On Friendship Day, here are some of adland’s best friends talking about their friendships

• Our series, Lets Get Candid is us raising a toast to some enviable friendships in the ad industry today.
• We talk to Soumitra Karnik, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Impact, mcgarrybowen India, Dentsu India and Narayan Devanathan, CEO, DAN Solutions, India, Harshad Rajadhyaksha and Kainaz Karmakar, Chief Creative Officers at Ogilvy India and Rajdeepak Das, Managing Director and Chief Creative Officer, Leo Burnett South Asia and Sachin Kamble, National Creative Director, Leo Burnett who tell us what makes them click.

Mark Twain had famously written, ‘Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.’ I guess most of us would agree that in today’s context, this adage can easily be modified to, ‘Find a job you enjoy and a colleague you enjoy doing it with, and you will never have to work a day in your life.’

So for this Friendship Day, we thought we will reach out to some really close friends from the ad world, and talk to them about their relationships, what makes it work, and what they have learnt from each other. The result was three conversations where we got really candid with these six really brilliant people.

Watch our series, Lets Get Candid, for some hilarious conversations between Soumitra Karnik, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Impact, mcgarrybowen India, Dentsu India and Narayan Devanathan, CEO, DAN Solutions, India, Harshad Rajadhyaksha and Kainaz Karmakar, Chief Creative Officers at Ogilvy India and Rajdeepak Das, Managing Director and Chief Creative Officer, Leo Burnett South Asia and Sachin Kamble, National Creative Director, Leo Burnett.

Here’s raising a toast to friendship, Happy Friendship Day!

1. Soumitra Karnik, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Impact, mcgarrybowen India, Dentsu India and Narayan Devanathan, CEO, DAN Solutions, India


2. Harshad Rajadhyaksha and Kainaz Karmakar, Chief Creative Officers at Ogilvy India


3. Rajdeepak Das, Managing Director and Chief Creative Officer, Leo Burnett South Asia and Sachin Kamble, National Creative Director, Leo Burnett