Who’s That Girl?

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I know this is highly random, but ever since I read the email Sree sent out via SAJA, I’ve been curious about “her”, too. That and I truly believe that every brown person in Amreeka is two degrees apart:

You know your wife indulges your South Asia obsessions when she calls you from a cab to alert you to a pretty desi woman on Broadway. A pretty, very tall desi woman – over 15 feet tall, actually. See the photos below to see who my wife called me about (it’s a billboard for Microsoft’s Office 2007 on Broadway between 50th and 49th Street in Manhattan, near Times Square). Now, let’s test the “all desis know each other” theory and see if one of you can identify this model. [SAJAforum]

Bigger picture of our mystery model after the jump. Click to enlarge both images. Or not.

Anyone know who this lovely is? Has she popped up elsewhere? Can we have a thread that doesn’t devolve in to retarded commentary regarding weight and skin color? PLEASE?

If you have to wax immature and vicious, aim that shit at Office 2007, which has brought me (and everyone else in my office) nothing but pain. Soooo not intuitive…

141 thoughts on “Who’s That Girl?”

  8. Tech support?

    HAR. Okay had to get that one out of the way 🙂

    (I’m a bit slow today…can someone explain the ad to me? Seriously…I don’t get what Windows 2007 and going crosstown have to do with each other.)

  11. her office has office 2007 so it’s worth going crosstown for because it’s a whole new day? admittedly, it’s a stretch but i think that’s what they were going for… the billboard where they had dancers on the walls was definitely more fun. or maybe that microsoft ad in europe with the guy trying to unhook the bra and then running into a password prompt. 🙂

  13. This is a great day because you can leave your house and buy MS Office. You won’t have a day this good until the next Microsoft product comes out, so enjoy it while it lasts. And don’t forget to take out your earbuds when you cross the street, or to drop your iPod in the path of an oncoming bus.

  17. Yay! She is the every[brown]woman! fierce.

    i don’t get the slogan though, it’s pretty bad.

  18. I like her already, regardless of the dress (which IS cute). Awww so superficial 🙂 I still won’t buy Office 2K7.

  19. ella no es india, usted gente muda que ella es mi amante colombina dulce. (she is not indian, you dumb people. she is my sweet columbian mistress.) 😀

  20. Stylish and gorgeous. Her identity must be, um, identified!

    And while we’re avoiding the newest versions of Microsoft 2007, Windows VISTA sucks butt.

  21. aim that shit at Office 2007, which has brought me (and everyone else in my office) nothing but pain. Soooo not intuitive

    I’ll bite. Can you please tell me what you hate so much about it? I’m just curious. Whats the most unintuitive thing about Office 2007?

  23. 19 · buster de la burbuja(bubble buster) on April 11, 2007 02:21 AM · Direct link ella no es india, usted gente muda que ella es mi amante colombina dulce. (she is not indian, you dumb people. she is my sweet columbian mistress.) 😀

    ella no es DE india

    the way you had it read “she is not india”

  25. I know her — she looks great on the outside — unfortunately, she comes with a lot of baggage (8 billion terabytes of hard disk space), leaves you when you need her the most (could my version of Word crash any more?!), and there’s far better alternatives out there for the taking (StarOffice, Google Docs, heck, even Apple’s iWork).

  27. I started singing Who’s that girl…la la la by Eve.

    She is very pretty. I love her dress and her bag.

  33. her ? she’s well dressed, no doubt about that.. she has the “I am a sophisticated business professional” look to her clothes..

    But I have seen more attractive Indian women before.. She’s too light skinned, she would be more attractive if she was darker..

  35. And it’s weird how in India (well in the south atleast), they don’t even look at facial features, they just look at skin tone, they consider light skinned women to be more attractive regardless of the facial features..

    But I find that most Indian women look better when they are darker unless they are really really attractive..

    this particular woman looks like she would look better if she was darker, because her skin tone looks like she is white but her features are very Indian looking so it does not look right..

  36. seen the billboard, and i guess i’m the only asshole who doesn’t think she’s anything special?

  38. I guess we’ve come a long way when we can get fairly average looking south asian women on billboards in NYC.

  39. Yo Filmiholic and Sonia:

    The comment about the Colombian mistress (#19)was such idiotic anglo trollery that it’s pointless to try to ‘correct’ the Spanish in an attempt to call them out on it.

    I know you probably don’t mean it like it sounds, but it’s considered a form of classist bullying to correct someone’s Spanish when you aren’t an elder (abuela, tio, etc.) to them. Just a little FYI for your real world interactions. 🙂

    Many of us 3rd genr latinos speak Spanish differently than our grandparents. Sometimes we make errors in grammar, merging urban street slang English, Yoruba or Creole into our Spanish.I have been known to mix it up with some Arabic too.

    Hey, my English (as exhibited here) isn’t all that great. Language evolves though, and no matter how many professoras contend that we must ‘preserve’ the classical Spanish, whatever that is, it continues to be a tool that some of us see as improvable in our own way.

    I just couldn’t keep my mouth shut, even if it was about a response to a troll.

    Now back to your regularly scheduled thread re: the beauty on the billboard. I like her serene, madonna smile.

  41. Desi seem to show up in the orbit of Microsoft more.

    I remember a set of Visual Studio ads using a caca. In fact he reappears in the installer. Also, their Ms. Dewey campaign for Microsoft Live Search used Janina Gavankar as the naughty mistress of search.

    I know there’s been more, but I can’t point to them right now. I blame a lack of coffee.

  42. I guess we’ve come a long way when we can get fairly average looking south asian women on billboards in NYC.

    yeah, I guess it is good for desi’s in NY, and good for society as a whole.. but models are supposed to be attractive, I don’t want to see average looking people on advertisements (unless they are modeling clothes for average looking people or something like that)..

  43. yeah, I guess it is good for desi’s in NY, and good for society as a whole.. but models are supposed to be attractive, I don’t want to see average looking people on advertisements

    Blah blah blah. You’re of below-average intelligence, and I’m not calling you out on your shit. Show some tact.

  44. yeah, I guess it is good for desi’s in NY, and good for society as a whole.. but models are supposed to be attractive, I don’t want to see average looking people on advertisements (unless they are modeling clothes for average looking people or something like that)..

    Dunno if you are aware that Microsoft’s advertising campaign has been like this for a long time, normal people who do normal things who use normal software, their advertising is much larger in Asia, they got America and the EU by the balls when it comes to desktop software, primarily due to english and european languages. Its the asian market which their market share is lagging in, thus the need to pump much more into advertising, if you get a chance go to Singapore or Shanghai, you will be bombarded with more MS advertising than you see for American Idol here.

  45. She is purrty..i likes speaking of advertising to the desi crowd, I love the new Chrysler ad with desis showing pictures of their family…its howlarius

  46. Blah blah blah. You’re of below-average intelligence, and I’m not calling you out on your shit. Show some tact.

    Kobayashi – hahaha, realize that with your superior intelligence, that Sadaiyappan maybe tactless, but makes a valid point regarding advertising. Market studies prove that more attractive product models sell more products than regular looking people, perhaps it doesn’t correlate with the software industry as much , however if you ever have gone to CES you’ll realize that every tech company hires superhot models, look at godaddy.com. Also I think we’re all in agreeance if you are a straight man that the Victoria Secret commercials with Gisele and Adriana Lima wouldn’t have nearly the same affect as lets say the woman on this billboard?

  47. anna, dude i think she might be sister to my friend nisha (who i never met though). i remember her telling me she’s a model in nyc. and this girl strictly looks like her sister. i’m gonna call her up and find out for you.

    I truly believe that every brown person in Amreeka is two degrees apart

    word.

  48. Also I think we’re all in agreeance if you are a straight man that the Victoria Secret commercials with Gisele and Adriana Lima wouldn’t have nearly the same affect as lets say the woman on this billboard?

    I’m in “agreeance” with no such nonsense. This lady is very beautiful, very appealing, unlike the underfed clotheshorses in the VS stable.

  49. Saw it a couple of days ago. Love it. Love that it’s stylish. I think that’s a Tahari from Spring that she’s wearing and it looks like any woman walking down the street in the city.

    Actually come to think of it almost all the technology ads today, SAP, Microsoft, Verizon, Intel etc have some kind of desi scenario in it. Whether it’s a guy in a rickshaw in Mumbai or a guy eating breakfast with his family in his flat in Mumbai before heading off to work or some silly sounding brown man pitching his plan for success to a bunch of CEOs or the Ramaswamy (not sure if I got that name right) family across the street getting the better wireless plan America is browning and it’s lovely 🙂

  50. I’m in “agreeance” with no such nonsense. This lady is very beautiful, very appealing, unlike the underfed clotheshorses in the VS stable.

    LOL, you are a better man than most, yet somehow i smell bullshit somewhere