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Daisy Shah caught kissing stranger very awkwardly
New Delhi: Sexy Bollywood actress Daisy Shah played a bold role in the 2015 erotic thriller “Hate Story 3”. But she will never get into that genre again as she finds kissing a stranger very awkward.
Asked what kind of characters she will never play on screen, she told media person in an email interaction: “I don’t really have such kind of things in my mind. There are certain things that I am not comfortable doing on screen which is what I did in ‘Hate Story 3’. I don’t want to get into that genre again; I just did it to break the mould.”
“I find kissing a stranger very awkward. The main criteria for me while selecting a project is the script. It has to be demanding and should challenge me as an actor. I don’t mind doing a kissing scene as long as it’s not just to pull the audience.”
The former background dancer has come a long way. After doing a few films in Kannada language, she made her Bollywood acting debut in 2014 with superstar Salman Khan’s “Jai Ho”.
Is she happy with the kind of roles offered to her now?
“I am being very cautious when it comes to signing films. The main reason why I am not doing so many films is because I want to do different kinds of films. I crave to do different characters and I don’t want to get typecast.”
“After ‘Jai Ho’, I was offered similar kinds of roles which I didn’t want to take up and thankfully ‘Hate Story 3’ broke the mould for me. After that people started looking at me as a girl who could also pull off other characters,” said the actress, whose next will be Govind Sakariya-helmed “Ramratan” — a romance with a pinch of comedy and thrill.
Looking back at her journey in showbiz, she said it has been quite an experience.
“I would say it has been a nice learning experience. I never wanted to be an actress, I just went with the flow and it worked out. In fact, I never wanted to be a dancer or an assistant choreographer,” she said.
“I never thought I wanted to be part of this industry. This particular field started as a means to earn extra pocket money and then turned into a profession.”
Before her first film, she had done a few modelling shoots and ad films.
“My first film was not in Bollywood, I have done a few south films before that because I was an assistant choreographer to Ganesh Acharya. At that time, he was shooting with Salman Khan for songs for a film.
“The first song… I couldn’t be part of as I was shooting for my south film, but then I had a break for almost three months and I called Ganesh Acharya. I told him ‘I am free for the next three months’. I am a workaholic so, I cannot sit at home doing nothing for more than two days.
“During that time, Ganesh was choreographing for ‘Dabangg’ and I happened to meet Salman. He spoke to me and asked where I was from and what I was doing. I said that I started acting in south and something must have clicked. It worked out.”
And now, she is on a tour with Salman and others in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Auckland in New Zealand, and Sydney and Melbourne in Australia.
“This is the first time I am doing a tour as a leading lady,” said the excited actress.
What about starting a dance academy of her own?
“There is no plan to start a dance academy as of now. First of all, I need to make a mark in the field that I am in right now. Maybe, I can think about a dance academy later,” she said.
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.
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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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