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TopicDisney Hotstar

Topic: Disney Hotstar

Other victories of Indian women cricketers this world cup—fans, viewership & ‘sold out’ stadia

TV & digital viewership for 2025 Women’s ODI World Cup was all-time high for women ICC events. Stadiums also witnessed record turnouts, with the India vs SA final being ‘sold out’.

Disney nears $10 billion deal to sell India operations to rival Reliance, reports Bloomberg News

Reliance values Disney's India assets, which comprises the Disney+ Hotstar streaming service and Star India, at between $7 billion and $8 billion, the report said.

Disney+ Hotstar offers free streaming of cricket tournaments for mobile users

The decision to lift the paywall comes after Hotstar lost the streaming rights for IPL cricket tournament to Reliance Industries’ Jio Cinema earlier this year.

Saas, Bahu Aur Flamingo is not your average crime drama – it’s family politics on steroids

The raw and unapologetic action sequences with women thrashing men make for some of the web series’ defining scenes.

Sharmila Tagore makes powerful comeback in Gulmohar—riveting family drama on Disney+ Hotstar

The writers do not desperately weave a happy ending by speeding up the climax, rather allowing the Batra family to find beauty within the cracks.

The Night Manager review: Indian adaptation of le Carré is held up by Anil Kapoor, Aditya Roy

Creator Sandeep Modi of Aarya fame utilises his strengths to The Night Manager's advantage — the eclectic cast and the screenplay.

‘Cuttputlli’ is among the worst of Akshay Kumar’s career, which takes some doing

Cuttputlli, loosely based on Soviet serial killer Anatoly Slivko, is a lesson in what not to do with a crime drama.

Quirky, delightful—Janhvi Kapoor’s Good Luck Jerry is a power-packed remake with few misses

From Deepak Dobriyal to Sushant Singh, industry veterans with on-point comic timing help Good Luck Jerry stand on its feet.

Hotstar’s Shoorveer has the best aerial dogfight scenes on Indian TV. Rest is half-baked

Samar Khan's Shoorveer could have been 'the' Air Force show. It lands the aerial dogfight scenes perfectly, but the rest is a parachute-less jump.

‘Asia a great proxy for other markets’ — Netflix on fixing its subscription crisis

Streaming platform to curb spending, while maintaining investments in Asian market, producing local films and creating partnerships with wireless operators to reach potential customers.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.