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Akshay keeps Charlie Chaplin’s photograph in his wallet (TV Snippets)
Mumbai, Sep 12 (IANS) Actor Akshay Kumar, who will be seen as Super Judge in the upcoming fifth season of comedy show “The Great Indian Laughter Challenge”, says late legendary actor Charlie Chaplin was the greatest entertainer of all times and he carries his photograph in his wallet.
“Charlie Chaplin is still undoubtedly the greatest entertainer of all times. Till today, I have his photograph in my wallet. I personally believe in his saying, ‘Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot’,” Akshay said while shooting for the first episode of the show.
Besides Akshay, the show will also feature Mallika Dua, Zakir Khan and Hussain Dalal as mentors.
“The Great Indian Laughter Challenge” will soon be aired on Star Plus.
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Bhumika’s tribute to her father
Actress Bhumika Gurung has paid a tribute to her father by getting inked for the first time. She says her father is her first love.
Bhumika, who plays the role of Nimki in TV show “Nimki Mukhiya”, adores actress Priyanka Chopra’s “Daddy’s little girl” tattoo and therefore got herself inked for the first time.
On her wrist, Bhumika has got “Dad” written with a red coloured heart around it.
“My dad is my first love. I may find my prince someday, but my dad will always be my King. He gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in me,” Bhumika said in a statement.
“This tattoo is just a way for me to let him know and to feel for myself that he’s always with me. Wherever I go whatever I do. His blessings are always with me,” she added.
“Nimki Mukhiya” is aired on Star Bharat.
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Priya Marathe, Savita Prabhune’s Marathi bond
Actors Priya Marathe and Savita Prabhune often talk to each other in Marathi while shooting for TV show “Ayushaman Bhava”.
“Savita ji and I bond really well on the set. We both are Maharashtrians, so we love our traditional food and a lot of times we speak in Marathi thinking it’s our code language and nobody will understand what we are saying. I think I am closest to her on the set,” Priya said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Savita said: “Priya and I have worked together earlier and hence we share a great rapport. We both bond in Marathi language on the set. She is a hardworking girl. There is a special connection with her and she is like a daughter to me.”
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Reena Aggarwal learning French for ‘Kya Haal Mr. Paanchal’
Actress Reena Aggarwal, who is seen essaying the role of Prema in newly launched show “Kya Haal Mr. Paanchal” is learning French for her role and she says she was excited to learn the language.
“When makers informed me about learning French, I was quite excited. A tutor comes to the sets every day to guide me. The training is helping me immensely with my dialogues delivery. I am enjoying the experience and I feel lucky to be a part of the show,” Reena said in a statement.
Reena is learning French from a tutor as most of her dialogues in the Star Bharat’s show are in French. Every day, a French tutor comes to the sets to teach her and help her with the lines and guide her.
“Kya Haal Mr. Paanchal” is a laugh riot where a Saas is in search of a perfect bahu with five different qualities for her son. The show highlights the fact that greed for perfect qualities and faultlessness is bad and one should not have unrealistic expectations from their daughters-in-law.
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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.
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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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