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'Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai' is Kashyap's unique socio-political entertainer

"Choked" scores with a superb idea a cast that delivers with gusto. With a little more pace and storytelling punch, this could have been the season's wackiest OTT entertainer

OTT players diversify content libraries as regional movies, shows score big

Digital entertainers diversify the content libraries as language movies and shows score big in the lockdown

The corona deals

The pandemic will hurry the closure of brands and businesses that would have gone into gradual decline. Wait then for more deals to be announced in media and entertainment

An opportunity in disguise

Covid-19 offers an opportunity to improve cable subscription collections using digital platforms - a win-win for stakeholders

Meet Jaideep Ahlawat, the disillusioned cop of crime thriller Paatal Lok

After a decade of waiting in the wings, actor Jaideep Ahlawat is making waves with his first lead performance as a disillusioned cop in Paatal Lok, writes Ranjita Ganesan

Karan Johar to Rohit Shetty, big film producers say no to OTT release

Sources say the top four multiplex chains in the country - PVR, Inox, Cinepolis, and Carnival - are asking big producers to wait rather than rush to release their films on OTT platforms.

A Netflix series puts the media on trial. But real life is more dramatic

Produced by actor George Clooney, lawyer and author Jeffrey Toobin, and others, this documentary highlights how in some cases gavel-to-gavel coverage wasn't just a throwaway term.

India's internet speed improves over previous week, but still below peak

Fixed download speed in India was 35.84 Mbps. Both are marginally higher than the previous week

Injunction against 'Hasmukh' would be death knell for satire: Netflix to HC

Dubey has contended that "statements (in the series) are highly disparaging, defamatory and bring disrepute to the law profession"

Global business bodies nudge FM Sitharaman to defer equalisation levy

The bodies have also approached the US Trade Representative to call for discussion on India's move to impose equalisation levy while the matter is still under discussion at international level.

Read from home

One should worry, of course, about what this is doing to one small business sector in particular that was already under stress: Bookshops

Netflix adds 15.8 mn customers during quarantine, warns boost is temporary

Total revenue rose to $5.77 billion from $4.52 billion. Analysts on average had expected $5.76 billion

Binge-reading and -watching

Binge-watchers filling up empty days may ask: Why read a book when there's the movie? Apart from putting the cart before the horse, it's a lazy question

There's a treasure trove of short films out there. How to find them

Veer Arjun Singh carefully navigates YouTube to find a treasure trove of short films

10 new web series to binge watch during lockdown

Here are the top 10 recently launched web series that you can binge-watch during this lockdown

Lockdown impact: Online gaming sees over 100% spike in traffic, OTT at 198%

Also, OTT traffic surged 198.68 per cent, hosting traffic (storage space and access for websites) went up by 62.78 per cent, ISP traffic increased by 54.38 per cent

Unorthodox is a power portrayal of a Jewish woman's escape from oppression

German-American drama Unorthodox is a powerful portrayal of a woman's escape from a community defined by religion, writes Veer Arjun Singh

As coronavirus lockdown paves way for work from home, internet gets clogged

The average mobile phone data speed nowadays is down over 20 per cent. Fixed broadband has seen an eight per cent decline in speed.

Clean, cook, binge, repeat...

If everybody is "working" from home then how has TV consumption gone up? Who is making all that gourmet food being posted on social media?

Punyakoti: Old tale turned into 1st full length animation film in Sanskrit

Seven years ago, Ravishankar Venkateswaran heard a story from a colleague during a bus ride near Bengaluru. Obsessed with it, he released the film online on March 25, 2020 in US and Canada