Google Reading Entertainment for Teens: April 2014

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Top 5 creative advertisements 2014 : I'm loving it

Over the years Indian Television industry produced some of the most amazing and memorable advertisements. The goal of any advertisements is to create and market the awareness of the brand among the viewers and catch their attention.

Some ads were popular because the ideas were so funny, some because of their catchy jingles, presentation, characters and visuals. These ads became part of our lives. At times these ads told us stories, made us shed tears, and even encouraged us to buy a product.

Some ads still make us nostalgic and take us to past memories like Nirma washing powder, Bajaj Scooter commercial, Pepsi dil maange more commercial, Fevicol commercials and most recently IPL6 commerical Dil Jumping Japang.

This year as well, so far there have been number of commercials aired on Indian television. With this post, I'm listing down "My top 5 picks" - the most funny and creative ads aired thus so far this year.

These are the 5 most catchy commercials that I have liked with no specific order. It is difficult to pick just 4 out of so many. However, the criteria is to list those ads that makes you laugh irrespective of number of time you watch it, has to be on the list.

1. No Ullu Banaoing - Ullu mat banao:
No Ullu banana is new Idea! This is the essence of new campaign promoted by Idea network. The advertisement highlights the power of mobile internet over idea network. This ad offers a simple solution to a larger problem.

There are series of ads on this No Ullu banaoing theme by Idea.





2. Vodafone Music  - Road trip Journey:
Vodafone India has launched a campaign to promote its music video apps. The commercial features a family of 6 on a road trip in their van. The commercial has four flavors.

In the first one, the man and his wife argues about the female lead in a particular Bollywood number. The man claims it is Katrina whereas the wife says it is Kareena. The boy then downloads the song. As it turns out it was neither Katrina nor Kareena but Deepika Padukone. The young boy and his sister break into laughter.



The second one, The grandfather tries to placate his angry wife. He manages to do so by playing a Bollywood song using the app.

Third one, The young boy is in a hurry to reach a nearby petrol pump with a rest room. He is so desperate to relieve himself and so urges his father who is at the wheels. His sister plays a devotional song 'Itni Shakti hame dena daata' to make fun of him using the app. At last, when they reach at the petrol pump, the young boy is frustrated even more as the toilet is locked.

Fourth one, the girl asks her grandfather about the song he is listening over headphone. Grandfather refuses to answer. The girl then removes the headphone cord from the device. To everyone's surprise, the grandfather was listening to 'Munni Badnaam hui' song which makes everyone laugh.

3. Center Fruit - Kaisi Jeebh Laplapayee

The South Indian restaurant owner is hiring the best waiter who can announce the dishes in the most creative manner.

Center fruit chewing gum comes to his rescue. A very hilarious and funny commercial I must say.




4. Dr Fixit - Angry Kid

A man walks into a room yawning and sees his son drawing on wall. He shouts, "Bittoo, mummy ne bola tha naa deewarein kharab mat karna."

Some other dialogue follows and at last this is how the angry kid gave it back -

He turns to his father with anger and says, "Aap se bhi Shukla uncle ne kaha tha bangla banvate samay Dr. Fixit se waterproofing zaroor karva lena."


Mentos Cola - Dimag Ki Batti Jala De ad

A Young guy spots a friend and calls out to him and asks him, “Manoj, Idhar Kya Kar Raha Hai? Picture Dekhne Aaya Hai Kya?” 


The guy’s friend and his female companion get stunned and looks at him speechless at the stupid question asked by him. Other audiences in the cinema hall have the same reaction as the guy’s friend. Film proceeds with silence break when one of the people from audience starts clapping and others join the applause.
The ad concludes with a Mentos cola popping out of nowhere and going directly into the guy’s mouth and a frame that introduces ‘Cola Mentos, with tagline Dimag ki batti jalade’.



Put in your comments if you too liked these or the one you liked most is not listed here.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Little known interesting facts about some of popular Indian celebs

Little known interesting facts about some of the Indian celebrities -

1. Mahatma Gandhi -
We can see in all Indian currencies, Gandhiji’s facial image being printed. The Smiling Gandhiji is very popular among the countrymen. Many of us think that image is a drawn picture. But, in fact it was a photo shot and picturised in 1946 by an unknown photographer. The original photo is displayed here. In the original photo Gandhiji smiles to some person nearby. That hollow smile picture had been developed into a mirror image and then the same has been imaged in the Indian Rupee currencies.

Picture 1: Gandhiji is with Frederic Pethic Lawrence, who was then British secretary for India and Burma. The photo was shot at the former Viceroy House, Which is now the Rashtrapathy Bhavan.    
Picture 2: The mirror image of the original picture    
Picture 3. The image taken from the picture is being printed in the Rupee Currency notes    
Picture 4, 5. The picture of Gandhiji is being used in the currencies.


2. Lal Bahadur Shastri - He took a loan from the government to buy a car and when he died some installments were still left.

3. Subhash chandra Bose - Netaji  refused to obey the prohibition to carry his umbrella while meeting the Governor General at his office in Kolkata after being successful in Indian Civil Services (ICS) examination. It was then a traditional dignity to carry the umbrella for every Bengali gentleman. When the Governor General objected to this, asking him to explain his behavior, he dared to put the umbrella around the neck of British Governor General and warn him to mind his behavior.

4. Amitabh Bachchan - Sunil Dutt signed him for a mute's role in Reshma Aur Shera because of a letter of introduction from then PM Indira Gandhi to friend Nargis.

5. Lata Mangeshkar - In a shocking state of controversies, the gentle, shy and soft spoken Lata did was in the news once again but for different reasons. She was allegedly romantic linked to noted musician Bhupen Hazarika. In a shocking statement to Zee News, the late musician's estranged wife had stated that the two would spend nights together and her husband apparently told her that if a musicians wants to come up, he has to have his songs sung by Lata Mangeshkar. This statement is said to have enraged Hazarika's partner Kalpana Lajmi and all the Mangeshkars. As per reports in the media, it was Lata didi's alleged decade long love affair with the late Raj Singh Dungapur that came to light. He was the son of royalty and he had apparently promised his parents that he would not bring home a commoner bride. It is said that the duo met in Mumbai when Raj Singh Dungapur ended up playing cricket with Lata didi's brother at their Walkeshwar house. They came from different backgrounds and maybe those things were not allowed in those days, as commitment to families came first. Though the two remained unmarried, this itself was proof of their eternal love, if stories of their true love are anything to go by.

6. Sachin Tendulkar -  In 1990, while returning from the tour of England at the age of 17, Sachin met his wife Anjali for the first time at the Mumbai airport.  Sachin's father-in-law is a seven-time national bridge champion.

7. Narendra Modi -
Modi loves writing poetry during his leisure time and also has published some of books written by him. He also loves photography and had held one exhibition showcasing his collections of photographs clicked by him.

8. Rajesh Khanna-
He was selected through a talent hunt organized by Filmfare and United Producers in 1965. This was long before television was popular in India - forget reality television.

9. Salman Khan -
Salman was offered Baazigar by Abbas-Mustan, but turned down the film after the makers refused to accommodate changes suggested by his father Salim Khan. The role went to Shahrukh Khan. Sallu said in an interview in 2007, “If I had done Baazigar, then there would be no Mannat standing in Bandstand today.”

10. Virat Kohli - Virat has said that his first crush was none other than the famous bollywood actress Karishma Kapoor.
                                                                                                                                  
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Zara Hat ke - Yeh Duniya hai Gajab

Today while reading some news papers the below mentioned news caught my attention. I just couldn't resist saying 'Yeh Duniya hai Gajab'

They say love is blind and have no boundaries. Person who is in love doesn't really care about age, cast/religion and even gender. Well, what else can prove this going by what happened last month in London.

A British woman Amanda Rodgers, 47, and her dog Sheba married in a beautiful ceremony attended by 200 guests in Croatia.

The ceremony ended with a kiss. Amanda said her new life partner was never unkind to her and the dog is always happy.
Amanda with Sheba



"Sheba had been in my life for years, making me laugh and comforting me when I was feeling low," she said. "I couldn't think of anything more I'd need from a life partner."





This is quite unusual, isn't it? On a funny note, one good thing is she does no have to file a divorce in case they (?) decides to separate.

Friday, April 11, 2014

Taarak mehta ka ooltah chashmah - Stop doing movie promotions please!

Neela Telefilm's popular and successful Indian sitcom Taarak mehta ka ooltah chashmah has so far aired 1385 episodes on SAB TV as of April 10th. Thanks to powerful storyline and its talented wonderful star cast, the show has been immensely successful among all Hindi viewers of different age groups.

I have watched all the episodes till date. The characters Jethalal and Bhide are my favorite among the entire star cast.

It has always been a very popular show with very good TRP ratings all along.  Again the reason being powerful narration and work of very talented actors like Dilip Joshi and Disha Vakani. However the show off late has disappointed me a bit. The show has become a platform for the movie makers for advertising an upcoming Hindi movie. As an ardent viewer, I would rather love to watch them producing new set of stories than watching an episode that is being made to promote a movie or a movie star.

To put the things into perspective, have a look at the list below:

Ranbir Kapoor visited the show's sets to promote Barfi. In fact, the story ran for a week to accommodate Ranbir in the plot and to promote his movie.

Then it was his cousin Kareena Kapoor's turn to promote Heroine. She was followed by Paresh Rawal, who promoted OMG Oh My God! Here too, it was not just one episode but the plot was adjusted accordingly.

Sometime ago, Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan had promoted Bol Bachchan on the show. Incidentally, Sharman Joshi and Boman Irani also spent six hours with the cast of Taarak while promoting Ferrari Ki.
Salman khan is a regular on the show.

Hritik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra came on the show to promote movie Krrish3. Jaadu arrives in Gokuldham society on a spaceship by the radio frequency attracted by the antique radio bought by Atmaram Bhide. Like always, all the families of Gokuldham got together to find the reason for these radio signals.

This week, It is Amitabh on the show promoting his upcoming movie Bhootnath.

There have been others like Jimmy Shergill, Tushaar Kapoor, Dharmendra to name few.

I guess it is Ok if the producers of this show tweak the plot script to accommodate a movie promotion once in two months or something of the sort. Repeated such promotions will only get their TRP down. Like I mentioned, a viewer would love to watch episodes on day to day life of Gokuldham families.

What say, Guys?