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Airtel and Jio get into 5G sprint
October 8, 2022
Last week as the 5G network was officially launched in India by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the India Mobile Congress (IMC), two of the biggest players in telecom, market leader Reliance Jio and its closest rival Bharti Airtel announced their own plans to start rolling out th...
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Top 10 Indian shows on OTT platforms
September 20, 2022
The Indian audience has become pickier with the content it consumes and has recently developed a taste for digital arts. The outdated storytelling approach of television turned many disappointed Indian audiences towards alternatives and increasingly they are finding them on the n...
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Zee and Sony merger to raise heat in television space
January 2, 2022
Seeking to consolidate its entertainment businesses, sprawled across the world, Japanese conglomerate Sony had zeroed in on India as a market where it would either seek to be in the top three players or exit the market entirely. As part of this exercise, Sony had been aggressivel...
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No Way Home trumps Omicron fears
December 27, 2021
Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios, the producers of the latest superhero film, Spiderman: No Way Home announced that over the film crossed the USD 1 billion mark over the Christmas weekend, and was thus the first billion-dollar-grossing film of the pandemic era and also one of t...
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Back to the big screen: Regional films pick up speed abroad
November 14, 2021
The lockdowns imposed to counter the Covid-19 pandemic had a devastating impact on the film industry in countries across the world and in India. With big blockbusters being continuously postponed, film festivals being cancelled or moving online, shootings halted and hundreds of t...
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Adressing Bollywood’s obsession with ‘Brownface’
June 7, 2021
The controversy over an advertisement of skin whitening cream ‘Fair & Lovely’ last year reignited the debate over colour preference that has dogged the Indian society for decades, if not centuries. As the society has chased the idea that beauty is indeed skin deep, the co...
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Web series that rose to unscaled heights in 2020
December 31, 2020
While everyone was locked inside homes and the theatres shut, OTT dominated the screens this year. The entertainment industry churned out brilliant web-series with intricately woven and multi-layered plots that hooked the audience for the entire lockdown. The dramatic hooks and e...
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5 Indian diaspora actors that ruled 2020
December 31, 2020
This year, two Indian actors starred in shows that were trending on Twitter within hours of their release on Netflix. Tamil-Canadian newcomer Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, who plays the lead in Mindy Kaling’s new show Never Have I Ever and London-born actor Rahul Kohli, with his hor...
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Industries that pipped the pandemic
September 20, 2020
“I stopped taking food from local tiffin service since April. I switched to ordering from Swiggy regularly as it assured me of following all possible safety and hygiene measures including the body temperature of the delivery person and cleanliness rating of the restaurant I ord...
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Binge watching on rise in India: DAN report
September 20, 2020
India’s on demand digital streaming industry surpassed the national film industry in terms of both viewership and growth. With entertainment gone online coupled with a surge in online gamers, the pandemic has proven to be a fillip to the sector with consumers confined to their ...
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