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Stardust Awards: Big B, Deepika crowned Best Actors
Mumbai: Amitabh Bachchan and Deepika Padukone were today crowned as the Best Actors of the Year at the Sansui COLORS Stardust Awards for thier performnce in “Shamitabh” and “Piku” respectively.
The star-studded event, at the Reliance Jio Gardens here on Monday night, which saw superstar Salman Khan-starrer “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” win three awards – it was named the Best Film of the Year; won the Best Director of the Year for Kabir Khan; and Harshali Malhotra took home the Breakthrough Performance by a Child Artist honour.
The Filmmaker of the Year title was shared by two women — Meghna Gulzar for “Talvar” and Shonali Bose for “Margarita With A Straw”.
Shefali Shah and Anil Kapoor won the Best Actors in Supporting Roles Award for their performance as husband and wife in “Dil Dhadakne Do”; Randeep Hooda emerged as the winner in the Best Actor in Negative Role category for “Main Aur Charles”; Kartik Aaryan won the Best Actor in Comic Role title for “Pyaar Ka Punchnama 2”; the Best Debut – Female Award was deservingly received by Bhoomi Pednekar for “Dum Laga Ke Haisha”, and Sooraj Pancholi’s “Hero” act won him the Best Debut – Male Award.
Veteran actor Jeetendra was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award; actress Zeenat Aman was rewarded with Timeless Diva award; and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who made her comeback in showbiz with “Jazbaa” was awarded with the Power-packed Performer of the Year.
Actress Parineeti Chopra, who has slimmed down a lot, was named the Style Icon Of The Year, while the young and talented Varun Dhawan was appreciated with the Sansui Entertainer of the Year Award.
The Best Costume Design award went to Niharika Khan for her period-inspired work in “Bombay Velvet”.
As for the Best Screenplay category, Varun Grover walked away with the honour for “Masaan”; while Sriram Raghavan and Arijit Biswas were feted with the Best Story trophy for “Badlapur”.
In terms of the song categories, the Best Lyricist was once given to Varun Grover for “Masaan” again. The Best Playback Singer – Female went to Palak Muchhal for “Prem ratan dhan payo”, and among the men, Armaan Malik got it for the track “Hero”. The Best Music Director Award was given to the versatile Amit Trivedi for “Shaandaar”, and the Best Music Album went to “Roy”.
The Best Choreographer Award was given to Remo D’Souza for his dance-based film “ABCD 2”.
The red carpet of the gala witnessed the presence Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Sonam Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Jacqueline Fernandez, Shahid Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, Richa Chaddha and Nimrat Kaur. Even power couple Nita and Mukesh Ambani came together to applaud the cinematic achievements of Bollywood in 2015.
Shah Rukh, Kajol, Alia, Shahid and Ranveer staged stupendous performances, and the entertainment quotient was taken to another level by Riteish Deshmukh and Farah Khan. Other hosts who kept the audiences in splits included Nimrat Kaur, Manish Paul and Krushna Abhishek.
The event will be televised on January 10 next year on COLORS!
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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