This Raksha Bandhan, Schbang moved beyond the rakhi and mithai clichés to find a sharper cultural insight for each brand, then built the idea around it. Here’s how five brands, across five very different categories, made the festival their own.
- Fevicol “Bhaiyya Jahan, Chhoti Wahan” / “Didi Jahan, Chhotu Wahan”: The youngest sibling’s default setting is proximity, always tagging along, always right behind. Fevicol borrows its own brand promise of an unbreakable bond and applies it to something every family recognises, the younger one who simply refuses to be separated from the older one, whether it’s toy cars or a doll’s hair getting combed.
- Visa: “Happily Accepted by Sisters Everywhere” Gifting on Raksha Bandhan has quietly moved from cash envelopes to cards, but the emotion of “acceptance” hasn’t changed. Visa borrows the festival’s own vocabulary of blessings and gifts to position the card itself as something a sister happily accepts, making a payments brand feel native to the ritual rather than bolted onto it.
- Flair: “Every Millimetre Matters”: Sibling squabbles over sharing, whether it’s a sweet or anything else, are timeless, down to the exact size of the last piece. Flair leans into that familiar bickering, using a ruler to measure out a mithai slice with mock precision, turning a stationery product into the tool for the oldest sibling argument there is: fairness.
- Hauser Germany: “For Every Mistake Your Sibling Helped You Erase” The insight: a sibling’s role often isn’t the grand gesture, it’s the quiet clean-up, the bad haircut, the text you shouldn’t have sent, the terrible business idea. Hauser ties this idea to its own product, the eraser, turning a stationery item into a metaphor for the sibling who’s always helped rub out life’s smaller mistakes.
- Birla Opus PaintCraft: “Some Memories Need No Frame”: Childhood memories with siblings aren’t preserved in photo frames, they’re preserved in the homes they were made in. By setting a simple, joyful sibling moment against a freshly painted wall, the brand repositions paint from a functional purchase to the quiet backdrop of lasting memories.
- Charmis: “Soft Ties That Never Get Undone”: A rakhi is a tie that’s temporary, but the bond it represents isn’t. Charmis extends that idea to its own category, skincare, framing its products as a form of care that, like sibling love, is meant to last well beyond the ritual of the day.
About Schbang
Schbang, established in 2015, is an AI first Creative, Media, Technology Transformation company with offices across Mumbai, Bangalore, Gurugram, London and Amsterdam. With a team of 1000+ members, it delivers growth-driven end-to-end solutions across creative development, strategic advisory, film production, web, design, content, data science, and media planning & buying verticals. It is also a valued Google Premier Partner, Meta, Adobe, Hubspot, MoEngage, Shopify, and Zoho Premium Partner.
Over the years, Schbang has been featured as a LinkedIn Top 25 start-up in 2018 and 2021 and on the Financial Times’ 450 High Growth Companies in the Asia Pacific List. In the last 11 years. Schbang has created many exciting and award-winning digital work for brands like Jio, Britannia, MTR, Fevicol, L’Oréal, Cipla, Lego, Crompton, Philips, VISA, Castrol, Bridgestone, HDFC, Kotak811, McCain, ITC, Mahindra Rise, etc and has won 200+ awards, including Cairns Crocodiles South Asia Campaign Of The Year 2026.
