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Film Marketing · Historical2025

Kesari Chapter 2

Dharma Productions

Client
Dharma Productions
Year
2025
Category
Film Marketing / Historical
Services
Film Marketing, Creative Strategy, Digital, Social Media
The Campaign

In an entertainment-heavy landscape where film promotions often rely on spectacle, song launches, and predictable hype, marketing a century-old courtroom trial for Gen Z needed a radical shift. With Kesari Chapter 2, we chose to break convention by turning audiences from passive spectators into active witnesses through the campaign 'Witness the History.'

The campaign began with a disruptive, all-platform blank-screen teaser that hijacked feeds and sparked nationwide curiosity. This bold silence set the tone for a story that history had forgotten but needed to be heard. Progressive reveals of Akshay Kumar, R Madhavan, and Ananya Panday followed, carefully balancing mass appeal with cultural relevance.

We amplified the first-ever Akshay vs Maddy courtroom face-off as pop-culture fuel, igniting organic fandom conversations and dialogue-led storytelling. By rooting the narrative in emotion, confrontation, and truth, the campaign summoned a new generation to witness C. Sankaran Nair's forgotten legal battle against the British Empire.

Through social-first disruption and culturally resonant storytelling, Kesari Chapter 2 was positioned not just as a film, but as a national moment — one that revived history, rebuilt star power, and made the past feel urgent, visceral, and unmissable today.

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