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Hrithik Roshan redefines health & fitness with ‘Defeat Defeat’
MUMBAI: The Greek God of Bollywood, Hrithik Roshan has redefined health and fitness in the country as he launches his brand film Defeat Defeat for HRX in association with Myntra.com.
The film depicts his relentless endeavour of overcoming personal struggles and achieving victory over all. Said the man himself, “Everyone including me has been defeated in life. But success comes to those who rise above defeat and understand how to deal with it. I realized that defeat isn’t a real thing, it’s just an illusion. A clever work of the mind. This short film is an attempt to spread this message and encourage people not to be afraid, not to give up and forget what failure means before you give victory a shot.”
The actor’s apparel brand HRX, retailed exclusively on Myntra.com is inspired by the superstar’s style and philosophy, created to not just reflect his stardom but also his incredible story of defeating defeat. Roshan further said, “I am happy that we have been able to conceptualize and translate this adventurous spirit into great style and fashion through HRX.”
Enthused about launching the Defeat Defeat campaign with Hrithik, Myntra Fashion Brands head Abhishek Verma believed that it encourages people to defeat the mental barriers that stops one from achieving his/her goals. “It has been phenomenal working with Hrithik to develop this campaign. We hope this brand film will be well received by his fans and others who have a strong passion for a healthy & positive lifestyle.”
He added, “It’s been a year since the birth of HRX and today it is one of the leading brands on Myntra.com.”
Commenting on the launch of this campaign, Exceed Entertainment founder Afsar Zaidi said, “The philosophy, the rules by which Hrithik leads his life has been rolled out in the form of brand HRX. For us, at Exceed Entertainment, it was a challenge that we took upon ourselves to make it into a reality. Defeat Defeat campaign is the message that HRX stands for – Keep moving at all times.”
Shot in an old abandoned warehouse, Roshan shot bare bodied and at a stretch for over 21 hours.
Embodied in the brand’s tagline ‘Push Your Extreme’, the actor has been going all out to inspire and encourage people to defeat ‘defeat’ and push themselves beyond their limits.
Since the launch of his brand film on 5 February, 2015 the campaign has received positive reviews across social platforms with lakhs of views. The campaign also witnessed the actor evangelizing his philosophy on Twitter, along with his fellow co-stars Sonakshi Sinha, Bipasha Basu, Arjun Kapoor, SidharthMalhotra and Sophie Choudry among others.
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.
