LET GANDHI TALK - CURRENCY

TitleLET GANDHI TALK - CURRENCY
BrandIN GANDHI'S SHOES
Product / ServiceNON-PROFIT ORGANISATION
CategoryA04. Best Use of Ambient Media: Small Scale
EntrantPUBLICIS INDIA Gurgaon, INDIA
Entrant Company:PUBLICIS INDIA Gurgaon, INDIA
Advertising Agency:PUBLICIS INDIA Gurgaon, INDIA

Credits

Credits

Name Company Position
Emmanuel Upputuru Publicis India Chief Creative Officer
Shailendra Uniyal In Gandhi's Shoes Founder
Mohit Tomar Publicis India Creative Director
Ritu Sharda Publicis India Creative Director
Anindya Banerjee Publicis India Sr Creative Director
Nitesh Sah Publicis India Creative Group Head
Jagjit Singh Publicis India Creative Group Head
Shika Sud Publicis India Creative Group Head
Vivek Anand Publicis India Production Head
Amitav Misra Publicis India Creative Group Head

Results and Effectiveness

1. Over 300 shopkeepers have volunteered to take the idea forward by distributing the stickers to their customers. 2. The notes with Gandhi's message are in circulation. 3. Gandhi had started talking 61 years after he was killed. 4. The media has picked up the story and the idea is getting coverage in popular newspapers and television channels. Gandhi is back in circulation.

Creative Execution

Post-it notes in the shape of speech blurbs were printed which had quotes of Gandhi. Over 300 shopkeepers at Sarojini Nagar, New Delhi, a very crowded market where a bomb blast killed 53 people in 2005, have volunteered to distribute these to their customers. Every time they hand out change they stick a quote of Gandhi on the Currency Note and then give. So, every time the Currency Note exchanged hands, so will Gandhi's message.

Insights, Strategy and the Idea

Use the largest circulated paper in the world! In India, violence and crime are on the rise. India needs Gandhi's message of peace and non-violence, once again. And who better to spread the message than Gandhi himself. Every Indian Currency Note has a picture of Gandhi on it. We decided to make Gandhi talk again by using this medium. We made Post-its in the shape of speech blurbs which had Gandhi's quotes on it. People stuck these Post-its next to Gandhi's picture on the note. So now every time the Indian Currency Note exchanges hands, so will Gandhi's message.