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We need to get up and get what we deserve: Kangana Ranaut
London: Her journey from a small town to reigning over the world of showbiz was no ‘fairytale’. Kangana Ranaut, who has earned the epithet of Bollywood’s “Queen”, feels that instead of hoping to be taken seriously Indian actresses need to get up and demand it.
The actress, who is known for speaking her mind with brazen honesty, is pessimistic about India becoming a safer place for women any time soon as she terms it a “little impractical” thought.
Kangana delved on the truths behind the glamorous life of Bollywood and the life of being a woman in India while talking to BBC News reporter Shabnam Mahmood at the Women in the World Summit in London on Friday, reports nytlive.nytimes.com.
When asked by Mahmood on how Indian actresses can assure that they are taken seriously, Kangana said: “As women we shouldn’t hope to get our due – we need to get up and get it ourselves.”
Kangana, who is touted as the highest paid actress in Bollywood, said that attaining safety for women in India is “not achievable”.
“I think that’s a little impractical to hope (for),” she said.
Kangana has utmost confidence in womankind but she notes that “the darkest and deepest corners of the human soul have always been feminine. They offer the only way to penetrate the darkness-not anger or aggressive masculine emotions”.
Coming from Himachal Pradesh and with no film background, Kangana has made a niche for herself in Bollywood and delivered pathbreaking films like “Fashion”, “Tanu Weds Manu” and “Tanu Weds Manu Returns”.
She also had to face some setbacks with flops like “Rajjo”, “Rascals”, “Game” and her latest “Katti Batti”.
Asked if it was easy to find success, she quipped: “I have struggled for the last 10 years.”
Talking of her initial days of struggle, the actress said: “It was no fairytale. I was nothing like I am today – I couldn’t speak a word of English. In England, people might be understanding of that, but in Mumbai if you don’t speak English, people would ask ‘How does she expect to work in Hindi films?’
“Today I am who I am because my understanding of myself never changed.”
Having grown up in a small town, Kangana stressed that as a girl she was at odds with Indian culture.
“Perhaps the only expectation is that you grow up as a presentable young woman and get a decent spouse. I was a pain, not the kind of child an Indian parent would like to have,” Kangana said.
She decided to run away on a “quest to understand her own self, to be allowed to be more than people thought she was.”
International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.
Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.
The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.
Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.
The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.
“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.
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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