"Signal Not Found"... I was getting frustrated... I have spent my whole weekend without watching television. I called Mohzam… "Yeh aaj theek kar dega? Cable-wale ko bula le bhai"... he with his broad smile replied back… "Birju bhaiya, aaj bulata hu unko" I was never bothered about he calling me 'Birju'... aise bhi Gandhi ji ne bola tha... "What’s there in a name?"… or was it Shakespeare??? kisi ne bhi bola ho... “What’s there in a name?” ;)
I was missing the MTV-Roadies action; new movie previews; T20 matches and a whole lot of new TV ads... Hmm... Let me count some of my favorite ads:
Sprite – Guy flirting with two girls;
IPL – Lady in the lift yelling @ seedha-saadha guy;
Mentos – Dadoo Tum? Donkey and Monkey;
Condom – Instead of Kabbadi;
Virgin Mobile – Daughter annoying the parents by stating…“mujhe ladkon mei interest nahi hai”
TV ads are generally made to promote product items and they may have a lasting effect on several thngs... I feel that good ads definitely have a higher product preference n purchase requests over other brands...
I remembered a funny incident while talking with one of my frnds about the effect of TV ads... There were these relatives of mine… They had a little boy and a teenage daughter… One nite they were cumin home after sum grocery and shoppin… Among othr things they bought sanitary napkins for the daughter; hiding the whole buying thing from this little boy… But being the nosy brat… he caught his sister sneaking out the packet and hiding the napkins… he began to demand n fight with his sister to see what is inside… Now since there were so many people around the girl was embarrassed … Eventually the packet tore lose and the brat grabbed one of the packs; had a look at them and just exclaimed loudly "Is this all you are hiding from me!!! I know what they do with them!!!"… Now everyone suddenly froze shuddering what to hear next!!! And the brat continued… "You just pour some ink on it and it becomes dry very soon!!!"
I know it's a funny incident; but all this sneaking around would have been avoided if people had not been conditioned to think of menses as a dirty thing or something to be ashamed of.
CHEERS !!!
1 comment:
Hmmm...couldnt resist commenting, mostly becos being a female and a bold one at that, I happen to have some anecdotes of my own. Which I will post in detail on my blogspot. But in short, I remember one incident while on summer vacation at my father's ancestral home in a relatively less developed town in Kerala.I was caught quite by surprise by the dreaded monthly ailment and obviously wasnt prepared by way of SN stocks.I sent out my kid brother to the local village medical shop with a chit containing the detailed description of the product I preferred.He was educated enough (by me of course) to know its general use.And both of us enjoyed a good laugh at his observation of the look on the face of the pharmacist!
Coming back to your blog, the ending was again a lil unexpected, sort of a moral this time, odd.
Cheers!
Rajani
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