Film Analysis: Chennai Express

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Chennai Express is an Indian romantic comedy action drama film, Poduced by Red Chillies Entertainment and UTV Motion Pictures starring Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone, directed by Rohit Shetty. (Chennai Express, 2013)

Social media differs from traditional marketing techniques in its immediacy and directness; it enables a direct relationship with the target audience, a one-to-one feedback mechanism and sharing platform. Social media is the 21st century’s perfect crowd-sourced focus group as it enables real- time, two-way communication, allowing marketing campaigns to be changed based on trends and feedback. Chennai Express Digital Team, headed by Shailja Gupta planned well in advance about the use of social and digital media to promote the …show more content…

Analytics Tool and Big Data Technology along with 4A Model of engagement provided actionable insight and observe the social media patterns. Cross-pollination of social networks was designed to promote Chennai Express. “Chennai Express: Escape from Rameshwaram” the movie’s official game was launched on multiple platforms before the release of the movie. Free SMS delivery of tweets of SRK on the mobile devices, who register by giving a miss call on the provided number, was used to gin more connection and engagement from audiences across India. (Gupta, …show more content…

Palam sarees, worn by Deepika in the movie, held a fashion show in association, which got a huge response and engagement on social media. More than 5,50,000 twitter impressions were gathered in a week related to Palam sarees. A microsite was created, with a competition to win tickets to Chennai Express. The hashtag proved to be immensely popular, reaching over 600,000 people with over 1 million impressions. Over 30 brands directly or indirectly rode the Chennai Express generating millions of social media impressions in targeted market segments. Those included ecommerce websites, associated websites, political party, etc among others. (Gupta,

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