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Shahid, Malaika strike close friendship
Mumbai: Actors Malaika Arora Khan and Shahid Kapoor, who are currently seen as judges on dance reality show “Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa Reloaded”, not just share a good bond, but also snacks in between shots!
Earlier during the shooting of the show’s Filmy Masala episode, where the contestants had to incorporate a genre based act into their performances, Shahid and Malaika were seen munching on a few snacks in between breaks together.
Shahid brought an entire box of snacks, which the two judges were found sharing with each other.
“Over the few weeks since Malaika has joined ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’, the two judges have become very close during shoots. They have shared munchies with each other on numerous occasions and both of them always get healthy snacks especially for the show,” said a source from the show.
Malaika replaced filmmaker Karan Johar as a judge on the Colors show.
Apart from Shahid and Malaika, the show also features Ganesh Hegde and Lauren Gottlieb as judges.
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Jaya Bhattacharya gets home cooked food for her co-stars
Actress Jaya Bhattacharya, who is currently seen as Vasundhara in soap opera “Thapki Pyaar Ki”, considers her co-stars in the show as her family members and often gets home cooked food for them.
While she can be seen as the head of the family on screen, Jaya is also coincidently considered head of the off screen family. In fact, the crew calls her room the “family room” on the set as everyone congregates there when not shooting.
She has a very strong bond with all the cast of the show and is usually seen giving acting and health tips to the younger lot of the actors like Jigyasa Singh (Thapki), Ankit Bathla (Dhruv) and Manish Goplani (Bihaan).
“We all bond really well on the set. All these young bachchas (children) call me ‘Maa’. So like a mother, I share and teach them whatever I can. And during lunch time, all of them come to my room and we have food. Most of them stay away from their family so I get home cooked food for them,” Jaya said in a statement.
The story of “Thapki Pyar Ki”, which airs on Colors, revolves around a girl who stammers. However, she doesn’t let this destroy her cheerful and obedient character.
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Shaan helping ‘The Voice India’ winner to shift to Mumbai
Uttarakhand-based Pawandeep Rajan, who won the singing reality show “The Voice India” under the guidance of coach Shaan, is being helped by the Bollywood singer to relocate to Mumbai from his native place, to learn singing from him and start a career in Bollywood.
“Pawandeep has proved what a great singer he is and he deserves to be right here. I have always believed in helping real and deserving talent so I am going to do every bit I can to see him settled here,” Shaan, who was seen as a coach on the &TV show along with Himesh Reshammiya, Sunidhi Chauhan and Mika Singh, said in a statement.
On his part, Pawandeep still cannot believe that he won the show.
“The next most important step for me was to move here, which would have been so difficult. But Shaan is proving to be really godsend for me. I can’t thank him enough for being so supportive,” he said.
“The Voice India” was an Indian version of the internationally acclaimed reality format “The Voice”.
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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