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Mars Wrigley Stirs Up Nostalgia With The Launch Of New BOOMER® Campaign
We know it for its iconic tune. We love it for its taste and the ‘Boom’. We have grown up seeing its ad campaigns on television, and now, it is back in an all new avatar!
BOOMER®, India’s oldest and most beloved bubblegum brand, is back with the unforgettable BOOM BOOM BOOMER tune in a series of new TVCs. With a history of over 25 years, BOOMER® from Mars Wrigley, is loved for the sweet taste of nostalgia and is a favorite across generations. The three TVCs capture the wacky and humorous essence of the brand, bringing to life the tag line, BOOM MACHA DE, through comical hyperboles. With a common theme of exaggerated humor, which is ‘stretched’ like a bubblegum, each film is playful and funny and promises to make the viewers smile with the over-the-top reactions.
The first film captures two young siblings looking gloomily at their dead pet fish in a fishbowl. While the elder sibling is chewing BOOMER®, he pops a bubble that causes the dead fish to come back to life. The film ends with a voice over saying, ‘Boom Macha De’.
The second film shows a young boy watching a mythology-based show, with his grandfather while chewing BOOMER®. He is visibly bored and blows a bubble to the ‘BOOM BOOM BOOMER’ tune and when the bubble pops, the bald grandfather suddenly grows a thick mane of hair. In the third film, a muscular guy in a village akhada is flexing his muscles in the mirror. While he is admiring his strong biceps, he blows on a bubble that grows bigger and bigger to the signature BOOMER® tune but as soon as the bubble pops, his muscles deflate and droop down. This leaves him shocked while the film ends with the voice over ‘BOOM MACHA DE’.
Talking about the Boomer relaunch and the new TVC campaign, Mr. Yogesh Tewari, Marketing Director, Mars Wrigley, said, “BOOMER® has, over the years, become a favorite for our consumers in India. With this relaunch, we aim to build the gum category relevance for in-home consumption through the day, which also reflects in the execution of our films – morning, afternoon and evenings. With the tag line of ‘BOOM MACHA DE’ and the famous ‘BOOM BOOM BOOMER’ tune being centered on the concept of nostalgia, we are confident that our consumers will enjoy the films as much as they love the product. Mars Wrigley enjoys a loyal fanbase and with these light-hearted films, we hope to celebrate the love and joy associated with the brand.”
Talking about the films, Rahul Mathew, National Creative Director, DDB Mudra Group said, “It’s not always that you work on a brand that has such strong and memorable associations. We wanted to make sure that our work reinforces these associations in a way that it appeals to today’s youngsters. And, of course, do it in a way that brings alive the fun and quirky nature of the brand.”
For a price of INR 1 per pack, consumers can taste and enjoy a priceless walk down the memory lane.
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IICT partners with Gativedhi to bring studio production tools to students
New MoU lets students explore AI-driven production pipelines for AVGC-XR
MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Creative Technologies (IICT) has teamed up with Gativedhi Technologies to give students a front-row seat to modern studio production. The collaboration will integrate Gativedhi’s AI-powered production intelligence platform, Shotrack, into academic programmes, letting students experience the workflow systems used by animation, VFX and gaming studios.
Under the MoU, faculty, students and researchers will get hands-on access to Shotrack through beta programmes, pilot deployments and academic evaluations. This will allow them to explore simulated production pipelines, understand asset management, track tasks and monitor schedules, essentially seeing how complex projects come together behind the scenes.
Shotrack is designed to tackle a key industry challenge: when multiple studios work on the same project, differing internal systems often create bottlenecks, slow approvals and complicate version control. The platform provides a unified production environment, enabling smoother collaboration across distributed teams while generating operational insights and predictive analytics to optimise crew allocation, forecast schedule risks and manage costs.
The collaboration also opens doors to Gativedhi’s wider ecosystem. Upcoming tools include StudioTrack, for studio operations management covering budgeting, recruitment and IT infrastructure, and WorkTrack, which measures workflow efficiency and team productivity across industries.
IICT plans to embed these tools into programmes covering animation pipelines, VFX workflows, gaming production and media project management. Students will also benefit from guest lectures, masterclasses, workshops, internships and research projects that connect academic learning with real-world studio practices.
IICT CEO Vishwas Deoskar, said the partnership provides “An environment where production pipeline tools can be explored, tested and refined while students gain insight into how large-scale productions are organised.”
Gativedhi Technologies founder & CEO Senthil Kumar added, “This collaboration introduces students to real-world studio management tools and helps us improve our platform with academic feedback.”
With Shotrack in classrooms, India’s future animators, VFX artists and gaming producers will get a taste of studio life long before they step into one.
