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Want to be more than just a pretty face: Surabhi
Chennai: Actress Surabhi will shed her pretty and girl-next-door image when filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma’s Telugu actioner “Attack” releases. She will be seen upping the glamour quotient in her role as a mechanic.
“The innocent image I’ve portrayed so far in my roles will be intact. But at the same time I’m playing the role of a mechanic. The character has some rowdiness in it and I’ll mostly be seen sporting a denim outfit and repairing cars in the film,” Surabhi told.
“It’s a character so different from the ones people have seen me in. I’ve always believed there are two sides to all of us and what audiences will get to see from me will be my other side, which has never been explored before,” she said.
Surabhi landed the opportunity to work with Varma after he was impressed by her performance in her Telugu debut “Beeruva”.
The young actress disagrees that Varma exploits his heroines in glamorous roles.
“I think he makes his heroines look sensual as well as beautiful. He loves women and looks at them like a painting. I shot with him for three days and we did a photo shoot. Everybody has been talking about it,” she said.
“I’m so happy with the photographs because it showcases me in a way I’ve been yearning to see myself on screen. Since this is an action film, there won’t be any exposing except for the songs,” said Surabhi, who will soon shoot a glamorous number.
The song, according to Surabhi, will be shot “beautifully”.
She says Varma knows exactly how to portray his heroines on screen.
“We all know ‘Rangeela’ made Urmila (Matondkar) an overnight sensation. Ramu sir knows what will suit his heroines and he knows how to capture them on screen. When I shot with him, he never tried to make me look beautiful. He captured my natural looks in a beautiful way,” she added.
Post “Attack”, Surabhi says she’ll be ready for glamorous roles as well.
“I don’t want be typecast in pretty and homely roles. People shouldn’t think I can’t do other kinds of roles. I was looking forward for a makeover like this. I think it has come at the right time in my career,” she said.
Working with the ace filmmaker has been “wonderful” for her.
“I’ve been his fan since childhood. The first film I watched in theatre was ‘Rangeelaa’. He’s very energetic and passionate. Shooting with him was different because he works with multiple cameras. Even the minutest detail is captured and you can’t afford to make mistakes,” she said.
Surabhi is also happy that she’s getting to work with popular actors like Jagapathi Babu and Manchu Manoj. The actress currently has Tamil film “Pugazh” readying for release.
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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.
“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.
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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