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My next few announcements will surprise everybody: Tamannaah
Chennai : It has been a phenomenal year so far for actress Tamannaah Bhatia with three back-to-back hits. Thrilled with the response to all her projects, she said the films she has in her kitty will surprise everybody.
“Unfortunately, I can’t talk about my upcoming projects yet but I’m sure when announced they will pleasantly surprise everybody. A lot of people, including my fans, will be really happy to know I’m going to be part of these films,” Tamannaah told IANS.
Out of the three films she did this year, she stunned everybody with her performance in “Dharmadurai” and “Devi”. Her other release “Thozha” was a successful venture.
Asked how she savored the success, she said: “I’ve been part of the biggest hits and flops. Over the years, I have realised that it takes a great team for a film to succeed. Although this success does add pressure, it will only push me to choose better content.”
Tamannaah admits it was a conscious decision to do a film like “Dharmadurai” where she wasn’t required to look glamorous or romance the hero.
“It was a very conscious decision and it worked. We did ‘Dharmadurai’ on a very small budget and it was different but I wasn’t sure if it will be accepted or not. Thankfully, it was very well received and my performance even earned me an award recently,” she said, and added her personality enables her to easily slip into both glamorous as well as author-backed roles.
“I’m fortunate enough to pull off glamorous as well as strong, character-driven roles. This is exactly why audiences accepted me in ‘Dharmadurai’ as well as ‘Devi’,” she said.
In “Devi”, Tamannaah played her career’s first leading role. She says its success has been overwhelming.
Does the success of “Devi” prove audiences are finally open to women-centric films?
“No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it’s good or not. Unlike regular commercial films, most of these women-centric films are made on smaller budget and when they succeed, the profits are bigger,” she said.
She also firmly believes both kinds of films – commercial, hero-driven and women-centric – will survive and can co-exist.
She is currently shooting for Simbu-starrer Tamil film “Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan”.
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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