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Asian Paints unveils ‘Mera Wala Mood’ Diwali campaign
Mumbai: Asian Paints, a name synonymous with vibrant homes and special moments, has launched a heartwarming campaign for the upcoming Festival of Lights. The ‘Mera Wala Mood’ campaign is a beautiful concept that embodies the essence of Diwali and explores the deep connection between emotions, colours, and homes, featuring a delightful tech intervention.
Being a pioneer in the décor space, Asian Paints owns the emotion of home more powerfully than any other brand in India. Their corporate ethos, ‘Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai’ is timeless and the brand has a rich history of creating iconic campaigns that beautifully explore and narrate the relationship between home and their residents. The storytelling in their ads, like the Mera Wala series, resonates deeply with the audience and has touched a million hearts.
Extending the ‘Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai’ thought, the new tech-integrated ‘Mera Wala Mood’ campaign conceptualised by Ogilvy, carries forward this tradition with a new level of emotional depth.
At its heart, “Mera Wala Mood” is driven by a simple thought: while festivals are times of joy and celebration, they also evoke a myriad of emotions for various reasons. The campaign celebrates the idea that our homes are more than just structures; they are living extensions of our moods and emotions and support the person through all the various moods that they experience during the festive season. Through the technological intervention of a face scanner, this insight comes to life.
When consumers use their phone camera to scan their face on the Mera Wala Mood microsite, the technology skillfully captures the viewer’s expression and mood. Based on their mood, a specific colour is associated with their emotion, and a personalised film is unveiled. Each film reveals a unique home setting, beautifully adorned with Diwali-related décor elements of colour that represent the viewer’s mood. For instance, if a viewer displays a happy expression, the filter showcases a room bathed in festive and joyous yellow tones, accompanied by a corresponding poem.
Each film features an individual poem that elevates the chosen colour and the emotion it embodies. These poems, gracefully narrated by the legendary Piyush Pandey, breathe life into the diverse range of emotions experienced during the festive season. This tech-savvy style not only engages the audience but also helps to communicate the connection between emotions, colours, and homes in a unique and deep way.
Asian Paints Ltd CEO and MD Amit Syngle said, “While Diwali brings great joy and delightful surprises, it also unveils a spectrum of mixed bitter-sweet emotions, all for various reasons. These diverse emotions are experienced in every home, making it a living canvas of colours and sentiments reflecting the unique essence of the beings that reside in them. This is the very essence of our long-standing corporate message Har Ghar Kuch Kehta Hai, which continues to resonate in our Diwali campaign this year. Our homes truly tell stories about us, our moods, and our emotions, and #MeraWalaMood seeks to celebrate this beautiful narrative. The campaign is here to give consumers a warm and positive feeling and shares a series of heartfelt films and poems that leave the viewer with wholesome, feel-good emotions.”
Ogilvy India CCO Sukesh Nayak said, “#MeraWalaMood has a simple human insight at its core – Even though festivals are happy times, due to various reasons, we experience many other moods too. And, at the end of the day, it is our homes that take care of all our moods. This insight led to an interactive idea, to make personalised ads for every mood. This vision was brought alive with a face scanner that accurately scans a face – from the squint of the eyes to the folds on the forehead, to reveal the mood. The mood is then revealed by a film that showcases the corner of a home in the colour that represents the viewer’s mood.”
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.
