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Today’s film stars endorse several products at once. But dig through advertisement archives and you’ll find the most unexpected faces.
by The Editors | editor@themetrognome.in

Advertisements and endorsements are part of a larger game involving a celebrity’s popularity and general attractiveness. The more popular the star, the higher the number of endorsements.

If you thought yesteryear actors didn’t endorse brands, you thought wrong. A lot of Hindi cinema’s popular, and sometimes, unexpected faces endorsed a range of products, from hair cream and cigarettes, from beauty soaps to even pickles! While Ashok Kumar endorsed a suitings brand, perpetually-in-the-dumps Nirupa Roy was once a face for a beauty soap.

But enough talk. Enjoy our slideshow of 15 vintage Bollywood endorsements.

 

(Pictures courtesy satyamshot.wordpress.com, www.facebook.com, post.jagran.com, orkut-html.blogspot.com, memsaabstory.com, cineplot.com, assambiskoot.com)

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