{"id":682,"date":"2007-11-05T00:45:16","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/11\/05\/petronas-deepavali-message-based-on-true-story\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T00:45:16","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:45:16","slug":"petronas-deepavali-message-based-on-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/11\/05\/petronas-deepavali-message-based-on-true-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Petronas Deepavali message based on true story"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KUALA LUMPUR: Visually-impaired M. Thavasothy is determined to inspire Malaysians through the latest Petronas Deepavali television commercial. <\/p>\n

Thavasothy, a 55-year-old History teacher, believes that failure is never an obstacle in life but a stepping-stone to success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\u00c2\u00bbThere is always a light within us to overcome challenges\u00c2\u00ab M. THAVASOTHY<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Themed The wisdom, strength, and courage to succeed is within you<\/i>, the commercial is based on Thavasothy's life as someone who has always determined to live a normal and respectable life without any special treatment.   <\/p>\n

In the 120-second commercial, Thavasothy plays himself taking on daily challenges with courage to build a comfortable life for his family. <\/p>\n

"There is always a light within us to overcome challenges and I hope people, by watching the commercial will be inspired and have the determination to succeed in everything they do," said Thavasothy, who was born blind and is a father of two.  <\/p>\n

Advertising agency Leo Burnett senior copywriter Jovian Lee said Thavasothy was an inspirational person. <\/p>\n

"He wrote most of the script, leaving the creative team with not much to do," Lee added. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Real life: Thavasothy playing himself in one segment of the Petronas Deepavali television commercial.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The commercial aired from yesterday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

source KUALA LUMPUR: Visually-impaired M. Thavasothy is determined to inspire Malaysians through the latest Petronas Deepavali television commercial.  Thavasothy, a 55-year-old History teacher, believes that failure is never an obstacle in life but a stepping-stone to success.  \u00c2\u00bbThere is always a light within us to overcome challenges\u00c2\u00ab M. THAVASOTHY Themed The wisdom, strength, and courage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}