Harbhajan can now be dropped

[ganeshran]

While it may seem frivolous on the surface, the implications of this ad could be far more damaging. The last thing Indian cricket needs are internal disputes between two senior team members whcih can disrupt the team harmony and that too, at a time when we are up against the biggest challenge in tests.I wonder if Harby's lackadaisical performance in WI had anything to do with this...The ad came out around the same time.

[asterix]

While it may seem frivolous on the surface, the implications of this ad could be far more damaging. The last thing Indian cricket needs are internal disputes between two senior team members whcih can disrupt the team harmony and that too, at a time when we are up against the biggest challenge in tests.I wonder if Harby's lackadaisical performance in WI had anything to do with this...The ad came out around the same time.

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

[Yoda-esque]

:hysterical::hysterical::hysterical::hysterical:

I knew I would get panned for this,but its plausible , isnt it? Hes human too like the rest of us and the fact that he chose to file a suit after the tour means that it was probably affecting him during the WI series. It does in no way, however take away anything from his dismal performances in the period before that.Its just that during the WI series, his performance was extra-miserable even by his own standards and admission. Again,I was only speculating...

[Ram]

The spoof was hilarious! :cantstop: They made no efforts whatsoever to make it subtle.. Bhajji's body double had a close resemblance to Bhajji, they used a very similar voice and even the BG music was exactly the same. And that slap... Ek dum solid! :hysterical:

[Show_stopper]

I kind of have a hard time buying this arguement that it hurts his sentiments because the situation potrayed resembles some incident in his life. I mean come on if it meant that much to him he shouldn't have permitted them to commercially exploit it. Once he did that...opposing brands can take liberties. Its no different from Pepsi vs thumbs up ads we saw some years ago.

[Mariyam]

^indian ads are way more creative then US ads.

Hmm' date=' but do we have the scope/guts/liberty to make a serial like south park which makes a mockery of all religions, persons, celebrities dead or alive?[/quote'] @MTC: Why should creativity be judged by how tolerant we are when it comes to sacrosanct subjects? That can be a judge of tolerance, not creativity. Lets not mix the two. For eg: I'd say Amul is very creative. And they don't have to 'offend' people to be creative.

[Karan114]

I kind of have a hard time buying this arguement that it hurts his sentiments because the situation potrayed resembles some incident in his life. I mean common if it meant that much to him he shouldn't have permitted them to commercial exploit it. Once he did that...opposing brands can take liberties. Its no different from Pepsi vs thumbs up ads we saw some years ago.

Nail on head. If it is something so close to your heart, then don't try to make money off it. But if you do...well then its fair game for anybody to comment or make fun of. Anyway, they were clearly making fun of Bhajji and Bhajji only...not his father, not his religion as he so pathetically is claiming.

[Mariyam]

The ad is an ok spoof. I chuckled. :P But the charges against Mallya's company are ridiculous. How does this malign the Sikh community? This is going to be such an interesting case to follow. PS: I've seen so many spoofs of the Bhajji Sree slapgate incident. People have mocked Bhajji and Sree on channels for years after that. Some of those spoofs were more damning than this ad.

[Trichromatic]

This is going to be such an interesting case to follow.

Even more interesting after Mallya's refusal to remove the ad.

[Show_stopper]

^ oh so thats what the phrase meant :p Anyway I thought Sikhs were supposed to be the most sportive people...

[punjabi_khota]

@MTC: Why should creativity be judged by how tolerant we are when it comes to sacrosanct subjects? That can be a judge of tolerance, not creativity. Lets not mix the two. For eg: I'd say Amul is very creative. And they don't have to 'offend' people to be creative.

Have you seen any comedy show on Indian tv ? :(( I think there is not a single comedy show produced in last 10 years that was even mildly funny. Office-office was good in its first few years. Comedy Challenge was good for 3 years, but its not a regular show. If you let people touch these so called 'sacrosanct' issues, maybe someone will come up with something funny ? Gujju ben ka dedha chashma and other crap like that can be tolerated only for so long (ie 10 seconds).

[Kumar]

^ oh so thats what the phrase meant :p Anyway I thought Sikhs were supposed to be the most sportive people...

Where did you get this impression from? because sikhs are generalised as tall and have a history of war/martial arts/fighting ??

[Mariyam]

Have you seen any comedy show on Indian tv ? :((

MTV emotional atyachaar :P On topic: I kind of agree with you :(( . We really have humour inertia. But MTC was speaking about creative ads. :dontknow:

[Show_stopper]

Where did you get this impression from? because sikhs are generalised as tall and have a history of war/martial arts/fighting ??

Kushwant Singh :--D

[CSK Fan]

@MTC: Why should creativity be judged by how tolerant we are when it comes to sacrosanct subjects? That can be a judge of tolerance, not creativity. Lets not mix the two. For eg: I'd say Amul is very creative. And they don't have to 'offend' people to be creative.

Because, IHMO, any lack of tolerance stifles creativity to a large extent. The Amul ads are a wonderful example of creativity, but for every 1 topic they cover, they might have to leave 10 untouched because of the immaturity of Indians when it comes to tolerating diverse views. You are right that we dont need to offend people to be creative. But then Indians automatically find much more things to offended about than an average American

[Viki_J]

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nice ad !