Ad Campaigns
Amitabh Bachchan turns uber cool grandpa for Lloyd smart LED TV
MUMBAI: After the tremendous success of the AC campaign this year, Lloyd, a part of Havells India Ltd has launched a new TV commercial for LED TVs featuring Amitabh Bachchan as the uber-cool grandpa.
Conceptualised by RK Swamy BBDO, the new ad campaign primarily aims to highlight the new-age features of Lloyd LED TV.
The role of the TV has certainly undergone a significant change in the Indian households as it’s not only restricted to family members squabbling over their choice of channel or show or about the entire family sitting around the TV to catch the new episode. Through this new ad campaign, the company aims at connecting with the new-age internet generation, who may not be watching TV in a conventional way, but spend a lot of time on entertainment by consuming internet content, which they can now access through their Lloyd smart LED TV.
The TVC tells the story of a cool grandpa and his grandson Chintu. The film opens with Chintu entering the house with his sweet, bubbly girlfriend played by Aneri Vajani, a popular face on the television. As the friendly Dadu introduces himself to the new guest, the girl is enamoured by this tech-savvy, cool grandpa who can do amazing things like screen mirroring pics from his phone on the TV, sending an email using the Qwerty TV remote, and even accessing social media through his Lloyd LED smart TV.
The light-hearted film, where Bachchan demonstrates all the cool features of his Lloyd TV with evident pride, ends with hitting off with the girl on a friendly note of becoming her Facebook friend, and in the process, side-lining his grandson.
Havells India vice president of marketing Amit Tiwari says, “The consumer behaviour, especially of the younger generation, is constantly evolving and becoming an extension of the smartphone. We believe that our smart TVs act as an enabler in bringing family and friends closer and drive bonding by tapping into the evolution of technology in television viewing.”
The ad is being aired across Hindi and English news channels, English and Hindi movie channels, and infotainment channels. Also, it will be aired in around 500 leading cinema halls across India during the screening of blockbuster movies Race 3 and Sanju.
NATIONAL: Amazon Ads has laid out a sharply tech-led vision for the advertising industry in 2026, arguing that artificial intelligence, streaming TV and creator partnerships will combine to turn brand building into a more precise, performance-driven business.
At the heart of the shift, the company says, is the fusion of AI with Amazon’s vast trove of shopping, browsing and streaming signals, allowing advertisers to move beyond blunt reach metrics to campaigns designed around real customer behaviour.
“The future of advertising is not about reaching more people, but the right people with messages that resonate,” said Amazon Ads India head and vice president Girish Prabhu. “By combining AI with deep customer insights, we help brands move from broadcasting campaigns to having meaningful conversations wherever audiences spend their time.”
One of the biggest changes, according to Amazon Ads, will be the collapse of the wall between media planning and creative development. Retail media, powered by first-party data, is increasingly shaping everything from brand discovery to final purchase, pushing marketers to design campaigns around audience insight rather than internal instinct.
AI is also moving from a support tool to a creative engine. Agentic AI, which automates and accelerates production, is expected to make high-quality creative accessible even to small businesses, compressing weeks of work into hours and giving challengers the ability to compete with larger brands on speed and scale.
Behind the scenes, AI-driven analytics will take on a bigger role in campaign optimisation, identifying patterns, spotting opportunities and recommending actions that would previously have required teams of analysts.
Streaming TV is another big battleground. With India’s video streaming audience now above 600 million and connected TV users at 129.2 million in 2025, advertisers are set to treat streaming not just as a branding channel but as a performance engine, measured increasingly by sales, sign-ups and bookings rather than just reach.
Finally, Amazon Ads sees creators and contextual advertising reshaping how brands tell stories. Creators will act less like influencers and more like long-term partners, while scene-aware ads on streaming platforms will allow brands to insert hyper-relevant offers into the flow of what viewers are watching.
Taken together, Amazon Ads argues, these shifts mark a move towards advertising that is both more human and more measurable, where AI handles the complexity, and creativity does the persuading.
