Tag: Shruti Hasan

  • “Uncut, unfiltered, uninhibited says Shruti Haasan on creating her community on coto

    “Uncut, unfiltered, uninhibited says Shruti Haasan on creating her community on coto

    Mumbai: Known for her authenticity, actor-singer Shruti Haasan has always encouraged women to embrace boldness, break stereotypes, and make unconventional choices. In her world, rules don’t define possibilities; it’s a realm where empowerment flourishes. Furthering this commitment to support and uplift women, the “Monster Machine” singer has joined coto, a social community platform exclusively for women with her community ‘Urban Chudails’.  

    Shruti strongly believes in staying true to oneself—an affirmation of her core values. 
    “Embracing the title of an ‘Urban Chudail’ should be viewed as a positive attribute, celebrating unabashed authenticity, particularly among women. In the vibrant metropolitan setting, women encapsulate diverse personas, each distinct, contributing to their unique ‘Chudail’ identity. Some openly express their sexual orientation, while others enthusiastically embrace solo travel or find freedom in independent living. Fostering this diversity, especially on a platform like coto is essential as it will allow women to appreciate and celebrate the individual qualities that make each of them a unique and remarkable ‘Chudail’ in their own right.”

    Reflecting on her childhood and experiences in the entertainment industry, Shruti Haasan added, “Growing up and working in showbiz taught me a lot. Thanks to my upbringing, I’ve always been outspoken, which has played a big role in my success. I want every woman to embrace fearlessness. To me, being an ‘Urban Chudail’ is a positive concept—it symbolises strength, not just a label. In the digital age, it’s a celebration of being unique and fearless. While times have changed, there’s still some unfair stigma around unconventional choices that needs to be addressed”.

    Having been a strong advocate for healing crystals, manifestation, and higher powers, Shruti views them as creative extensions of herself. Taking this belief a step further, her community on coto is an open invitation for women of different personas to join—a diverse mix of ‘Chudails.’ It welcomes and celebrates the unique qualities each woman brings to the community. Thus, creating a space where women from diverse backgrounds having various perspectives are embraced and can also freely discuss various topics including self-expression, sexual and mental wellness, career, life, music, and art.

    To see what Shruti’s community looks like, click here-  

    Join Shruti’s community Urban Chudails on coto!

    Here’s where you can download coto:

    For Android- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=world.eve.coto

    For iOS – https://apps.apple.com/in/app/coto/id1639803523

  • Soon to be erstwhile, Philips Lighting launches IoT platform in India

    Soon to be erstwhile, Philips Lighting launches IoT platform in India

    BENGALURU: After dilution of its stake to less than majority by Royal Philips in Philips Lighting, the latter lost its Philips moniker to be renamed as Signify. This change is set to happen in the India subsidiary also, starting 1 January 2019 – the start of Philips group companies financial year. However, the new company will very much continue selling Philips branded products. Signify (the erstwhile Philips Lighting), the world leader in lighting, today launched its new Internet of Things (IoT) platform, called Interact in India, which will enable its professional customers to unlock the full potential of connected lighting for the IoT. The platform delivers new insights to help customers drive operational efficiencies and take more effective decisions. It also supports the company’s strategy to deliver new data-enabled services as value expands from lighting products and systems to services.

    Launching the platform in India, Signify’s operations in India  vice chairman and managing director Sumit Padmakar Joshi said, “First, we led the way in energy efficient LED lighting, then in connecting lighting to deliver operational benefits for our customers. Now that light points are smart enough to collect data on their performance and the environment around them, we are tapping into that intelligence. By analysing the data from our connected lights, devices and systems, our goal is to create safer cities, energy efficient buildings and industries and smarter retail stores in the country. We are confident that this platform will deliver immense value for our professional lighting customers in India”.

    In addition, data from authorised third-parties can also be analysed by Interact. For example, for a municipal authority, news articles and social media posts, reacting to a new lighting installation on a bridge, can be analysed and data sent to a social impact app dashboard that summarises the public sentiment.

    Signify has already installed 29 million connected light points worldwide and plans for every new LED product it produces to be connectable by 2020 says a company press release. Potential users include complete cities – and Signify says that it has been involved in more than 1,000 smart projects including cities across the world, business, malls, sports arenas, even one’s own home. Available now are:

    Interact Office – enables you to turn your office into a smart sustainable workspace with software that allows you to increase building efficiency and employee productivity.

    Interact City – helps improve street lighting, safety, reduce energy consumption, improve efficiency and support your sustainability goals and beautify the urban landscape across roads.

    Interact Retail – enables customers to group, zone and schedule connected lighting to create stopping power in stores. It also supports in-store location-based marketing services to increase shopper engagement and indoor navigation to improve staff productivity.

    Interact Landmark – aids in managing and triggering light shows with dynamic architectural lighting to help increase tourism, regenerate downtown areas, and stimulate commerce.

    Interact Sports – aids in monitoring, managing and coordinating across all lighting infrastructure from a single dashboard from pitch lighting, entertainment light shows, hospitality areas and exterior architectural lighting.

    Interact Pro – an intuitive cloud-based software for small and medium enterprises that automates lighting and allows management via the Interact Pro dashboard.

    Most of the selling will be on a B2B basis using case studies of previous installations. The global market potential is huge – an estimated 300 billion light points says Joshi.

    The home segment has a potential of fifty percent of the new business – while Interact is more of a B2B platform, for the home user, Philips has already launched a brand – Philips Hue. To that effect the company had initiated a 360 degree mass media communications campaign earlier that included a TVC that featured Bollywood actors Ranbir Singh and Shruti Hasan. At present its brand communication is skewed towards print, the 180 Philips Light Lounges, BTL activities and the internet. Signify/Philips Lighting India plans to come up with another campaign in the first quarter of its fiscal 2019 revealed Signify/Philips Lighting India chief marketing manager Sukanto Aich towww.indiantelevision.com. Lowe handled the creative work, while Hawas the media buying.

  • American Swan ropes in Yo Yo Honey Singh as brand ambassador

    American Swan ropes in Yo Yo Honey Singh as brand ambassador

    MUMBAI: The global online fashion & lifestyle brand American Swan has signed up the Indian rapper Honey Singh as its brand ambassador. Launched in 2013, the brand is known for its smart casual wear for the youth and is targeted at the youngsters.

     

    About the partnership Honey Singh said, “I am excited to partner with American Swan and to be able to connect with the youth and inspire them to chase their dreams and script their destinies. It has been a great year for me and I am looking forward to create a music video for the brand. The brand positioning resonates with my quintessential approach to my life, music & work. The video will see me style in looks that my fans haven’t seen before.”

     

    American Swan will unveil the new identity along with the launch of its new collections-AS Premium and AS Original. As the youth in India look for global designs and standards with affordable pricing at the convenience of a click, American Swan expects to garner a significant share of the apparel & lifestyle market in the burgeoning ecommerce and mobile commerce market.

     

    Speaking about the association, American Swan director & CEO Anurag Rajpal said, “We are glad to announce our association with Yo Yo Honey Singh. We hope will be an iconic new avatar. While we constantly aim at building a fashion brand that can resonate in the hearts and mind of Gen Y youth, these major milestones will only cement the evolution of American Swan as we take a constructive leap towards a major expansion across the online space.”

     

    The brand has been promoting young talent since long by associating itself with various young achievers in past like Unmukt Chand , Shruti Hasan and Lauren Gottlieb and has espoused its Young Achievers campaign with them. The brand has also stepped into social media by initiating various online programme and formats like tweet store and beauty and the blogger event which has attained enormous success.

     

    To reinforce the brand’s philosophy, the brand will soon invite showbiz aspirants to get a chance to be featured in the Yo Yo Honey Singh music video.

     

    The company will build a customer base through a strong mobile, digital and social activation. The new brand video will be launched across touch points through a series of differentiated and engaging campaigns on website, social channels and mobile properties.