Union Bank of India: Currency, Mao
Joint account
Advertising Agency: Mudra Communications, Mumbai, India
Chief Creative Officer: Bobby Pawar
Creative Director: Parag Shahane
Art Director: Kiran Parihar
Copywriter: RK Johnson
Illustrator: Sahebrao Hare
Account Supervisors: Dominic Savio
Retouching: Mangesh Kadam



22 Comments
well...good point
but that must be some chn guys getting angery...pathetic folk
actually, as a chn guy myself, i would like to see what result turn out to be. it would be hilarious if a good one.
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Design has to work, art doesn't.
Seriously. Let's make a DEAL. Everyone in this website. Every art director, copywriter and every single creative director in the world: NO MORE BILL ADS! Ok? Deal?
I'm almost sure two guys in a bill is new, but i have no doubt using bill is a resource seen as hell.
gosh....terrible ads. what's the insight? Pure SCAM work!!!
according to the history,there`s no happy ending for Joint account
idea is really good. But why logo is black and white? is there any reason
Nice illustration, Nice Idea.
nice !
7/10
radical
I like nice :)
Chaminda Rathnayake
does anyone even know who the other person is? SHE is Mao's ex-wife and was very a very "bad" political figure in history.
Join account with Mao and her would be a disaster. Who's doing the research in this project? is this the bank wanting to promote?
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Design has to work, art doesn't.
like it. great.
one more thing: yes, bills have been so much used. but I think ads are quite like fashion: some things always come around again. you just have to use them in a new way.
joint account....hmmm are ads really done for a very basic banking feature like this?
i‘m Chinese,i haven't angery
it's funny (*^__^*)
(*^__^*) 我喜欢
Can u translate this in english pls.
good idea, bad research!
wow! so funny!
the designer is a talent~!
btw,I'm a Chinese.
The Chinese commentator, gdkid2004 is asking if the makers of this ad knew who the woman beside Mao was? He's sure that a joint account operated by the infamous commie couple would have been a disaster as it indeed was, in other spheres of life in China under this genocidal tyrant. Apparently gdkid2004 is a dissident and probably a democrat at heart. A commie crook won't talk like that. However, for us here in India, what is appalling is the utter insensitivity of Mudra, the agency, in making an ad depicting a monster like Mao in the same parameter with Mahatma Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln, 2 individuals who are just the opposite of Mao. But more shocking is the decision of the client, Union Bank of India, a PSU bank, to approve this provocative ad. Do these bankers know that the country's most numerous and most dangerous terrorists, the Maoists, swear by this monster, Mao? Sure, one Dev Kumar objecting to such provocative and insensitive work won't make any difference but if the government gets into the act, you'll immediately fall in line.
Dev Kumar,
You're full of crap...come on, those guys are all geared up for the award entries. Non of your crap will put a stop to these initiative.
www.michaelwongcc.com
just funny