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Can’t see myself just looking pretty and dancing: Radhika Apte
Mumbai: Actress Radhika Apte is content after two back-to-back different entertainers — Sriram Raghavan’s “Badlapur” and Harshvardhan Kulkarni’s “Hunterrr”. Happy with the praise coming her way, she says she will continue trying to pick unique characters.
Talking about her performances, she said: “I guess what really worked for me was that the two films and my characters in them were so different from one another. It was just lucky that the two films came out together.
“We shot ‘Hunterrr’ over a long period of time. We did a major part of the shooting and then stopped. We picked up the threads again after two years, completed the film and quickly released it. Fortunately, the time lapse doesn’t show in the film.”
For an actress who has worked in films in seven languages even before turning 30, Radhika has a hunger to excel in unexpected roles.
“I cannot see myself just looking pretty and dancing. I am sure that requires a helluva lot of discipline and hard work. But I’d rather channelise my energy to do something different, like I did in ‘Badlapur’ and ‘Hunterrr’.”
In “Hunterrr”, Radhika played a character with a past.
“We are living during times when women are not expected to be ‘sati savitris’. My character in ‘Hunterrr’ had a relationship and an abortion. This is a relatable person. I don’t know any friend of mine who hasn’t had sex before marriage.”
And now the quest for real characters continues.
“I don’t care what the language of the cinema is, as long as it has a connect with real life. I am doing Leena Yadav’s ‘Parched’ where I am pitched against some really brilliant actresses in a story that’s set in Rajasthan. And I am doing ‘The Field’ about the Delhi mafia where my co-star is Neeraj Kabi (the monk in ‘Ship Of Theseus’).
“Then there is the biopic on Dashrath Manjhi with Nawazuddin Siddiqui which Ketan Mehta has directed. I got to play a Bihari rustic woman for the first time. I am also doing a couple of short films, one directed by Pia Sukanya called ‘Bombairiya’, and another one co-starring Soumita Chatterjee directed by Sujoy Ghosh.
“Then there is a short film by Anurag Kashyap on forbidden love.”
Radhika who is married to a British musician, is very clear in her views on nudity in cinema.
“I have done a nude scene for an English-language film. In fact, I wrote an article about how strongly I felt on the subject of nudity. At the same time, I wouldn’t allow my personal space to be violated by any intrusive attention.
“Sometime ago, someone had posted a nude selfie on the internet claiming it was me. The girl didn’t even look like me. And the controversy died a natural death.”
Sighs Radhika: “I am here because I am passionate about acting. Just after I was noticed in Raj Nidimoru-Krishna DK’s ‘Shor In The City’, I left for London to study contemporary dancing. I came back feeling more empowered.
“I grew up idolising Aamir Khan. I had a poster of his in my room. Every day I said ‘bye’ to it before going to school. I want to create a similar sense of self-worth in my career,” 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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Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile
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“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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