Salman Khan, Sangeeta Bijlani in Graviera Suitings Ad
This advertisement for Grasim's Graviera Suitings is one of the rare occasions when Salman and Sangeeta appeared together professionally.Continue Reading →
The Aroma of Zeenat Aman
If it is named after Zeenat Aman, it has to smell good. An advertisement for a perfume named after Zeenat…
Panama Cigarette Ad from 1945
A few years back, I had put together, on this blog, an extensive collection of Indian Cigarette Ads from 1800s…
Aamir Khan Rides the Hero Puch
You may remember Aamir Khan riding a Hero Puch on the roads of Delhi in the 1999 film Sarfarosh (it’s somewhat unrelated that I couldn’t just keep my eyes off…Continue Reading →
Prem Pujari Actress Zaheeda in Lux Ad
What seems unusual (to me) about this Lux ad (from early 1970s) that Lux is known to have established actresses…
Ads for Oral Sex!
One day, in the comparatively innocent times that we grew up in, a friend announced, “I had oral sex.” I…
Lisa Ray in Bombay Dyeing Vivaldi Ad
Quite a long while ago when I had initiated (and now reviving) the Fantastic Females series on this blog, the name Lisa Ray was on the top of the list…Continue Reading →
Hindustan Times: Hitting the paper on the head
Hindustan Times seems to have a thing for makeovers. I remember seeing at least four different avatars of the newspaper.…
Adholics
Meghna Girohtra, from Bombay, has collected 243 vintage Indian print advertisements (on the last count) on Flickr. A collection which…
Sexy Indian Ads
Adjective: sexy (sexier, sexiest) seksee1. Marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire of interest“feeling sexy”; “sexy clothes”; “sexy poses”; “a sexy book”; “sexy jokes”2. Exciting sexual desire That’s what…Continue Reading →
Indian Cigarette Ads from 1800s to 2000s
The song that is on the tip of the tongue of every Hindi-film-loving Indian smoker is getting a paint job.…
Vintage Indian Advertisements 2.12
All the four banks featured in this post were nationalised approximately four years after the publication of these ads. There…
