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‘Guddu Ki Gun’ – Kunal Kemmu strikes gold
By Troy Ribeiro
Film: “Guddu Ki Gun”; Cast: Kunal Kemmu, Sumeet Vyas, Payel Sarkar and Aparna Sharma; Directors: Shantanu Ray Chibber and Sheershak Anand; Rating: ***
“Guddu Ki Gun” is the tale of Govardhan aka Guddu (Kunal Kemmu), a Bihari settled in Kolkata. He is a door-to-door washing powder salesman, whose sales pitch is “Ek washing powder ke saath Guddu free”.
With dialogues packed with rhymes, mispronunciations and double entendres, the film is a delightful adult comedy that keeps you in splits by the minute. The characteristic one-liners are crisp, tempered and never sound crass. If not funny, it at least elicits a chuckle.
The script written by the director duo, takes the fantasy route to deliver fables and life’s lessons meaningfully.
While sharing a room with his close friend Ladoo (Sumeet Vyas), Guddu leads an amorous lifestyle in Kolkata.
His travails begins when he ditches one of his girlfriends, Bholi (Aparna Sharma). Furious for forsaking his granddaughter, Bholi’s grandfather casts a black magic spell on him.
The only way Guddu can get rid of the curse is to find true love and by staying faithful to her. This is his journey, a rather painful one for him, but hilarious for the audience.
The plot is skilfully crafted. Every character is quirky and well-etched. And every actor delivers a notable performance, albeit a bit over the top.
With an author-backed role, this film is Kunal Kemmu’s canvas, and he delivers gloriously. A natural actor, he effortless slips into Guddu’s shoes, fluently speaking Hindi in the Bihari lingo.
You laugh at him and with him, when he clowns around. You do not feel sorry for him when he is cursed. In fact, you patiently wait to see, if he is actually going to change as a person. And he wins your heart.
Sumeet Vyas ably holds his stead opposite Kunal. They share an excellent chemistry and their bonhomie is palpable on screen.
The leading ladies have a fairly miniscule roles. Aparna Sharma as Bholi and Payel Sarkar as Kaali are eye candies and they deliver, fairly.
But it is the other supporting artistes like the South Indian nurse Sarita, Dr. Jhatuldas Gupta, the journalist Akhilesh Tripati, his editor Kajal K.Das, the mercenary Don Marwari, the antique dealer Antique Moshai and the Turkish businessman along with their wives, who make an interesting set of characters.
With moderate production values, the film is shot on actual locales giving the film a realistic feel.
Keiko Nakahara’s guerrilla cinematography captures the pulse of Kolkata beautifully. Amar Mohile’s reverberating music and background score is seamlessly layered with the visuals by editor Cheragh Todiwala, thereby enhancing the viewing experience.
Overall, “Guddu Ki Gun” is a worthwhile watch to unwind.
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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