On February 17, at Vogue Values: Women of Excellence, presented by Tira, the leadership and entrepreneurship panel could easily have been a victory lap. On stage were Samantha Ruth Prabhu, actor, investor and now producer; Chetna Gala Sinha, who founded Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank, India’s first bank by and for rural women; and Mira Rajput Kapoor, building Dhun Wellness and Akind, her skincare brand. Instead of sticking to wins and milestones, the trio also lingered on the setbacks that rarely make it into a celebratory montage.
Six Ways To Sunday
When the topic of failure came up, Ruth Prabhu didn’t hesitate. She spoke about the early years of her career, when she was “just ticking boxes according to what society told me what success meant”—endorsements, films, blockbuster hits, more of everything. It was working, until it wasn’t. At what she described as the peak of her career, she was diagnosed with a rare, chronic autoimmune condition and had to step away from work for two years. “I was suddenly bedridden, unable to work,” she says.
The first year, she admitted, was full of frustration and “why me?” The second year became about rethinking everything. If she ever got to make a comeback, it had to look different. She stopped endorsing brands she didn’t believe in and began investing only in products she personally used and tested for a year before putting her name behind them. “I don’t make the same mistakes that I did before and things have gotten visibly so much better,” she shared with the audience. Health and wellness have become non-negotiables. She reads more about the products and brands that come her way and is specific about what she will and won’t attach herself to. “Success just made me lazy and overconfident. Failure made the greatest change in my life.” It made her stricter, smarter, stronger.
When Mira Rajput Kapoor introduced seven-day wellness programs at Dhun, the value made sense on paper, but “it completely fell flat,” she says. The internet fixated on the highest number without understanding the format. So, she and her team went back to the drawing board. They reworked the structure into different options with different price points, allowing customers to customise based on their interests and goals—and it worked. She realised that her vision hadn’t translated, so she rewrote it.
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