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Saatchi & Saatchi creates new TVC for Skoda Laura
Mumbai: Saatchi & Saatchi has launched a new television commercial for Skoda Laura RS, the new addition to the Rally Sports legacy in Skoda portfolio.
The TVC is based on the insight that men find a game of speed irresistible.
Saatchi & Saatchi chief creative officer Ramanuj Shastry said, “Power and performance in a car being a huge turn on for men is a well known fact. We dramatised this fact by having our leading lady use the aphrodisiac quality of ‘the smell of burning rubber‘ to be more attractive to men. The film is more refreshing visually at least than a stereotypical male racing the car around town.”
The 30-second TVC opens to showcase a hip club in a big city. The car enters the frame and stops just outside the club. To the surprise of the waiting crowd, the car revs up again and performs powerful stunts before coming to a stop once again. An attractive woman then gets off the driver‘s side and dabs on the burnt rubber on her neck. She walks towards the club confident of her irresistible attractiveness, all thanks to smell of the burnt rubber.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
