Doing Jalsa &amp; Showing Jilpa

ஆஆப்பிள் அய்ப்பாட்…. நான் வாங்கிட்டேன்… அப்ப நீங்க…
gud post…

Ashwin

Super post, Ashok. Pramadam.

Didn’t know that you’re an Apple Mac addict too.

Guru

Wow.. Awesome work ..

You need to make shorter ads for radio though. I remember ads that get over even before we figure out the name of the product. I guess they used to run the tape at double speed after recording the ad back then.

Cheers..

Cool ‘n’ Casual

Hello! 🙂

I hope someone gets around to translating it in English. The premise sounds great and I would’ve loved to hear that, if only I understood Tamil.

Enjoy. 🙂

Cool ‘n’ Casual

Even hindi would do, for that matter. In fact, hindi would sound funnier (than English).

And Ashok, as a friendly word of advice, I request you to remove those annoying snap preview things this site has. In the words of Merlin Mann, “Snap.com previews are a valuable tool for a site’s first-time visitors. Especially as a quick way to know they won’t require a second visit.”

Give it a thought. 🙂

Ashok: didn’t realize that. removed it now

Suresh Ramasubramanian

Shit, you blew my mind. And while you are at it, you nearly blew my eardrums off .. with my laptop’s volume cranked down low.

Jesus, man .. got to meet up with you again. Silkmeet @ some other place than Copper Chimney?
Ashok:We should. How about Cream Center at RA Puram. They claim to serve the world’s greatest choley bhaturey

Suresh Ramasubramanian

ps: My daughter is 3. And this is like the 4th time she’s asked to hear the ads again. Especially the A for Aapull

Bheem

Dude, great work!! Been a long time since I got to hear those ads. I hoped to hear them the last time I was in a barber shop in Chennai but for some odd reason all I heard was some male guy who talked as ‘he’ was a femme and my aasthana barber was trying to convince me that ‘she’ is the best thing to happen to FM radio (well, my barber puts on water claiming its after shave, so I dont take his word for it). But, I would suggest that you run the ads in a fast-forward mode in order to get closer to those ads-running-on-crack.

Marc

The calling bell tone was a nice touch. Seriously ridiculous ads and equally funny voice acting! Nice work dude.

Oh also, games = Windows. Sad but true.

Vijay

*****
Great post (as usual).
Going to share this with other ஆப்பிள் addict friends.

Karteek

Whahahahahahahahahahahahhaahahahaha

complicateur

No jingle ala the “Ponvandu” soap song!! That thing was the single most catchy song on the radio in the 80’s. I still remember the lines to it.

sumathi

been a lurker for a bit, but just HAD to respond to this. I am in convulsions, and my neighbours may be contemplating a suit against me for laughing excessively. Abs brilliant! Thanks and 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀

Kavitha

lmaorotf….good way to start a monday 🙂

vaishnavi bhaskaran

OMG!

vaishnavi bhaskaran

you’re something special..

portmanteau

Props for the colorful izzat-looting phrase. Some benevolent please translate this into English. Even Hindi works.
Let humor cross the Vindhyas.
Mr. Krish Ashok, tear down this wall.*

*http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyu9zIUDw0s&feature=related

6pac Thakur

First off.. Krish, your blog is extremely hilarious.

The 4th kind I can think of is probably the cheesy song one. The song is basically a high-pitched female singing the couple long lines — usually the first line is the same and the second one changes every stanza. Then it is followed by men singing in the lines of “ap kelaa.. I-lasa.. inthana.. I-lasa”

The video is essentially of a family singing in a middle-class apartment. Humble attempt…

( High pitched female voice )
Aapple Ipod touchu neenga vaangi paarunga
Gaana paatu matter philimu enjoy pannunga

( Men chorus )
Format enna?!…
MP3!

Zune-u romba!…
Appeetu!

Storage enna?!…
8GB!

Usage romba !…
Jujubi!

Aapple Ipod touchu neenga vaangi paarunga
Bustop figaru jalsaak kattai setup pannunga

( Men chorus )
IPod kammi!..
Velai

Jobsu enga!..
Thalai

Wireless maamu!..
Wi-fi!

Creative Zen-nu!..
Sothai!!

Hilarious dude! :))

Nice try but semma boring… could have made it interesting!

Aparna

That was so good…very very funny..and the calling bell sound in between the ads, the All India Radio touch huh!!

Varun

Brilliant man 🙂 Just like those jhandu baam ads that i remember.. And the voice modulation was good. 🙂

Krishnan

Ha ha ! Hilarious ! Couldnt control my laughter hearing it first thing in the office.

Rohini

Brilliant. You are rocking!!

Preeti

My friends consider my most recent post to be free publicity for your jalsa. I consider it spreadin happiness 🙂

Had to blogroll u!
Ashok: Honoured 🙂

Diwakar Muthu

AAApil ipod really rocks….. aanalum mac machinela Windows run panarathu konjum over than….keep rocking man…

Cheers….

Balaji

Aaapil eyephone vechi anju maanga adikalaama…..

haiyaaa….

maxdavinci

fantastic, cudn’t believe twas you with both voices…

nice modulation… loved the way you said ‘aaapull’

Thenga Chutney

Chancey NO! Nearly fell off my chair! 😀 You’re the best!

You forgot “Elaam departmental stores-liyum kidaikkum…Aaaapil Ipod”

DesiGirl

Oh my god! There’s TWO of you? Sweet lord!

Major LOL factor, as always. Had a ‘Gopal Pal Podi’ ring to it.
Ashok: Actually there’s three. The middle one is in the US

Lavanya

Hoo boy!! Looks like you’d have made a killing in several professions!!

The whiney voice for the kid was simply soooper ….

Not sure why but found myself thinking of Kamal in that K. Balachander movie in which he plays ventriloquist. Dont know the Tamil name …:)
Ashok: The movie was Avargal

Lavanya

Was that your doorbell in between ads?! Nice !! Reminded me of the “ding ding” between ads of those days.
Ashok: Not my doorbell. It was something I found by doing a google search for “doorbell sound clip wav”

Arunk

Superb! “MP3 ASE, MP4, AIFF, MOV ..” – you got that authentic tamil radio ad stamp going there – besides of course the AaaPpill ipaad)

Also, – that appa in part 3 seems pretty cool. Quite supportive to an ipod to support payan’s SMS texting girl-prends: kaalam maariduchuya! Nalla kaalam porandhuduchu 😉 !

BTW, please give “Shaapa vimochanam” to your mini. May I suggest a varam “to move to the other side of the world” to an address in the US that I can provide.

Durga Prasad

Hey….!!!! Add telugu also in the list.

I would love to hear the same conversation if some one can translate in to telugu.

Kamini

Too good, I say! This brought back such a flood of memories of my radio-listening school and college days.
Krish Ashok and Krish Raghav?? It made me think of Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox, for some reason.
Kamini.

Hari

Finally I get to listen to ur voice…. Good script Krish…. Looking forward for more such fun stuff

Dharini Parthasarathy

Oh, this is way too funny!…your blog cracks me up…first time here, but rummaging through archives and all…

Hari

Super Hilarious! Gr8 job!

LOLing non-stop 🙂

boy! you should be raking in the money doing a tamizh-jerry seinfeld-type-comic gig!

Bikerdude

Yaaaahahaha too much!

Please also compose cutesy jingle ala Ujala.

Preeti

n just incase u dont revisit my blog ;), here is the reply for ur 2 qns:

@ashok: Oooohhh!Im honoured!!! kadavul e darishanam kudutha madri iruku! 🙂 anyway, my 2 answers:

1. Fortunately/unfortunately tat isnt wat muruku sandwich is..the murukus themselves serve the purpose of sandwichin rather than the bread. So, it consists of 2 kutti murukus with chilli chutney,a slice each of tomato,potato and onion in between. Super yummy, fillin and juz 20 bux! Available at all chat shops in Puruswalkam but the best would be Link’s opp. Dasaprakash.

P.S: Would be a dual purpose visit. You could also get quite a lotta laughz on their spellingz on the board, eg: Courn canapes cheas (which we ordered outta curiosity. Turns out its corn canapes (!) with cheese!)

2. Ah! Fire fox, iv been hearin a lot abt it recently (yes, im very bad with tis stuff).. Naa konjam senti u c…I adapt to change very bad! But yes, word press is beckonin!

n again, THANX for droppin by! even if it ws juz to c wat i hd written abt u 😉 hehe…

Raga

Next time try a more popular format of radio advertisement..
Copy the music and tune of any latest filmi super hit number and crush the ad jingle lyrics into it….

It sounds uber disgusting but hey it does catch ones attention at least for a split second.. 🙂

jane

🙂
absolootely enjoyed listenin 2 zoze ads.. esp liked the label appadepod. 🙂

*ya cud ‘ve created another radio jingle tat way, lotta tamil ads do tat- sync their prod features wit the musical flavor of teh season!

appade podu podu podu!
asathi podu apple ipod a!
ipidi podu podu podu
illuthu podu ear phones a!
unoda urasuthum mp3 kekavakyun
indha apple podhuma, innu konja venuma…

tat was jus a basic lacing, cos ma tamilz kinda bad, but tat was jus a thought…

*like ya flow of thoughts- very interestyn indeed.. ya prettymuch ooze creativity…
give us sum more..

ela

Great stuff….liked ur voice modulation!

Pranesh Srinivasan

Gawd Wonly! 🙂

narendra shenoy

Hilarious!

EssKay

Man-Oh-Man!!! You rock!!!!
btw am ur long time fan first time commentor !
Keep up the great job!!!

Aishwarya

JOY!

(Also, consider this the beginning of a petition to get Krish Raghav to blog also)

Aishwarya

…there were two alsos in that comment. Sigh.

Oh boy, this was super!! :–)
Reminded me a lotttt of good old days in Chennai, listening to Radio. Sigh!

mohanlal

Thanks to Websense “Social Networking and Personal Sites” is filtered” in my office, couldnt hear a word of the ad jingles 😦
As for cool’n’casual’s perception of those nice snap previews, i differ and found them quite alluring to visit those previewed sites rather than just a plain link.
Perceptions differ Krish.
hope the old status quo is brought back

mohanlal

To add further, I considered those cute preview windows as one of “Doing jalsa..Jilpa’s USPs.

Mahesh

ROTFL….aaga… seidhigal vaasippadhu saroj kuppusaamy appadingardhu thavira ellame dhoola record panni irukkeenga…
aaapil i pod and aaapil i phone …aga…besh besh romba nanna irukku…..

Avinash

aaaha…..first time unga blog paathen….range a dan irukku….ela appakazhum neenga solra maadiri ‘aaaphizh’ I phone vaangi thanda, thalaila thundu pottu solavendiyadudan…’maapu vechayan aapu’ nu 😛

maami

As a regular Eve, this ‘Appil’ was too tempting!
A big bite for me to laugh out aloud!

kalyani

Fantastic! :-))))))))))))))

Srini

Rin Style ad:

Ivar gizmo ennudhavida kalakkala?
Irrukave mudiyaadhu. Yeanna en kitte irukku Aapill iPod – mp3, mov, ABC, DEF ellam play panna kudiya jagadalapradaapha item ithu

Archana meets Gopuram Poosu Manjal Thool :

He : Shopping pannittu late a vandhennu kovamaa?

She: Ponga… ennoda pesaadheenga…

He: Varummodhu namma aapill kadailendhu Aapil iPod vaangindu vandhen.

Keatka
Paarkha
Jalsa Panna

Apple iPod Touch. Vaangungal angeegareegapattulla kadaigalil mattum. Apple mark muddiraiyai keattu vaangungal.

Aapill iPod.

I dont remember the ARR sugandha paaku ad.. That will be a rocker for the aapill iPod…

rekharaghav

Haha.. couldnt help laughing all the way.. My gosh.. you never seem to stop surprising me.. seriously eppdi ippdi???

jillumadrasi