Thursday, February 7, 2013

what a difference of gender

Since past few days I have been watching the latest commercial of Coke that is doing the rounds on the television. It is the one where the concept of being "crazy" is exhibited. The commercial starts with a girl cycling by a taxi/auto waiting line and she claps the palms of the people who are hailing the commercial vehicles.Then she looks back and smiles, which eventually causes the emotions of the clapped ones from dazed to finally being happy. And then the commercial progresses with few more of such acts of random people surprising and making random people happy. And all while in the minute long commercial, the background song plays which is - "Han han mai crazy hun...."

Those of you who have seen the commercial would know what I am talking about, but for those who have not, for them I am mentioning the other parts of the commercials. Apart from the clapping/hi-fiving cycling girl, there is one female guitarist playing songs for a random bunch of kids; a guy giving away his bottle of coke to the security guard of the eatery from where he walks out ( probably the coke was free with his meal :) ).

Another act is of a man feeding the stray dogs. Of all the acts in the commercial, this one is my favourite, because of the loving interaction seen between the canines and the man. I think there is one more of a person attaching a make shift swing to a tree for people to have recreation on. I think I am not missing out on any more of the acts, except for one more, where a woman is sitting pillion on a two-wheeler, while facing opposite to the direction of the driver. The reason she does the stunt is her large heart. She is actually distributing kites (not exactly sure, do not remember) to a gang of running kids.

All the acts go in line with the concept of the commercial which is "being  crazy enough to give happiness to a complete stranger". Well, there is nothing wrong with the concept, except for one of the acts that makes me go crazy.

I am talking of the one in which the bi-cycling female hi-fives the strangers and smiles and pedals away thinking that she made a complete stranger completely happy; in fact she did, cause the people whose palms she claps are shown being happy with a wide grin. I being myself just think, with my standard "WHAT....IF" thoughts. And on this one I think what if it was a male/boy instead of a female giving hi-fives to the people waiting at the rickshaw stands.  Just think what if....


HAHAHA When I think about the scenario for just 5 seconds, I end up laughing. Surely, the male would succeed in giving hi-fives to only 2 random strangers, and then surely the third hi-five would be on his face by the strangers themselves. And if by any chance the person being hi-fived turn out to be female, then a whole mob would end up giving that pedaling boy a lot of hi-fives all over his body. 

LOL It is so funny to realize that how things/tasks and circumstances change with the changing involvement of genders...




3 comments:

  1. I couldn't agree more. And that is probably one of the reasons why the fairer gender is more often seen in advertisements which has a message of spreading love and happiness.

    Just thinking out loud : "if the same would have been shot in an international advert with a male in Europe ?? it would had convinced our indian crowd too who would watch it on youtube and ofcourse like it too. ;)

    its quite ironical at times. whom to blame ?

    our mentality

    or

    our men?

    keep up the good work of sharing your thoughts. they for sure are a feast for many minds. :)

    Cheers.

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