Five Cheap Smartphone Ads From Hell

If there's one thing worse than Indian smartphone manufacturers, it's the ad executives hired by them to market the recycled Chinese handsets. Even the upper-crust brands aren't safe, as evidenced by the insipid Lumia commerical. The saying goes: if you pay peanuts, you'll only get monkeys – a fact that's aptly illustrated by most of the atrociously bad commercials inflicted upon TV viewers by the budget cellphone makers. We wouldn’t mind if they were just plain bad, but these advertisements take their wtf**kery to Lovecraftian levels. The shades of crazy range from cellphone-induced condom advocacy in one advert to another one where Virat Kohli plays a typical Dilli ka launda who tries everything but chloroform on the southern siren. Wait, that would be unlike the typical Dilli ka launda, but we get ahead of ourselves.Kohli’s egregious product endorsements aren’t the only adverts that make us wonder just what the hell were these agencies smoking. However, one can only take so much before going homicidal during the commercial break. It only makes sense then to vent our frustration with a caustic critique of five of the worst adverts infesting the airwaves.<strong>Nokia Lumia 510 The setup: Hands kissing, hands kissing everywhere. A young couple, a token old couple, friends, rubber ducks, a kabab mein haddi, all kissing—with all their hands. Fingers bunched together, they touch the others’ while pouting, apparently signifying a kiss. So what’s the bottom-line? The kiss just got "trendified" it seems. Is it just us, or does anyone else also suspect someone at Nokia is majorly into some twisted form of a hand fetish.Click here for full story