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Indian film industry noticed my work after ‘Lion’: Priyanka Bose
New Delhi, Oct 20 (IANS) Actress Priyanka Bose says “Lion” has paved the way for more diverse roles for her as well as helped the Indian film industry take note of her range as a performer.
The Garth Davis-directed “Lion”, which had bagged six nominations for the 89th Academy Awards and five nominations for the BAFTA awards, will premiere on Indian television on &Prive on Sunday.
Priyanka played the biological mother to the film’s central character Saroo,
Asked if “Lion” has given a push to her career, Priyanka told IANS: “Primarily because of the team that got together… Garth Davis has by far been my first big director. It was also his first feature film, but obviously he is going to go around doing bigger projects. So, to put myself on the map, yes, ‘Lion’ has done that and a lot of people from the film industry here have taken notice of my work, and the range of my work.
“It’s not something so bankable where the forces come together, the right team comes together or the producers come together and it’s a fair shot like where it’s going to go… You can’t expect that… There are a lot of independent actors like me who just want to keep working and do different things. So, ‘Lion’, yes, in that sense, commercially has done well for me and in terms of my actor’s range, it’s done well for me.
“Everything else that I did before it was probably practice to that. I guess with ‘Lion’, I am extremely proud of what it’s done.”
“Lion” features child actor Sunny Pawar, Deepti Naval and Tanishtha Chatterjee. The real life tale is based in India and Australia, and is a poignant tale of a five-year-old boy Saroo who loses his way from home far away in Kolkata, later to be adopted by an Australian family.
Around 25 years later, Saroo finds himself on a quest using Google Earth to find his way back home.
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Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings
Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.
Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).
Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.
The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.
Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.
Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities
The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.
On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.
Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.
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The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.
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