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Clinic Plus celebrates the powerful bond between Mothers and Daughters on Daughter’s Day with #MeriBetiStrong
MUMBAI: Recognizing the central role mothers play in building their daughters into strong individuals, Clinic Plus launched a heartening #MeriBetiStrong campaign to celebrate their relationship on Daughter’s Day. Focused on addressing the need for change in society, which has been traditionally rooted in patriarchy, the campaign by Clinic Plus depicts how mothers across cultural and social backgrounds are using their own experiences to create strong foundations for their daughters, and inspiring them grow into better, stronger versions of themselves.
Conceptualized and created in association with Ogilvy India, #MeriBetiStrong beautifully captures subtle nuances of the bond through conversations between different duos where the mother, while braiding her daughter’s hair, reminisces over the many roles she has played through her years, and advices her daughter on how she could accomplish those differently – with greater forte against all odds. The daughter listens intently, further underlining the formidable connection between the two!
Harman Dhillon, Vice President, Hair Care, Hindustan Unilever said, “Our purpose at Unilever is to make sustainable living commonplace. As a Company, we have three strong beliefs – Brands with Purpose Grow, Companies with Purpose Last and People with Purpose Thrive. We recognise that the biggest impact we can have on the society is through our purpose-driven brands.
Clinic Plus recognizes that a mother plays the most pivotal role in the early formative years of her daughter, and she can truly shape her thinking. It is the voice of many mothers who instil strength and belief in their daughters every day. With the #MeriBetiStrong movement, Clinic Plus is sowing a powerful, yet transformational seed in society – one that will inspire and bind mothers across India irrespective of ethnicities, regions, religions and cultures to raise their daughters strong. We are positive that every small push in the right direction will go a long way in changing the way our country raises its daughters”
Added Anurag Agnihotri, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy India (West), “Girls are not born weak – societal conditioning makes them so! Right from childhood the noise around how to walk, sit, dress, and even when and whom to marry results in conditioning so pervasive, that they forget their own strength. Only one voice has the power to stop this, and that is the mothers’! only she can make sure her daughter grows up strong. Infact a mother’s wish that her daughter become stronger than her is so natural that it’s almost a truism. With this simple thought, our work tries to dismantle restricting mindsets not just in society but also among mothers and daughters themselves.”
Released on YouTube on 21st September 2019, #MeriBetiStrong hopes to ignite meaningful conversations around the lessons of strength that need to be imparted to daughters in their formative years.
Digital
Content India 2026 opens with a copro pitch, a spice evangelist and a £10,000 prize for Indian storytelling
Dish TV and C21Media’s three-day summit puts seven ambitious projects before an international jury, and two walk away with serious development money
MUMBAI: India’s content industry gathered in Mumbai this March for Content India 2026, a three-day summit organised by Dish TV in partnership with C21Media, and it wasted no time making a statement. The event opened with a Copro Pitch that put seven scripted and unscripted television concepts before an international panel of judges, and by the end of it, two projects had walked away with £10,000 each in marketing prize money from C21Media to support development and international promotion.
The jury, comprising Frank Spotnitz, Fiona Campbell, Rashmi Bajpai, Bal Samra and Rachel Glaister, evaluated a shortlist that ranged from a dark Mumbai comedy-drama about mental health (Dirty Minds, created by Sundar Aaron) to a Delhi coming-of-age mystery (Djinn Patrol, by Neha Sharma and Kilian Irwin), a techno-thriller about a teenage gaming prodigy (Kanpur X Satori, by Suchita Bhatia), an investigative crime drama blending mythology and modern thriller (The Age of Kali, by Shivani Bhatija), a documentary on India’s spice heritage (The Masala Quest, hosted by Sarina Kamini), a documentary on competitive gaming (Respawn: India’s Esports Revolution, by George Mangala Thomas and Sangram Mawari), and a reality-horror competition merging gaming and immersive fear (Scary Goose, by Samar Iqbal).
The session was hosted by Mayank Shekhar.
The two winners were Djinn Patrol, backed by Miura Kite, formerly of Participant Media and known for Chinatown and Keep Sweet: Pray & Obey, with Jaya Entertainment, producers of Real Kashmir Football Club, also attached; and The Masala Quest, created and hosted by Sarina Kamini, an Indian-Australian cook, author and self-described “spice evangelist.”
The summit also unveiled the Content India Trends Report, whose findings made for bracing reading. Daoud Jackson, senior analyst at OMDIA, set the tone: “By 2030, online video in India will nearly double the revenue of traditional TV, becoming the main driver of growth.” He noted that in 2025, India produced a quarter of all YouTube videos globally, overtaking the United States, while Indians collectively spend 117 years daily on YouTube and 72 years on Instagram. Traditional subscription TV is declining as free TV and connected TV gain ground, forcing broadcasters to innovate. “AI-generated content is just 2 per cent of engagement,” Jackson added, “highlighting the dominance of high-quality human content. The key for Indian media companies is scaling while monetising effectively from day one.”
Hannah Walsh, principal analyst at Ampere Analysis, added hard numbers to the picture. India produced over 24,000 titles in January 2026 alone, with 19,000 available internationally. The country now accounts for 12 per cent of Asia-Pacific content spend, up from 8 per cent in 2021, outpacing both Japan and China. Key exporters include JioStar, Zee Entertainment, Sony India, Amazon and Netflix, delivering over 7,500 Indian-produced titles abroad each year. The top importing markets are Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, the United States and the Philippines. Scripted content dominates globally at 88 per cent, with crime dramas and children’s and family titles performing particularly strongly.
Manoj Dobhal, chief executive and executive director of Dish TV India, framed the summit’s ambition squarely. “Stories don’t need translation. They need a platform, discovery, and reach, local or global,” he said. “India produces more movies than any country, our streaming platforms compete globally, and our tech and creators win international awards. Yet fragmentation slows growth. Producers, platforms, and tech move in different lanes. We need shared spaces, collaboration, and an ecosystem where ideas, technology, and people meet. That is why we built Content India.”
The data, the pitches and the prize money all pointed to the same conclusion: India is not waiting for the world to discover its stories. It is building the infrastructure to sell them.
