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Enormous Brands’ Rahul Tekwani launches Branding Edge Strategic Communication
NEW DELHI: Former Enormous Brands strategist Rahul Tekwani has launched his own venture, Branding Edge Strategic Communications and Advisory. The agency will focus on developing a brand and reputation programme to achieve business goals, build awareness and credibility, and enhance the long-term enterprise value of clients.
On the brand side, the company will be providing 360-degree services which include branding, design, digital strategy and research, and data-driven storytelling and influencer engagement strategies.
Branding Edge Strategic Communications will also offer media strategy, customised investor relation program, capital market and transactional advisory, crisis management services, and social communication public sector units as part of its reputation management advisory.
Branding Edge managing partner Rahul Tekwani said, “I felt this was the best time to enter the communication strategy business. The brand and the reputation agencies have not found it easy to adapt to the changing landscape of media and the client business. We feel the core focus of the marketing strategy today needs to be primarily business-driven.”
He further added, “I personally feel data will take the pole position in branding. The recent study by market research companies also showcased how 83 per cent of data-driven companies in India reported gaining critical business advantages during the pandemic. Our core focus remains to unlock the full potential of clients’ data with our strategy-based approach and give our client edge in the domestic and international markets.”
The team of Branding Edge comprises strategists, senior creatives, investment bankers, corporate lawyers with more than two and a half decades of transactional experience.
The company has offices in Mumbai and Delhi and will set foot in the south and east market by next financial year.
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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.
