Ad Campaigns
Medlife’s new campaign urges people to “Lafaddu Matt Bano”
MUMBAI: Online healthcare platform, Medlife, is bolstering its marketing and communication efforts with a new campaign, ‘Lafaddu Lal’.
The campaign aims to showcase the ease, comfort and convenience of ordering medicines online. Medlife’s unique features like monthly subscription for medicines are also presented in a light-hearted way. Through this campaign, Medlife continues to build on the brand promise of being ‘obsessed with health’, urging people to explore the convenience of an e-pharmacy or risk being labeled ‘Lafaddu Lal’!
Medlife’s unique offerings include a 48-hour delivery promise with an assurance of ‘100% Genuine Medicines’. It also offers assured savings on medicines every time a person places an order on the app. It also has a subscription feature through which, consumers with a chronic illness can get their monthly refills on-time without the hassle of running around the pharmacies.
This 360o campaign, conceived by Soho Square, Bengaluru, features actors Boman Irani and Varun Sharma as a comical father-son duo. Boman plays a father who is particular about his medication and Varun as his ‘Lafaddu’ son who keeps forgetting to order his dad’s medicines from Medlife.
These humorous films are supported through print and outdoor mediums as well. They show the father-son duo in different scenarios to bring out various benefits and offerings, available on the Medlife app.
Medlife International CEO Tushar Kumar says, “Both Boman and Varun bring in a dash of freshness to the brand and stand for everything that clearly defines the attributes of Medlife viz. New-age, energetic, cheerful, aspirational, innovative and consistent. We are really kicked up about this association and hope the journey ahead is going to be furthermore exciting.”
Soho Square India chairman and chief creative officer Sumanto Chattopadhyay summarises the series of films as a chuckle-inducing campaign featuring a slightly sarcastic father and his bumbling son, help us deliver Medlife’s message in a memorable way.
The consumer looks for availability, price and convenience and that’s what our film communicates in a light-hearted manner. Sarcasm and carelessness between a father and son is a very relatable behavior in the Indian context. Lafaddu Lal is the creative idea that binds the relationship. And, who better than Boman and Varun to play the characters!”
The new ad campaign will be launched on the digital platform at the onset, followed by a strategic media plan for television, outdoor and print, to get the desired impact.
NATIONAL: Amazon Ads has laid out a sharply tech-led vision for the advertising industry in 2026, arguing that artificial intelligence, streaming TV and creator partnerships will combine to turn brand building into a more precise, performance-driven business.
At the heart of the shift, the company says, is the fusion of AI with Amazon’s vast trove of shopping, browsing and streaming signals, allowing advertisers to move beyond blunt reach metrics to campaigns designed around real customer behaviour.
“The future of advertising is not about reaching more people, but the right people with messages that resonate,” said Amazon Ads India head and vice president Girish Prabhu. “By combining AI with deep customer insights, we help brands move from broadcasting campaigns to having meaningful conversations wherever audiences spend their time.”
One of the biggest changes, according to Amazon Ads, will be the collapse of the wall between media planning and creative development. Retail media, powered by first-party data, is increasingly shaping everything from brand discovery to final purchase, pushing marketers to design campaigns around audience insight rather than internal instinct.
AI is also moving from a support tool to a creative engine. Agentic AI, which automates and accelerates production, is expected to make high-quality creative accessible even to small businesses, compressing weeks of work into hours and giving challengers the ability to compete with larger brands on speed and scale.
Behind the scenes, AI-driven analytics will take on a bigger role in campaign optimisation, identifying patterns, spotting opportunities and recommending actions that would previously have required teams of analysts.
Streaming TV is another big battleground. With India’s video streaming audience now above 600 million and connected TV users at 129.2 million in 2025, advertisers are set to treat streaming not just as a branding channel but as a performance engine, measured increasingly by sales, sign-ups and bookings rather than just reach.
Finally, Amazon Ads sees creators and contextual advertising reshaping how brands tell stories. Creators will act less like influencers and more like long-term partners, while scene-aware ads on streaming platforms will allow brands to insert hyper-relevant offers into the flow of what viewers are watching.
Taken together, Amazon Ads argues, these shifts mark a move towards advertising that is both more human and more measurable, where AI handles the complexity, and creativity does the persuading.
