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Hyndai i20 ‘casts a spell’ with its new TVC
MUMBAI: Hyundai i20 is going all out with an array of new TVCs across the World Wide Web and television sets. The TVCs in question here is conceptualised by Innocean Worldwide.
The two commercials for Hyundai i20 ‘The Hyundai i20 casts a spell‘ and ‘A Spy and his ‘Uber Cool‘ drive‘ is completely focused on the car‘s features for the target group in the segment.
The objective behind the campaign was to drive viewers towards the brand‘s dominance across media and digital platforms simultaneously.
The ‘Cast a Spell‘ has gone viral and garnered more than seven lakh views on YouTube within a short span of 10 days. The ad film is conceptualised by the creative trio of Saurabh Dasgupta, Allen Charles and George Koshy. The ad film has been aired on TV and digital platforms like YouTube and other social media.
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Speaking about the campaign, Innocean Worldwide executive creative director Saurabh Dasgupta said, “The objective was to give an uber twist to a story of a ghost and an i20 driver, by way of the ghost getting spooked by the cars features that were intuitive and seemingly supernatural.”
The TVC shows a young executive returning from a hard day‘s work when he unassumingly comes across a stunning lady dressed in black standing all alone. By the time he realises that he is next to a cemetery, the lady is shown seated next to him magically and orders him to drive. But at the end of the TV commercial ghost decides to vanish as she came across the car‘s features which offers package of auto headlamps, rain sensing wipers, daytime running lamps and rear parking camera.
The other ad film ‘A spy and his ‘Uber Cool‘ car‘ film meant for usage on the television medium. It has been premiered on the ongoing telecast of Champions Trophy on ESPN wherein Hyundai is there as a sponsor in its capacity as official partner of ICC. The film has been written by Koustuv Chaterjee ECD at Innocean. Herein the intent is to epitomise the unusual traits of the Uber Cool i20 user.
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According to Chaterjee, “This story is one that thrills you. Its pushes the boundaries of uber cool portrayals done so far. The protagonist is a spy who gets the better of his opponents only to find himself racing against odds to keep his appointment with his girl-friend. Tied-up he still manages a getaway in an exciting fashion aided by the superlative innovations in the feature list of the car.”
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Commenting on the brand, Innocean Arjun Modayil executive director said, “The brand definitely outshines its competitors like Suzuki Swift, VW Polo etc in terms of appeal and buzz.”
Putting the overall approach in perspective Innocean joint managing director Vivek Srivastava added, “Our client Hyundai Motor India has adopted a dynamic approach towards enhancing its models/brands appeal. The intent is towards buzz creation and increase brands consideration across in the medium term. Going further the synergised deployment of digital, print, OOH and TV will become the norm for our communication strategies to stay ahead of the curve all through.”
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Eight-year-old coder steals the show at India AI Impact Summit 2026
Ranvir Sachdeva meets Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman, links ancient philosophy to modern AI
DELHI: Amid a sea of global tech chiefs and policy heavyweights, the loudest buzz at Bharat Mandapam this week came from a boy barely tall enough to see over the lectern.
Ranvir Sachdeva, eight, became the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, elbowing his way into a line-up dominated by chief executives, founders and ministers. Calm, bespectacled and fiercely articulate, he declared himself a technologist — and spoke like one.
“I’m here as the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit. I’m talking about how I’m linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day technologies. I’m also covering the different approaches which the rest of the nations are building AI,” he told news agency ANI.
He added: “I’m talking about how India is building AI with. I’m sharing my own use case of an Indian AI model just released and how I’m contributing to India’s GDP and driving AI literacy with it.”
The summit, held from February 16 to 21 in New Delhi, has drawn global names. Ranvir met Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman on the sidelines, sharing photographs of the encounters. He has previously met Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and Doreen Bogdan-Martin, secretary-general of the International Telecommunication Union, at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva.
In 2024, he met António Guterres, United Nations secretary-general.
His most high-profile brush with corporate royalty came earlier. In 2023, during the opening of Apple’s Delhi store, Ranvir demonstrated his Swift coding skills to Apple chief executive Tim Cook in a one-on-one session. Cook later posted: “What an incredible reception, Delhi, thank you! We’re delighted to welcome our customers to our newest store—Apple Saket!”
What an incredible reception, Delhi, thank you! We’re delighted to welcome our customers to our newest store—Apple Saket! pic.twitter.com/5Jmi79ixzl— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) April 20, 2023
Ranvir replied publicly: “Thank you so much, @tim_cook! It was great meeting you today and showcasing my Apple Swift coding skills! You are an inspiration and I so want to meet you at #WWDC2023!”
Thank you so much, Tim! You are an inspiration and I so want to meet you at #WWDC2023 ! 🙂 https://t.co/BVthznLjD8— Ranvir Singh Sachdeva (@ranvirsachdeva) April 20, 2023
The invitation followed. Cook extended a personal call for Ranvir to attend the Worldwide Developers Conference 2023 at Apple Park in Cupertino.
This is not Ranvir’s first turn on the global stage. In 2025, aged seven, he addressed the United Nations’ AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva as its youngest keynote speaker. He spoke for 20 minutes on “Agents of Change: A 7-Year-Old’s Lens on Generation AI for Good”, in front of more than 10,000 attendees from over 180 countries and 53 UN partner organisations.
He shared the broader stage with Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel laureate and Turing Award winner, alongside senior figures from Amazon, Meta and Salesforce. According to a LinkedIn post by the Ardee School, Ranvir argued that “Generation AI are the true changemakers”, highlighting healthcare breakthroughs from bionic solutions and exoskeletons to assistive devices for ALS patients. He called for the democratisation of such tools to bridge the digital divide.
The precocity runs deep. At six, he became the world’s youngest TEDx speaker, speaking on technology and innovation. At five, he won a gold medal as a “Super Presenter” in the 2022 Global Reading Challenge. Media reports say that in 2021 he built a prototype rocket aimed at supporting NASA’s Mars exploration, earning recognition from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 2023, he became the youngest recipient of a robotics and AI certification from IIT Delhi after a summer workshop at the I-HUB Foundation for Robotics.
He began coding at three.
At an event otherwise obsessed with trillion-dollar valuations, sovereign AI stacks and regulatory guardrails, it was a small voice that cut through. Linking Sanskrit thought to silicon chips, GDP to generative models, Ranvir Sachdeva did more than make history. He made the grown-ups listen.
#WATCH | Delhi: At #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, Ranvir Sachdeva, Child Prodigy, Technologist, Global Author says, "I'm here as the youngest keynote speaker at the India AI Impact Summit. I'm talking about how I'm linking ancient Indian philosophies to modern-day technologies. I'm… pic.twitter.com/e3OGgtxyDK— ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2026
