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Interactive Avenues to handle A23 Games’ digital media duties
Mumbai: A reprise network company, Interactive Avenues, and the digital arm of Mediabrands India, have won the digital media duties for A23 Games. The account will be led out of the agency’s Bengaluru office.
A23 Games is India’s leading multi-gaming platform with 16+ years of experience in the online skill-based gaming industry.
With a goal of expanding A23’s reach across the country and establishing online gaming as a source of entertainment, Interactive Avenues’ mandate for A23 Games includes online brand building, social media management, content development, and digital activations.
Interactive Avenues EVP (south) Aparna Tadikonda said, “We are delighted to add another marquee brand and an industry leader like A23 Games to our clientele. The online gaming sector is booming, and A23 Games has played a pioneering role, since its inception over 16 years ago, in catapulting India to the second position in the world. Their “Responsible Gaming” campaign with superstar Shahrukh Khan has already raised the content bar, and we are truly excited to leverage our media expertise and creative prowess to not only elevate A23 Games’ digital game but also to help realise their vision of making India an online gaming powerhouse.”
Interactive Avenues is India’s leading full-service digital marketing company with offices in Mumbai (headquarters), Gurugram, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Kolkata. They offer a comprehensive range of cutting-edge services, including media, programmatic, data & analytics, e-commerce, paid search, social media, SEO, ORM, creative, and web development, all under one roof with fluid, multidisciplinary teams.
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Fevicol releases its last ad campaign by the late Piyush Pandey
The adhesive brand’s last campaign by the late advertising legend Piyush Pandey turns an everyday Indian obsession into a quietly powerful metaphor
MUMBAI: Fevicol has never needed much of a plot. A sticky bond, a wry observation, a truth that every Indian instantly recognises — that has always been enough. “Kursi Pe Nazar,” the brand’s latest television commercial, is no different. And yet it carries a weight that no previous Fevicol film has had to bear: it is the last one its creator, the advertising legend Piyush Pandey, will ever make.
The film, released on Tuesday by Pidilite Industries, fixes its gaze on the kursi — the chair — and what it means in Indian life. Not just as a piece of furniture, but as a currency of ambition, a vessel of authority, and a source of quiet social drama that plays out in every home, office and institution across the country. Who sits in the chair, who waits for it, and who eyes it hungrily from across the room: the film transforms this sharply observed cultural truth into a narrative that is, in the best Fevicol tradition, funny, warm and instantly familiar.
The campaign was Pandey’s idea. He discussed it in detail with the team before his death, but did not live to see it shot. Prasoon Pandey, director at Corcoise Films who helmed the commercial, said the team needed five months to find its footing before they felt ready to shoot. “This was the toughest film ever for all of us,” he said. “It was Piyush’s idea, magical as always.”
The emotional weight of that responsibility was not lost on the team at Ogilvy India, which created the campaign. Kainaz Karmakar and Harshad Rajadhyaksha, group chief creative officers at Ogilvy India, described the process as “a pilgrimage of sorts, on the path that Piyush created not just for Ogilvy, but for our entire profession.”
Sudhanshu Vats, managing director of Pidilite Industries, said the film was rooted in a distinctly Indian insight. “The ‘kursi’ symbolises aspiration, transition, and ambition,” he said. “Piyush Pandey had an extraordinary ability to elevate such everyday observations into iconic storytelling for Fevicol. This film carries that legacy forward.”
That legacy is considerable. Over several decades, Pandey’s partnership with Fevicol produced some of the most beloved advertising in Indian history, building the brand into something rare: a household name that people actively enjoy watching sell to them.
“Kursi Pe Nazar” does not try to be a tribute. It simply tries to be a great Fevicol film. By most measures, it succeeds — which is, in the end, the most fitting send-off of all.
