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Worked in ‘Aligarh’ without fear: Manoj Bajpayee
Chennai: Actor Manoj Bajpayee says he didn’t hesitate to play a homosexual professor in National Award winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta’s critically acclaimed film “Aligarh”, which is based on a true story.
“As a person, I’m very fearless. Nothing really scares me apart from travelling in a plane. When it comes to experimenting with films or roles, I’ve never worried whether it will be liked by audiences or critics. The same goes for ‘Aligarh’ as well,” Manoj told.
In the film, the “Gangs of Wasseypur” star plays a character inspired from Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, who taught at the Aligarh Muslim University and was sacked from his position on charges of homosexuality.
“Once I was convinced about the script and vision of the director, I didn’t even think about anything else. I worked fearlessly. I do films for myself and if somebody gets entertained and moved in the process, it’s good for me,” he said.
Manoj plays a 64-year-old in the film. He admits playing an older character wasn’t as challenging as getting into its skin.
“Most actors are used to playing older roles. I don’t consider it unique for this character or for any roles I’ve played in my career. The challenging part was to get the mannerism of this character right, and to convey the loneliness,” Manoj said.
He added that it wasn’t easy to adapt to the character’s surroundings as it was quite different from the all the roles that he has played and observed in his career.
Even though the story of “Aligarh” is about invading an individual’s privacy, people may still be offended by its homosexuality angle.
Manoj doesn’t have any qualms about it. He’s confident that the film will be received positively.
“People have viewed it very positively worldwide and nobody cared about the sexual orientation part. Our focus was to make a film that will move the audience and we’re confident it will when it releases in India,” he added.
On working with Mehta, with whom he had worked many years ago in “Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar”, Manoj said he was amazed by the expertise the former has acquired over the years.
“I was moved when I watched ‘Shahid’. I wondered how much had Hansal changed as a filmmaker since his first film. The expertise he has acquired over the years was visible in his work and that convinced me to reunite with him,” he said.
“Aligarh”, which also stars Rajkummar Rao, is the opening film of 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival.
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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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