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BBH India expands to Delhi
MUMBAI: The BBH network has launched its new office in Delhi to strengthen the agency’s presence in India. BBH’s first office in India, BBH India (Mumbai) launched in 2008.
The agency has named Shreekant Srinivasan as general manager, Vasudha Misra as executive creative director and Ankit Singh as strategy director to lead the Delhi office.
“The BBH brand has real momentum across Asia. The region is an increasingly important part of both our commercial and creative agenda. We see opening in Delhi as a natural next step and are excited by the opportunities that lie ahead,” said BBH global CEO Neil Munn.
“Delhi has become a very important market for our industry. Given the recent growth & success of our business, it felt like the right time to establish ourselves here. In Vasudha, Shreekant and Ankit, we believe we have the right kind of people that make the BBH brand anywhere in the world: tremendous talent & experience, but above all, integrity and honesty. I’m looking forward to working closely with them to establish the Blacksheep in this market,” BBH India CEO and managing partner Subhash Kamath added.
BBH India chief creative officer and managing partner Russell Barrett said: “Delhi is an exciting market, filled to the brim with amazing brands and opportunities, so why wait this long to open up? We absolutely had to find the right people. I’m really very excited to work with this team and help them make this new BBH office exactly the same at heart, yet strikingly different from any BBH office anywhere in the world.”
“I have always gravitated towards working with people and organizations that inspire me. BBH is exactly that space – an agency with a very clear point of view, from office culture to perspectives on the business. My task is to build the culture of “good people, great work” in Delhi/NCR, and deliver work truly represents the black sheep,” Srinivasan stated.
Both the BBH Mumbai and Delhi offices will operate as one BBH India entity, giving Delhi based clients easy access to the full BBH offer.
BBH has already built a strong base in Delhi with clients like real estate portal Makaan.Com and Philips and has several new business projects in progress.
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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.
