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Telugu industry has given me a warm welcome: Jyotii Sethi
Chennai: Actress Jyotii Sethi is the latest actress to make a splash in Telugu filmdom with her recent debut “Where is Vidya Balan”. The Punjabi girl says she is extremely happy with the warm reception the industry has given her.
“I was sure that my film won’t go unnoticed. But I seriously never expected this kind of a response from the audience. The overwhelming feedback has been very satisfying and I feel the industry has given me a warm welcome,” Sethi told IANS.
Jyotii is the latest addition to the list of actresses from Punjab in Telugu filmdom such as Simran Kaur Mundi and Sruthi Sodhi.
“I never wanted to be an actress. After I finished my Master’s in English, I had decided to become a lecturer. Somebody told me that I look good and I should consider getting into films. I posted some pictures from a photo-shoot on my Facebook page, and the offers started pouring in,” she said.
Realising that her prospects would be limited if she stayed in Punjab, Jyotii shifted base to Mumbai.
“I’ve already worked in a Punjabi film, but it’s yet to release. Two years ago, I was called for an audition in the south. Things didn’t work the first time. Two years later, I was called again and this time I landed the opportunity to work in ‘Where is Vidya Balan’,” she said.
Her journey so far hasn’t been as smooth as she expected it to be.
“When I was preparing to get into the industry, I wasn’t aware of the struggle and various things that could affect someone’s career,” she said.
“Just when I was starting to think everything was going so smoothly, my first Punjabi film was shelved due to some financial problems. These initial hiccups bothered me, but I realised there was no going back,” she added.
Open to work in all film industries, Jyotii feels the southern cinema world is more competitive than Bollywood.
Asked about the roles she would like to pick going forward, she said: “It’s too early to think about the kind of roles I want to pick. Since this is the beginning of my career, I’ll concentrate on working as much as possible.
“Of course, I want to be a part of meaningful films. I think it’s not wise to aspire to become Kangana Ranaut or Priyanka Chopra so early in my career.”
Jyotii has already signed another Telugu project, details of which she chose not to reveal.
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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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