'I am a working mother, I have to take care of children, work, home, etc tec.. Life is so stressful'. True. This lady can be speaking for any of thousands of working mothers in bangalore. But the solution she offers? Apply XYZ cream and the skin looks like that of carefree woman. Wow! And what about the rest of the body and heart and health?
'Flu can be serious' a somber voice on radio informs the listeners, expecting that the listeners will panic and buy that flu vaccine being marketed by a multi-national pharma company. Wasn't flu always part of life in India? And how many people we know were seriously ill with flu? I am very sure many times more children die from road accidents due to bad roads than from Flu. But there is no single shot vaccination for improving roads, is there?
'Ab meri maa ki office mein 25% jyada tareef hogi...' a child speaks because some beauty soap is giving 25% free when you buy one. Ignoring the fallacious logic that more soap one applies more beautiful one becomes and the MCP attitude that the praise in office is directly proportional to beauty of a female employee, I listen further: 'Ab maa muzhse 25% jyada pyar karegi'. One again, Wow! A mother will love only as much as she is beautiful. What does this child (or the writer of the ad) wants to say?
I take back some morals from these ads:
- Beauty is only skin deep. As long as you look beautiful, you are happy.
- I have produced a vaccine for flu, so suddenly flu is dangerous for you kids. It does not matter that nobody you know has been (seriously) ill with flu.
- I should buy MP3 player and listen to it in gym. This is the place where I am tortured with these ads day in and day out.
2 comments:
Maga, you need to chill out.. this is the way world works. It is not Americanization, anybody with money/in power will take advantage of the masses. Be it blatant corruption or making fool out of people. Don't be fooled yourself and as far as possible be in a position to take advantage of the weaknesses you see.
:) very nicely told.
Life is so simple, its a wonder.
my husband will love me more, if only his shirt smells like rose, he will also forget his mom, if my cooked food tastes certain way and my child ... she does not want me to work, she wants my hair long.
and I am happy because my skin finally is wrinkle free and my hand is as fair as my face.
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