Indian Railways - Review

We've all done it as children, aped the train journey with its sounds and whistles. And those memories come flooding back as Piyush Pandey and his gang of men bring back those memories by recreating the experiences of the sights and sounds of a train's journey across the country.

The ad is loosely borrowed from the Ashok Kumar starrer Aashirwad (1968). For more, view here:

There is no story to the ad because the train is the story. The ad is about a string of a human train meandering through the streets and in and out of mansions hooting and chugging along.

In our memories of the rail gaadi, hangs many a tale: of matka chai boiled umpteen times before it finds its way into the matkas (!); of tender coconuts in Guntur station and aaloo luchi in Kharagpur station. Yes, those were the days. I loved it all. And that's what the train in the ad chugging along reminds me of... but I digress...

"Rail gaadi, rail gaadi, chuk, chuk, chuk, chuk..."  chugging along, rakes up some good, some not so good, but always interesting memories.

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