Monday, July 10, 2006

Ad world or Mad world?

Thanks to Sun TV, I am catching up with the ads in apna desh...There's one which irritates me to the core - HP Turbo Jet in which a petrol refill guy sings "Mileageeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"...Uff, I turned almost deaf thanks to the loud vocals...There's another stupid one - 3 Roses, I guess where a kid asks her mom "Innum oru vaarathukku yaar en mela anbu seluthuvaanga". Trust a 4 year old to talk like this...This is the bloody problem/shit we need to put up with when ads in hindi are translated to tamil. Come on folks, aren't there good dialogue writers who can understand the gist of non-tamil ads and translate the words appropriately?

There's a new reliance ad in which they show a guy giving missed calls to people incase he wants to speak to them and waits for the person to call him up. Hmm...good ad. It reminded me of a guy in Bangalore who used to do that. He used to give missed calls to our cellphone and we used to call him up. When teased about how stingy he was, he used to give us a crap that his Hutch Cellphone Connection feature is like that and it is prepaid for a year etc. When checked with Hutch, there was nothing like that...This guy is rich enough to afford calling up...I guess he wanted to continue being rich...I wish this guy sees this Ad and goes in for Reliance...Atleast it will save his friends money...


4 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

i dont have cable at home.. but the few occasions that i got to watch commercials in the US i liked a few of them.. i love the Southwest airlines add when one gets into an embarrassing situation and the ad pops up a msg saying -- wanna get away??

the recent ones that i like are AIG ad where the letters A,I and G performing a football stunt and the budweiser ad for the FIFA cup where a mexican wave is used to show a glass being filled by Bud beer

July 11, 2006 10:30 AM  
Blogger Ananya S P said...

Imsai iyer the 1st? Hey srini, whats happened 2 u? First it was chipotlefan, then srini.... and now imsaiiyer? Enna, vadivelu movie paarthu inspirationaa??

:)

July 11, 2006 10:58 AM  
Blogger Vinod Ramamoorthy said...

Its pay back time!! Imagine how many ARR tamil songs have been kola pannified :) ...

July 14, 2006 9:58 PM  
Blogger Ananya S P said...

Vinod: :) What can I say? I agree with you:)

July 14, 2006 10:23 PM  

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