Its a time to recall those commercials which keep popping up in my head every now and then and make me....
Kya aap closeup karte haiiii???
And remember this one Pepsi ad which had an animated macchar chillin in a glass of Pepsi singing.."kabhi maan mein nahi socha tha aisa bhi din aayega pani mein aag lagegi pathar bhi pighal jayega...jeekhoooo woohooo tum se aacha kaun hain!"
The master card ad..."Realising you are unzipped before anyone else does. PRICELESS!"
How can i forget the surf ad which got me into big trouble as a kid, becoz in my project of replicating the ad i threw surf all over the house..."Surf ki dhulai jagam-magai!" (Me wid a lisp)
The oldest ever pepsi ad with Aamir, Mahima Chowdhary and Aishwariya....the one in which Ash says.."Hi am Sanjana"..in the end and Aamir dives out of his nth floor window to bring the pretty lady a bottle of pepsi! aaah...yeh dil mange more!
Amul chocolates...which went like (as far as i think)..."I am too old for baloons and young for miss cartoon but i think u r just right for Amul chocolates!"
The Cadbury Dairy Milk Ad which the "ting ting ting ting ting ting ting ting" music and the cricketer hits a six...almost gets caught but not...n then his girl dances on the field!
Also the Cadbury's Rakhi ads.
The horlicks ad representing the kids of Gen X..."bal katenge beckham banenge...epang opang jhopang"
Oooh also one of those very annoying and whiney ads..."Ajanta toothbrush papa ka, mummy ka"....and it went on and on until it covered every possible member of d family.
One of the ads no one would no...it was a durgapuja special Coke ad in bengali which had this sweet lil love story acted out in it. (I remember the entire song...cnt blv myself)
The Bacardi rum ad...eeee..."be wht u wanna be...takin things the way they come...."
Nescafe ad..."papparapa parapa....Nescafe!"
The old Indica ad..."Baby i'd love you to want, the way that want u..."
Yes, of course the highly annoying..."i love you Rasna" ads!
The Nerolac paint ad.."Jab ghar ki raunak badhani hooo"
There was also some ad which am forgettin was for what brand but i think some suiting with Sunil Gavaskar in it n it was ancient.
Action ka light system wala shoes...it had kapil dev in it.
Amul ice cream..."sair to bas bahana hai papa ko kulfi jo khana hai!"
I used to love this very old pepsi(i think) ad with Sachin and Kambli..it had something bout them writing letters to their girlfriends. it was really cute.
Oh also....S Kumars...somethings bout some dadji and his birthday!"
The extremely vexing whisper ads which have changed drastically over the years and thank god for that! We still need a condom revolution...the ads are pretty disgusting and slimy most of the times(In their subtle attempts of course!)
My recent favorite....the new horlicks ad with the Chowmein obsessed kid!
K this is an endless list so i shall just finish with one of the most popular and my favorite...
"doodh doodh doodh doodh...wonderful doodh...garmi dalo doodh mein ice doosh ban gaya very nice"( wid the very funky glasses!)
p.s- surely am forgetting many more and some of my most favorites!
This made for extremely good reading. Even I recalled that most of the ads you had mentioned were my favourite ones too, and these were the ones I had grown up with.
ReplyDeleteHowever I would like to point out a small correction.
The Action shoe ad ( "joote mein hai light"...) featured Sachin Tendulkar, and not Kapil Dev, with all of his boyish face ( he still hadnt even a proper moustache ) and was probably his first ad ( followed by the gillete blades ad )
great post.there must be someplace out there from where we can download all of these ads.the Gavaskar ad was Dinesh suitings I guess....all pepsi ads are great.I fondly remember that one in which amitabh and sachin fly kites.awesome.
ReplyDeleteI cant help but add a few of my current personal favourite ones.
ReplyDeleteThe first one that comes to my mind is the Motorola ad which features Abhishek bachchan trying to get smart with a couple of young girls in a pub. The expression on his face when the girls start admiring his phone is really worth watching. That was the second time I admired his acting skills following his performance in "Sarkar".
Also I dont know if you remember the Ericsson mobile ad ( it was only Ericsson at that time, not Sony Ericsson ) in which a woman keeps talking on her mobile in a rataurant, and the man sitting infront of her thinks she is actually talking to her, and goes up quite enthusiastically to talk to her, only to find she was talking on her cell and she orders for one black coffee. Even here, the look on the man's face at that moment was extremely apt, and the faint sound of glass breaking in the background was very symbolic.
As far as pepsi and coke ads are concerned, they used to be extremely well-made previously, and made for good entertainment ( especially the Aamir Khan series in which he played a bihari, then a typical Hyderabadi Muslim, etc. ) but now both Pepsi and Coke seems to taking leave of their senses, and features extremely stupid and trash ads. The latest Coke ad, featuring Aamir Khan serving coke in a train, and then belching is disgusting to say the least.
And somebody please ask the Big B to stop. He has taken leave of his senses, and features in almost all "local" and "ewwww" ads, Boroplus, Red Eveready, and then Navratna hair oil ! I can understand Govinda endorsing that, but the big B?...c'mon.
Is there anything he doesnt want to endorse? Tomorrow you give him Ganesh beedi or Relaxo chappals...and he will readily endorse that too....provided you pay him a hefty amount !
oh my god i remember the ericson add, it was soo cool. i love u for addin tht. N u r right bout mr. bacchan he has lost it completely. But How cn we all forget the bestest add ever......"Betaaa swater pehan lo!" the polo add!
ReplyDeleteyou forgot many, including "dhara dhara shuddh dhara...Ramu kaka.. jalebi" and "sehat hai jiski ye dunia usi ki, sundrop ki dunia me sehat sabhi kiiii" :)
ReplyDeleteBtw vry nice collection :)