Amitabh Bachchan turns film critic for Tata Sky

Amitabh Bachchan turns film critic for Tata Sky

Amitabh Bachchan

MUMBAI: Tata Sky’s latest high decibel ATL campaign this season highlights its multiple entertainment offerings with two versions — one featuring Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan and the other featuring Southern superstar Nayanthara. The new campaign emphasises on the depth of entertainment that Tata Sky offers in a manner that’s loveable and memorable.

The campaign, ‘#HarSceneKaMazaaLo’ showcases Bachchan as he adorns the role of a Bengali critic mimicking Bollywood superstars in a series of nine ad films. Bachchan is seen to be completely engrossed in watching famous movies brought to him by Tata Sky where he reanimates the evergreen dialogues in his own Bengali avataar. The objective of the ad campaign is to showcase how an individual enjoys the offerings of Tata Sky to the fullest, highlighting the abundance of entertainment across platforms.

Shot as a series of five ad films, the campaign primarily draws attention to the benefits that Tata Sky offers in the form of pay for what you watch, highest regional HD channels, on the screen of your choice along with a 24X7 customer helpline facility in dedicated southern languages

Tata Sky’s chief communications officer Malay Dikshit says, “In a country which is obsessed with movies, it’s not a surprise that feature films aired on TV contribute to over 28 per cent of the total viewership. Bachchan’s legacy and Nayanthara’s versatile personality along with Ogilvy and Mather’s creativity has helped us create the magic for Tata Sky. It beautifully depicts our objective to strive and offer maximum and some of the best entertaining content to our consumers at any budget, on any screen, anytime, anywhere.”

Ogilvy India chief creative officer Sukesh Nayak adds, “When you truly enjoy watching a film you begin to respond to an actor’s performance. You are awed or disappointed by their performance and you are always vocal about it. We used this insight as an entry point to talk about the huge bouquet of movie channels Tata Sky has to offer. It was a blast working with Bachchan and Shoojit on this campaign. We had lots and lots of fun. The core idea of ‘Har scene ka mazza lo’ will be amplified across different mediums. On digital, just like our tough film critic, we will encourage people to share with us their favourite scenes.

With an aim to connect with the viewers, Tata Sky’s maximum entertainment campaign is a 360-degree campaign which includes outdoors in the form of bill boards, wall paintings and bus backs, digital and TVCs. Bachchan’s TVC has been envisioned and executed by Ogilvy and directed by national award-winning director Sircar. Nayanthara features in the campaign created for the southern states directed by R Krishnakumar.