the ad for years. The good and bad are always there to ads. Here are some that I like-:)
A cozy bedroom backdrop and a lovely newly wed couple…a ramu kaka enters and brings in tea(in the background): They tell the price o the tea that has become a kabab me haddi of the newly wed is rs.***.The dulhan is in one room and the groom tries to contact her. He sends a mobile to her through a boy(in the background):the price of the mobile echoes rs.****.Later the couple is together and share a warm smile together(in the background):echoes-priceless
Some things money can’t buy but for everything else there is** MasterCard.**
Shahhrukh and saif wearing mawalli clothes with a bottle of **PEPSI **in hand. They meet ticket checker in front of the drive-in. The duo become the ticket checker and allow only red, white and black cars and arrange them in some order. Meanwhile there is a girl’s college opposite Preity Zinta is on the terrace with her friends and shahrukh whistles so that she looks down. And then you see an aerial view of a heart made of red cars with a minister’s white car in the middle with a beeping siren.(It looks as if a heart is beating!)
A tense room with grim looking people, and in the middle are two gentle men stooping over a chessboard. A boy is sitting in the audience eating parle-G.He indicates one of the players to move a peg, the man thinks over a bit and does so thinking the boy might be right. The other man is enlightened and says checkmate and wins the game. Everybody claps, the man searches the boy but finds that he is running towards the winner and shouts” daddy….” .**PARLE-G** ……khane wale bachon se bach ke rehna
A cricket match is going on(Indian cricketers are not playing), taking quite a boring turn, the camera man spots Yana gupta.He then directs the camera over to her .She tosses a popcorn into her pink lips lined with** LAKME LIP LINER**. The popcorn falls on her nose instead. All this can be seen on the big screen in the ground so the crowd lets out a dejected sigh. She again tosses the popcorn and this time it goes in the mouth. The crowd is shouting and cheering out loud.
Two mothers are comparing their children’s marks. While the son is playing with the dhakan of **VASELINE **body lotion. His mother is finding the cap. The boy moves the cap over the hands of the daughter o mother no.2 and says”*chee itna kharab rasta….*”(Her hands are very dry. Mother no.1 gives mother no.2 the lotion. Later in school the son is again playing with the cap. The girl puts her hand and says* “highway pe chalana hai….”
This **ASIAN PAINTS **ad is just worth mentioning. The brother and sister are alone in the house. The naughty, chotti bahen tells her bhaiya to do some craft and then they stick the cuttings on the wall thus making a zoo…and…fishes…. etc.The parent calls home and talks to the daughter who says”pata nahi chintoo kuch cutiin-shutting kar raha hai ;)”
The **SURF EXCEL** ad is creating waves all over and deserves this too. The brother-sister are walking back from school and the bahen who is a “big cotton ball” falls into a puddle. The brother is furious and wants to take revenge. And so like the valiant kicks and punches into the mud and cutely says to his sis” sorry bol raha hai….”
There is a garden where a small boy is watering a sapling. The neighbor uncle passes by and smiles. After a few years the boy is a teenager and the uncle again passes and is happy to see him watering now a shrub. After still a few years a young man stands there with a full-grown tree. The uncle now a in late 50’s is impressed as soon as he leaves the young man climbs the tree……………straight into the balcony of the uncle’s daughter! In the background echoes** LIC PREMIUM jeevan **beema policy.
I really like this one, it is a **lifebuoy ad**. There is this small boy, he ties a roomal on his head and wearing banyan and shorts is out on the streets to clean his society! Seeing him his friends join him and together with the jhadoos they clean everything and after completing the work have a bath of lifebuoy soap. Its linkage with the soap isn’t that effective but the whole idea of unity is marvelous!
**Okay now these aren’t television commercials but I really can’t resist myself from putting these done. They are just terrific…**
This was in times of India and it went on like this:
H NDU
MUSL M
CHR ST AN
S KH
An **“I” **matters for all of us because we are united, we are Indians without the “I” we are meaningless……
There was one more on such grounds there was this big picture of shahrukh Khan in his Asoka attire and below was aline that could really move the grounds underneath you:
Is Shahrukh a muslim or a hindu?
I had always wanted to end with this kind of an advertisement(though it doesn’t come on TV.) which you know proud to feel that we are Indians and will be the same where veer you are and with whoever we are……