Any interns who are lucky enough to attend the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity are usually seen wandering around in awe, absorbing as much of the experience as they can but hardly making a name for themselves with their creative work.

Rag Brahmbhatt and Nidhi Shah took a bit of a different path.

Instead of watching from the crowd and dreaming of the future during last Monday night’s Audio & Radio awards ceremony, they took to the stage and raised the Gold Lion they’d just won—as the Palais crowd cheered in approval.

The young Indian creative pair, who are interning at Serviceplan in Hamburg, Germany, won their Lion for a radio spot called “Otter” on behalf of client Macrogol Hexal. You can listen to it below, along with three other spots from the same campaign (which was a joint effort between Serviceplan Germany and Serviceplan Belgium).

“Otter” won in the Script category of the Audio & Radio Lions. The broader campaign was also shortlisted in the Use of Humor category, which was new to Cannes Lions this year.

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Brahmbhatt and Shah, who are students at Miami Ad School, said they were on the second day of their internship when Michael Wilk, global head of art at Serviceplan Group, mentioned the Macrogol Hexal brief. They quickly got to work.

“After a small discussion between us, we reluctantly pitched a poop joke inspired by the ‘popular British voice’ from nature documentaries,” said Brahmbhatt. “The concept was immediately well loved by Till Diestel [chief creative officer of Serviceplan Germany], and we were asked to prepare the first draft of the script.”

They spent the next two weeks writing poop jokes.

“It certainly helped to break the ice at our new agency,” said Shah. The client approved four spots, which Brahmbhatt and Shah made with Philipp Feit, chief creative officer of recording studio German Wahnsinn, perfecting the voiceover and adding the nature sounds that make the spots such a rich listening experience.

The agency submitted the work to Cannes, and when the shortlists were announced last Sunday, Brahmbhatt and Shah were overjoyed. “For us, this news was already unexpected, and we thought it would be the end of it,” said Brahmbhatt.

Little did they know they’d win not just a Lion but a Gold Lion, a top industry prize. Winning gold (unlike silver or bronze) meant they would get to walk up on stage in the Palais to accept the award, and the “Otter” spot would be played for the packed audience as well.

It made for a memorable moment:

“I love that you are kind of not knowing where [the ‘Otter’ spot] is going until the very end. And then it hits you,” Diestel said. “I think the reaction in the Palais showed that. Everyone was like, ‘What is going on?’ And then burst into laughter.”

Diestel said Brahmbhatt and Shah are model juniors, driven and passionate about working in the industry.

“They are the kind of young creatives we all want to work with,” he said. “They inspire us. Curious, passionate and already so knowledgeable of the current top creative work from around the world ... it is just pure fun to work with them.”

Looking back, Brahmbhatt and Shah can hardly believe the week they had at Cannes, although they’re an ambitious team who’ve dreamed of this since they started ad school.

“The whole process was as smooth as the laxative product,” Shah said of the Macrogol Hexal campaign. “Right from pitching the initial idea to having it submitted to Cannes, both Michael and Till truly trusted us with what we were doing, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the support.”

When their Serviceplan internship ends in September, the pair will already have a good conversation starter when they interview for their first full-time jobs.

“It means a lot to us to get this recognition from the industry where funny ideas are welcomed, and even awarded,” said Brahmbhatt. “We hope this story makes us reach the agencies we really love, land us a job, and inspires junior creatives from around the world to tell their ideas, without hesitation, no matter how big the stage is.”