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Friday, April 6, 2007

Cadbury Camp

Its not hard to guess that its the same guy who sang "Can you feel the love tonight" song in Lion King. His gay-ish charms are hard to miss... :) Its none other than Elton John who also dedicated the song "Candle in the Wind" to the Late Princess Diana.

Volvic Ad

Via: Flixya

'Bombay' theme is used for this ad's background scoring and features Zidane. Ad is in French.

Now who would have even guessed that AR Rahman would lend this Bombay Theme music for something like "Mineral Water"? It might as well feature Zindane or any other celebrity but the product in question is not commensurate with the emotional value of background scoring.....

Mourning for Founding Father

On the demise of Tribhuvandas Patel... Not only the entire co-operative at Anand but the entire nation mourned.... In this Ad you see Dimples in black garb mourning Patel's death.

Fevicol - Bus Ad

From Ad guru,Piyush Pandey's repertoire won India, the Cannes festival in 2002.

The Ad Film Maker for this piece was none other than his brother Prasoon Pandey.

"Q. As a filmmaker, do you look up to somebody as a mentor? Has there been somebody who has influenced your current style of filmmaking?

A. I admire Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock and Kieslowski. Woody Allen tries the demented/eccentric comedy route without being too slapstick. It’s vastly different from the Charlie Chaplin type of comedy. Not that I don’t admire Charlie Chaplin. While Charlie had a set of sequences in his comedy, Allen uses a style that is rather weird and surprises viewers when they least expect it. ................."

Read more about the kid brother here.