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Monday, October 13, 2025
TopicDisney Hotstar

Topic: Disney Hotstar

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 announces series ‘Sultan of Delhi’ with Milan Luthria as director

The show stars Tahir Raj Bhasin, Anjum Sharma, Vinay Pathak, Nishant Dahiya, Anupriya Goenka, Mouni Roy, Harleen Sethi and Mehreen Pirzada.

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

No Mamata Banerjee, women’s safety isn’t a curfew issue

For Indian women, the smallest unit of control becomes the family; the largest, the State. Both speak the same language.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.