Foreign Language ad

After an idea session with a good friend (Arthashasthra) earlier today, I thought to post two Bengali adverts. Both were directed by Mustafa Sarwar Farroukhi - a new-age director who has revolutionised "video fiction" - and amidst the depressingly global "character crunch" (as Bremner puts it), we need some fun entertainment!

Citycell Zoom (Internet) advert is a very clever (/irony) advert for the following reasons:

• It was shot in Bangladesh, where nearly everything in day-to-day life seems to be uniquely chaotic. Thus, the happy-go-lucky foreign woman (Stella) decides to swim across the river after encountering an incomplete bridge.
• She is going to Rup Nagar (The town of Beauty)!!!!
• She meets her sweetheart Masud Rana (twisted tale from the classic Bengali version of 'James Bond', and is a popular read in Bangladesh; Masud Rana often has foreign girlfriends)

Now for the second ad - Freshgel (Mukh Safai)

Freshgel is humour/parody of melodramatic asian daytime soap operas. Some points to consider:

• Materialistic Choudhury (the old man) is not happy for his son to wed the daughter, and has a filthy mouth for that matter
• The mother of the girl (old woman) retorts, saying Choudhury needs to clean his breath before he splurs out any further jibberish
• Freshgel does the trick ;-)