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‘Piku’ finds success in distant Poland
Warsaw: The worldwide success of Shoojit Sircar’s “Piku” now has Poland within its ambit. The film is a runaway success in this Polish capital since its May 20 joint released by Yashraj Films and Anuj Sharma’s Images & Worlds.
It will soon be screened in other major Polish cities like Krakow, Lodz, Lublin, Wroclaw and Poznan.
“Poland is not only a market for Bollywood masala movies, but Polish film buffs are keen on serious and clean movies such as ‘Piku’,” said Anuj Sharma, president of Images & Worlds company.
“‘Piku’ has opened a new chapter in Poland. We in Poland want to see creative films like this one. It is a wonderful and light-hearted comedy and allows us to keep pace with the latest trends in Bollywood productions,” Janusz Krzyzowski, president of the India-Poland Cultural Committee, told.
Krzyzowski is one person in Warsaw who has seen more than 200 Bollywood films. He has also translated Bollywood songs into Polish along with an Urdu poet, Surender Zahid.
“The heroine, Deepika Padukone has impressed me tremendously. I feel very close to her as she has invoked a fatherly affection in me. I feel like adopting her and I am sure many serious people in the world must have felt for her in the same way. No wonder if people have started calling her Deepiku,” observed Boguslaw Zakrewski, an Indophile and a former Polish ambassador to Thailand, Portugal and Brazil.
“A simple human story with many nuances. Amitabh Bachchan is simply superb and he is much better as an actor these days in his offbeat movies compared to earlier action films. The man has the potential to be compared with any world class actor,” Mariusz Krasniewski, a lecturer at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, told IANS.
Yashraj Films had also earlier released Rani Mukherji’s bold film “Mardani”. Rani had especially come for its premiere in January this year. “Mardani” too was well-received by Polish fans.
The craze for Bollywood films began a decade ago when in November 2004, Karan Johar’s “Kabhi Khushi, Khabhi Gham” was shown with Polish subtitles. Shahrukh Khan became a household name in no time and his posters were sold in the thousands.
Since then, Bollywood films have become a routine subject of discussion for Polish people, particularly among the young crowd. For them, India is an exotic destination.
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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