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Red Chillies’ Manish Kumar turns entrepreneur with Digi Osmosis
MUMBAI: Former Red Chillies Entertainment head of marketing and digital Manish Kumar has turned entrepreneur with the launch of a marketing and advertising outfit called Digi Osmosis.
The agency will help brands be future-ready in the digital ecosystem as well as capitalise on this new and ever-growing community.
Digi Osmosis founder Manish Kumar said, “It’s simple… we understand digital and technology. We are constantly exploring new ways to exploit the digital landscape and simplify it for both the clients and the consumers. Through this company, we aim to create content that engages the fans and appeals to them and marry innovation through technology by partnering with the best tech gurus in the business. We are young, passionate and think new! We don’t just dream, but we back it up with numbers. Our backbone is analytics, and we tailor solutions according to the figures. Digital is in our blood. And we bleed ones and zeroes.”
Through digital innovations, content, engaging fans and followers and helping connect influencers via their preferred platform and technologies in the space of sports and entertainment, Digi Osmosis aims to provide a complete digital solutions package, not only driving content but become creators.
Kumar has over eight years of experience in being a frontrunner in driving innovations and creating never-before-seen business opportunities for the Indian entertainment and sports industry in the digital space.
Exuding knowledge in technology, marketing and digital industry and also acting as the nucleus connecting the arms of sports, entertainment and technology brands, the agency uses simple strategies and easy communication options to create digital assets for their clients through multiple ways. It integrates with systems and digital assets like media buying, viral marketing, social media marketing and using analytics efficiently to predict trends and create content in an organic manner.
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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.
