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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Hot Brides Courtesy Lakme

Saket Chaudhary's much loved 2006 romantic-comedy Pyar Ke Side Effects provides us with some insights on why do girls want to get married and boys are usually (though not always) averse to the idea.

There's a scene in the movie where Sid (Rahul Bose) Nanoo (Ranvir Shorey) and Aamir Bashir (Kapil Sharma - Sid's brother-in-law) discuss the finer details of marriage over bottles of beer.

Kapil's observation is that girls want to get married because wedding is a beauty contest that every girl can win, as on that day her make-up, clothes, jewellery is better than rest of the girls. That day "she can be Miss World".



And Lakmé Salon's Bridal Sutra attempts to make that every girl's 'Miss World dream' come true.

I found this print ad for Bridal Sutra Looks at the Lakmé Salon ver sexy. This proves that sexiness isn't inversely proportional to the skin area covered with clothes.

Lakme Bridal Sutra Ad
Look the best on your wedding day.
Introducing Bridal Sutra looks at the Lakmé Salons.
Signature bridal make-up, hairdos and saree draping in a range of traditional, contemporary and regional styles.
Visit www.lakmeindia.com to locate a salon near you.
Call 011-26143298/0584 for further queries.
Lakmé Salon

Agency: Publicis Ambience

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Months After Chrome Launch Google Guys Still Use Firefox

Google has pumped up advertising for its new baby - Google Chrome via its Adwords channel. It is also promoting the product through YouTube and also LinkedIn (amongst others).

So this implies that Google (obviously) wants the world to use its Chrome browser. But it seems that the guys there in Mountain View are themselves yet to get used to their very own web browser and are still relying on Firefox for travelling across the World Wide Web.

I stumbled across this browsing through Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide [PDF link] (Dated November 13, 2008) [Via] and found that one of the screenshots (on page 3) that the good guys used to make things easier for us has a tiny but very identifiable Firefox logo. That can mean only one thing - Google still uses Firefox! And that is a good thing. Even Bill Gates might be.

Google still uses Firefox

To give them the benifit of doubt, they might be working on a Mac (I never worked on that much) and Google is yet to release a Mac-compatible version of Chrome. Therefore Firefox.

Related posts:· Whoa! Google Chrome has Crashed
· Google Chrome Identified as Safari
· The Google Chrome Comic Book

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Watch Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai for Free Legally

Sarabhai vs SarabhaiMany people visit this blog looking for free download or an option to watch online the popular sitcom Sarabhai Versus Sarabhai, but find only a compilation of some of the best moments from the serial.

All the episodes of the serial used to be available on Indya.com, but at a cost (and also illegally elsewhere). The good news is that it is now Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai is available for free online viewing at Rajshri.com.

At the time of posting this only the first four episodes were made available. I believe that in some time all the episodes would be put up (though my analysis says that they have already uploaded 16 episodes but haven't yet made them visible on the website).

Since there is no download option, users with slower internet connections can find the experience a bit painful. But then there are ways to store the files on your hard disk for future smooth viewing.

Related posts:· Sarabhai Versus Sarabhai: Select Shots

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

Durex Apple: The Original Temptation

Durex apple flavoured condoms print ad:
Durex Apple Flavoued Condoms
Your turn now to seduce heer with the forbidden fruit.
Apple flavoured condoms.
Next time she is hungry for love, offer her a heavenly temptation.
Durex's new apple flavoured condom.
So that lovemaking turns more fruitful.
Even sinful.
Durex Apple
The original temptation


Agency: McCann

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John, Jiah and a pair of Wrangler's

Hunky John Abraham and dusky Jiah Khan in a commercial for Wrangler Jeans. Both get close and closer. Fingers slip into the belt loop, hands get beneath the thighs. And given Jiah's penchant for water she wants to do it under the shower. But John has other plans - a long run away in a bathtub on the riverside. "Do It Your Way - Wrangler".


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Thursday, November 13, 2008

London International Awards - Indian Winners

London International AwardsIndian advertising agencies put up a decent show at the London International Awards 2008.

Leo Burnett picked up the maximum metals. It won nine of the 11 nominations it achieved. Unsurprisingly, eight of the nine awards were for the Luxor Highlighter campaign: three golds for Che, Charlie and Hitler in the Design category and two golds for Highlight What is Important – Pink and Blue in the Print category. Che, Charlie and Hitler won a silver each in the Print category, while Tide Detergents picked up a silver in the Consumer Campaign sub-category in Print.

O&M Mumbai won three silvers, two for its work for Neo Sports in the Campaign and Media Promotion sub-category in Television/Cinema. The third silver was brought home by the Videocon Integra Wide Screen TV campaign in the Radio category.

Production house Nirvana Films won a silver for its work on Neo Sports in the Television/Cinema category.

A showcase of the winning entries from India:

Luxor Highlighter Che
Category: Design - Poster
Award: Gold
Category: Category: Print - Office Equipment
Award: Silver
Ad: "Che"
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Product: Luxor Highlighters
Client: Luxor Writing Instruments Pvt Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: KV Sridhar
Executive Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Copywriter: Russell Barrett
Art Director: Santosh Padhi
Illustrator: Kunal Mhabadi


Luxor Highlighter Chaplin
Category: Design - Poster
Award: Gold
Category: Category: Print - Office Equipment
Award: Silver
Ad: "Charlie"
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Product: Luxor Highlighters
Client: Luxor Writing Instruments Pvt Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: KV Sridhar
Executive Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Copywriter: Russell Barrett
Art Director: Santosh Padhi
Illustrator: Kunal Mhabadi


Luxor Highlighter Hitler
Category: Design - Poster
Award: Gold
Category: Category: Print - Office Equipment
Award: Silver
Ad: "Hitler"
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Product: Luxor Highlighters
Client: Luxor Writing Instruments Pvt Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: KV Sridhar
Executive Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Copywriter: Russell Barrett
Art Director: Santosh Padhi
Illustrator: Kunal Mhabadi


Luxor Highlighter Pink
"Every daily newspaper is chockablock with news. People in fact tend to scan each page and read only what is important. We just decided to help them do that better. Luxor Highlighters tied up with a National Newspaper who agreed to hiighlight only the salient parts of every article on a particular page. Our team worked closely with the editorial team in coming uo with innovative and intrinsically true stories within the larger story. The promotion touched the consumer at exactly the right time and at just the right place."

Category: Print - Office Equipment
Award: Gold
Ad: "Highlight What's Important - Pink"
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Product: Luxor Highlighters
Client: Luxor Writing Instruments Pvt Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: KV Sridhar
Executive Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Copywriters: Russell Barrett/Santosh Padhi
Art Director: Santosh Padhi
Illustrator: Kunal Mhabadi


Luxor Highlighter Blue
Category: Print - Office Equipment
Award: Gold
Ad: "Highlight What's Important - Blue"
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Product: Luxor Highlighters
Client: Luxor Writing Instruments Pvt Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: KV Sridhar
Executive Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Copywriters: Russell Barrett/Santosh Padhi
Art Director: Santosh Padhi
Illustrator: Kunal Mhabadi


Tide Lipstick
The centre spread of a magazine was stuck with each other with post-it glue
On opening the page the reader saw the stain stuck to the t-shirt
Post-it glue was applied on the lipstick
On further opening the page the reader could easily remove the stain off the garment


The centre spread of a magazine was innovately used to communicate a fresh new idea for Tide. The left half of the centre spread had the visual of the supposedly stained garment and the other half had the visual of a secretary with red lipstick. The lipstick was stuck to tha garment with the help of post-it glue. When the reader tried to open the page, he could easily remove the lipstick stain off the garment. This laid emphasis to our core proposition, 'Put stains back where they belong'."

Category: Print - Consumer Campaign
Award: Silver
Ad: "Lipstick"
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Client: Procter & Gamble
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Chief Creative Officer: KV Sridhar
Executive Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Copywriter: Santosh Padhi
Art Director: Santosh Padhi
Photographer: Amol Jadhav
Illustrator: Bhushan Patil


Tide Ketchup
"The centre spread of a magazine was stuck with each other with post-it glue
On opening the page the reader saw the stain stuck to the t-shirt
Post-it glue was applied on the ketchup
On further opening the page the reader could easily remove the stain off the garment


The centre spread of a magazine was innovately used to communicate a fresh new idea for Tide. The left half of the centre spread had the visual of the supposedly stained garment and the other half had the visual of a boy spilling ketchup from his burger. The ketchup was stuck to tha garment with the help of post-it glue. When the reader tried to open the page, he could easily remove the ketchup stain off the garment. This laid emphasis to our core proposition, 'Put stains back where they belong'."

Category: Print - Consumer Campaign
Award: Silver
Ad: "Ketchup"
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Client: Procter & Gamble
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Chief Creative Officer: KV Sridhar
Executive Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Copywriter: Santosh Padhi
Art Director: Santosh Padhi
Photographer: Amol Jadhav
Illustrator: Bhushan Patil


Tide Icecream
"The centre spread of a magazine was stuck with each other with post-it glue
On opening the page the reader saw the stain stuck to the t-shirt
Post-it glue was applied on the ice-cream
On further opening the page the reader could easily remove the stain off the garment

The centre spread of a magazine was innovately used to communicate a fresh new idea for Tide. The left half of the centre spread had the visual of the supposedly stained garment and the other half had the visual of a girl having an ice-cream.

The ice-cream was stuck to tha garment with the help of post-it glue. When the reader tried to open the page, he could easily remove the ice-cream stain off the garment. This laid emphasis to our core proposition, 'Put stains back where they belong'."


Category: Print - Consumer Campaign
Award: Silver
Ad: "Ice Cream"
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Client: Procter & Gamble
Agency: Leo Burnett India, Mumbai
Chief Creative Officer: KV Sridhar
Executive Creative Director: Santosh Padhi
Copywriter: Santosh Padhi
Art Director: Santosh Padhi
Photographer: Amol Jadhav
Illustrator: Bhushan Patil







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Category: Radio
Award: Silver
Ad:"Gunshot"
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai
Client: Videocon Industries Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: Piyush Pandey
Executive Creative Director: Sumanto Chattopadhyay
Creative Director: Shekhar Jha
Copywriter: Karn Singh
Agency Producer: Diya Lahiri
Production Company: Musica, Mumbai
Recording Studio: Eardrum, Mumbai
Audio Engineer: Dereck
Sound Design Company: Eardrum, Mumbai
Sound Design By: Dereck
Voice-Over: Manoj Shetty







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Category: Radio
Award: Silver
Ad: "Soap Opera"
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai
Client: Videocon Industries Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: Piyush Pandey
Executive Creative Director: Sumanto Chattopadhyay
Creative Director: Shekhar Jha
Copywriter: Karn Singh
Agency Producer: Diya Lahiri
Production Company: Musica, Mumbai
Recording Studio: Eardrum, Mumbai
Audio Engineer: Dereck
Sound Design Company: Eardrum, Mumbai
Sound Design By: Dereck
Voice-Over: Manoj Shetty/Juhi Chatturvedi







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Category: Radio
Award: Silver
Ad: "Table Tennis"
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai
Client: Videocon Industries Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: Piyush Pandey
Executive Creative Director: Sumanto Chattopadhyay
Creative Director: Shekhar Jha
Copywriter: Karn Singh
Agency Producer: Diya Lahiri
Production Company: Musica, Mumbai
Recording Studio: Eardrum, Mumbai
Audio Engineer: Dereck
Sound Design Company: Eardrum, Mumbai
Sound Design By: Dereck
Voice-Over: Manoj Shetty



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Category: Television & Cinema
Award: Silver
Ad: "Gas"
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai
Client: Neo Sports Broadcast Pvt Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: Piyush Pandey
Group Creative Director: Sagar Mahabaleshwarkar
Associate Creative Director: Ramamurthy S
Copywriters: Ramamurthy S/Vinod Sudheer/Gururaj Rao/Sweta Ghorawat
Agency Producer: Deepa Limaye
Production Company: Nirvana Films, Bangalore
Executive Producer: Mekala Krishnaswamy
Producer: Mekala Krishnaswamy
Director: Prakash Varma
Director of Photography: PS Vinod/Tassaduq
Editor: Sally Salgaonkar
Sound Design Company: Famous Studios - Darshan VG, Mumbai
Sound Design: Nirvana Films
Music Arrangers: Rupert Fernandes/Anandh Ranganathan



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Category: Television & Cinema
Award: Silver
Ad: "Rusty Nail"
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai
Client: Neo Sports Broadcast Pvt Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: Piyush Pandey
Group Creative Director: Sagar Mahabaleshwarkar
Associate Creative Director: Ramamurthy S
Copywriters: Ramamurthy S/Vinod Sudheer/Gururaj Rao/Sweta Ghorawat
Agency Producer: Deepa Limaye
Production Company: Nirvana Films, Bangalore
Executive Producer: Mekala Krishnaswamy
Producer: Mekala Krishnaswamy
Director: Prakash Varma
Director of Photography: PS Vinod/Tassaduq
Editor: Sally Salgaonkar
Sound Design Company: Famous Studios - Darshan VG, Mumbai
Sound Design: Nirvana Films
Music Arrangers: Rupert Fernandes/Anandh Ranganathan



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Category: Television & Cinema
Award: Silver
Ad: "Presence"
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai
Client: Neo Sports Broadcast Pvt Ltd
Chief Creative Officer: Piyush Pandey
Group Creative Director: Sagar Mahabaleshwarkar
Associate Creative Director: Ramamurthy S
Copywriters: Ramamurthy S/Vinod Sudheer/Gururaj Rao/Sweta Ghorawat
Agency Producer: Deepa Limaye
Production Company: Nirvana Films, Bangalore
Executive Producer: Mekala Krishnaswamy
Producer: Mekala Krishnaswamy
Director: Prakash Varma
Director of Photography: PS Vinod/Tassaduq
Editor: Sally Salgaonkar
Sound Design Company: Famous Studios - Darshan VG, Mumbai
Sound Design: Nirvana Films
Music Arrangers: Rupert Fernandes/Anandh Ranganathan

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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Not Hot Enough: ETC Dress Circle Pia Trivedi Ad

VJ Pia TrivediDelhi Times reports/advertises that the ad for model-VJ Pia Trivedi's new show on ETC channel, Dress Circle, is "too hot to handle."

And the Censor Board has asked for cuts in the promo (to be shown in cinema theatres) as they were "too hot and daring" and even post the cuts it would be released "only in theatres running films with an 'A' ccertificate."

Obviously, I got curious and decided to have a look at the "hot" ad and was disappointed to find it a bit damp.

Sexy yes but unhandleably hot? Definitely not.


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Edgy!
Sexy!
Hardcore!
Prepare to be a part of my circle...
Dress Cirlce
Under Bollywood's skin!
Circle of movies...
With me Pia
Every Friday
Only on ETC
Every Friday 7:30 PM


Pia Trivedi in ETC Dress Cirlce promo photo gallery:



If you want to watch a really hot ad for a TV show have a look at this: Hot Ad for India's Hottest.

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Friday, November 07, 2008

Young Salman and Lime n Lemony Limca

Salman Khan did a bit of modelling (like many other Bollywood stars) before making it big on the big screen. I remember having a poster of Salman in a bike advertisement (cant recall which).

This is a very young Salman (though he still doesn't look his age) playing football and quenching his thirst with some lime and lemony Limca.


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Who can forget his first victory?
Limca with isotonic salts to quench your thrist


Fun time Limca time
Young time Limca time
Masti time Limca time
Lime n Lemony Limca

Who can forget his first love?
Togetherness with lime n lemoni Limca

Fun time...

Who can forget his first journey?
Safely travel with zero bacteria Limca

Fun time...
Limca Limca


Catchy tune? Catch it for your mobile






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