13 Indian entries in YoungGuns 2009 shortlist

India has 13 entries in the YoungGuns 2009 shortlist. O&M has eight shortlisted entries, JWT has three entries and Rediffusion Y&R and Leo Burnett have one entry each.

O&M Mumbai’s Sour Marbels ‘Cave-man’, ‘Diver’ and ‘Tourist’ for Perfetti Van Melle have been shortlisted in Print Advertising Newspapers category and Out-of-home outdoor posters category. Also, Sour Marbels has been shortlisted in Print Advertising Campaigns Newspaper and Out-of-home campaigns category. The creative team for the campaign includes Nasarullah Husami and Saurabh Kulkarni.

JWT Chennai’s ‘Run/Ban Jallikatu’ for The Times of India has been shortlisted in Digital-being Involved category and ‘Arjuna the Archer in 2008’ for Sulekha.com has been shortlisted in Ad in Digital Visual Design – Aesthetic category. The creative team for 'Run/Ban Jallikatu' includes Arjun Kumar, Shiv Parameswaran, Sethil Kumar, Jeff Emmanuel, Arun Kumar, Mark Manuel and Mayun Samavedam. The creative team for 'Arjuna the Archer in 2008' includes Jeff Emmanuel, Mark Manuel, Arun Kumar, Arjun Nalapat, Senthil Kumar, Suresh Eriyat and Karthik Sekhar. JWT India’s ‘Berger Natural Finish Colours’ for Berger Paints in India has been shortlisted in Out-of-home outdoor large format category. The creative team includes Minal Phatak, Rohit Redekar, Tista Sen and Nadita Chalam.

Rediffusion Y&R’s ‘Airtel Mobile Phone Data Backup Service’ for Bharti Airtel has been shortlisted in Print Advertising Campaigns Newspapers category. The creative team includes Shameem Mohammad, Deepesh Jha, Jaideep Mahajan, Arunay Rai and Megha Dutta. Leo Burnett’s ‘Wrapper’ for P&G Whisper is a shortlist in Direct Mail Low Volume Mailings category. The creative team includes Chinmay Raut and Vikram Pandey.