As India’s biggest brand, Amitabh Bachchan has sold us everything from hair oil to phones, jewellery to life insurance, inner wear to TV services. He was recently spotted in an ad for Dr. Fixit, a waterproofing product being plugged for new houses or as useful ahead of Indian monsoon.
As ads go, this one is quite insipid. It is neither clever nor funny although they appeared to have been aiming for both. Rather than the actual ad, it was the memes that it inspired that were funnier.
Here an octopus is holding various receptacles to ‘catch’ leaks. Both videos prompted memes.
Some of us are like this on a Monday morning and emerge from our shells – literally as well as figuratively – only on the weekend.
If poor employees hate Mondays, bosses have a lot to say about their subordinates. And their work ethics!
This is a comment about the hypocrisy of our society where women are required to behave a certain way in their married homes; repressive customs that those women refuse to follow when they step outside.
Relatives who are otherwise not interested in your life will suddenly become most interested at the time exam results are announced. They hope to be able to express regret, offer sympathy and give unwanted advice.
There are directors who fancy they can make Salman Khan act. They are mistaken. Bhai is known to follow only his own direction.
A few jokes on politicians are well-nigh unavoidable.
Our politicians are well known for taking credit for a job well done, but shouldering none of the responsibility for mistakes, failures, scams.
A B De Villiers is a beloved player. So what if he is a part of the team that refuses to leave the bottom of the IPL table.
Indian players are often accused of being unable to handle foreign pitches as well as they do friendly tracks prepared in India.
We open a chat, see them typing and shut the app… mostly so we don’t have to reply immediately… or at all!
Karan Johar has probably launched more star kids than any other person in Bollywood. If people level the nepotism charge at him, they are not wrong.
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