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Arshad Warsi says ‘Aish Karo’ via CashKaro this Diwali
Mumbai: For this Diwali, cashback & coupons site CashKaro has launched the #CashKaroAishKaro campaign in association with Actor Arshad Warsi, which depicts how the homegrown app helps shoppers save on their online shopping.
Additionally, CashKaro has released four spoof ads featuring scenes from popular Bollywood films such as “Phir Hera Pheri,” “Golmaal,” and “Dabbang” showcasing how consumers stand to gain this festive season by using the app for their shopping.
The app promises shoppers that all they have to do is simply go to CashKaro first and then visit their favourite shopping site and avail cashback on every online shopping via the app over and above sale discounts, which they can then transfer to their bank account.
The film shows the actor walk onto what seems like a normal film set to shoot an ad, but as he reads out the script loud he finds it incredulous and hard to believe, leading him to demand to know “ye kaun log hain, muft mein paise kaun deta hain??”
As he reads the script further he exclaims “Aish Karo” in place of CashKaro, giving a funny twist to the ad.
CashKaro also released four spoof ads featuring scenes from popular Hindi movies by putting a clever spin on these recognisable scenes.
The spoof films aim to depict that the app’s cashback scheme is so easy to get that even these popular Bollywood characters are talking about it. Taking on memorable film scenes for comedic recreations garnered a positive response from the app’s audience, the brand said.
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Abhay Duggal joins JioStar as director of Hindi GEC ad sales
The streaming giant brings in a seasoned revenue hand as the battle for Hindi television advertising heats up
MUMBAI: Abhay Duggal has a new desk, and JioStar has a new weapon. The media and entertainment veteran has joined JioStar as director of entertainment ad sales for Hindi general entertainment channels, adding 17 years of hard-won revenue experience to one of India’s most powerful broadcasting operations.
Duggal is no stranger to big portfolios or bruising markets. Before joining JioStar, he spent a brief stint at Republic World as deputy general manager and north regional head for ad sales. Before that, he put in three years at Enterr10 Television, where he ran the north region for Dangal TV and Dangal 2, two of India’s leading free-to-air Hindi channels. The north alone accounted for more than 50 per cent of total channel revenue on his watch, a number that tends to get attention in any sales meeting.
His longest stint was at Zee Entertainment Enterprises, where he spent over six years rising to associate director of sales. There he commanded the Hindi movies cluster across seven channels, owned more than half of north India’s revenue across flagship properties including Zee TV and &TV, and closed marquee sponsorships across the Indian Premier League, Zee Rishtey Awards and Dance India Dance. He also handled monetisation for the English movies and entertainment cluster and the global news channel WION, a portfolio that would stretch most sales teams twice his size.
Earlier in his career Duggal closed what was then a Rs 3 crore single deal at Reliance Broadcast Network, one of the largest in Indian radio at the time, before that he helped launch and monetise JAINHITS, India’s first HITS-based cable and satellite platform.
His edge, by his own account, lies in marrying data and instinct: translating audience trends, inventory signals and client demands into long-term partnerships built on cost-per-rating-point discipline rather than short-term deal chasing. In a media landscape being reshaped by streaming, fragmented attention and AI-driven advertising, that kind of rigour is increasingly rare and increasingly valuable.
JioStar, which blends the scale of Reliance’s Jio platform with the content firepower of Star, is doubling down on its advertising business at precisely the moment the Hindi GEC market is getting more competitive. Bringing in someone who has spent nearly two decades doing exactly this, across some of India’s most watched channels, is a pointed statement of intent. Duggal has spent his career turning audiences into revenue. JioStar is clearly betting he can do it again, and bigger.
