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Triple
A Awards: Lowe maxes, Contract follows with Quadrant getting
three golds
(Posted on 23 February 2002 4:05 pm)
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It's awards season in the advertising business. The first
of them: the seventh edition of The Triple A Awards (in association
with leading Indian television network Star India) got going
last night at Mumbai's Oberoi Hotel.
A lounge suit affair held by the poolside, it attracted head
honchos from advertising right from JWT head Mike Khanna to
RK Swamy's Sreenivasan Swamy to Saatchi & Saatchi's R.Shantakumar,
Lowe Lintas's Prem Mehta, Bates India's Madhukar Kamath, Mudra's
Kaushik Roy, Madison's Sam Balsara, and Canco's and 3Aof I
president Ramesh Narayan, and London-based art and creative
guru Graham Fink and his partner Dierdre Allen of the Fink
Tank.
Also present was O&M's Piyush Pandey, which led Balsara who
hosted the proceedings to remark that "I hope Piyush's presence
lays to rest any controversy that the media is trying to play
up about O&M and the 3A of I."
Marketing veterans such as Hawkins' Brahm Vasudeva, and the
Tata Group's J.C. Chopra, Eureka Forbes's COO Bal Palekar,
Levers' director (personal products) Arun Adhikari, and director
(detergents) Aart Weizburg, also marked their presence.
The evening commenced with a rendition of the Barbara Streisand
hit single Memory by Sharon Prabhakar, which talked
about the bad times that the advertising industry has gone
through last year and how it is seeking a silver lining. An
impeccable performance if there was any by India's Evita.
Sam Balsara and Canco boss Ramesh Narayan were the sole two
individuals on stage who handed out the awards. Fink - best
known for his British Airways campaign which featured humans
creating a face - came in as a break. He scolded the fraternity
for not being buoyant about the awards and the wins. He mimicked
the walk of the Lowe Lintas rep who walked up to receive the
awards and told him to not look miserable. (This remark led
Balki to comment later that he does not need any Finks or
Pandeys or Khanna to teach Lowe how to walk or talk while
receiving an award). Fink then went to talk about how he masqueraded
as an old man in London to get a job in Collette, Dickens
and Pierce, a creative hotshop in those days. He also extolled
ad professionals to ask themselves what is their message,
quoting Mahatma Gandhi who once said "My message is my Life."
The big awards went to Levers (The Advertiser of the Year),
Quadrant (Showcase of the Year - Press, Contract bagged the
silver and HTA the bronze), Lowe Lintas (Showcase of the Year,
joint silvers to Contract and HTA), Everest and Saatchi (joint
gold for Campaign of the Year for Parle Agro's Frooti Digen
Verma campaign, and Maruti Udyog's WagonR respectively; Levers'
Pepsodent toothpaste got the silver).
The awards were marked by the absence of any entries from
O&M. The Abbys which are slated to be held on 9 March 2002,
will be marked by the absence of any entries from Lowe Lintas.
Apparently, a schism has been created in the industry last
year, since Lowe Lintas' Balki and O&M's Piyush Pandey got
into a media brawl about the manner in which the Abbys were
being judged.
Click
here for a slide show of the awards...
Click
here to get details of the awards that the agencies pocketed
Click
here to get a tally of the awards each agency won
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