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‘Darling 2’ taught me a lot about commercial cinema: Director
Chennai: Debutant director Sathish Chandrasekaran says the forthcoming second instalment in the Tamil horror-thriller “Darling” franchise, which releases in cinemas on Friday, taught him a lot about the nitty-gritty of commercial cinema.
“I worked on short films before I got an opportunity to make ‘Darling 2’, and I learnt a lot about commercial cinema from this experience. When you make short films, you can make it the way you want, and there’s some innocence in the way you make them,” Sathish told IANS, adding that all of it changes when one starts working on a feature film.
“When it comes to regular feature films, there are so many factors, like budget, casting, marketing and scheduling of shoot, and one needs to take all that into consideration. It’s also easy to make a feature film, but the challenge is to release it,” he said.
“Darling 2”, which stars Kalaiarasan, Rameez, Arjun, Hari and Maya, is not a sequel to “Darling”.
“It was producer Gnanavel Raja who suggested we rechristen it to ‘Darling 2’ as the core plot is similar to ‘Darling’. Since our film was also about a group of friends who embark on a journey and deal with paranormal forces, he felt it would be wise to include it in the ‘Darling’ franchise,” Sathish said, and added that to continue a franchise a film need not be a sequel.
“Darling 2” is being released by Gnanavel Raja’s Studio Green, and Sathish says the film is scarier than its predecessor.
“Our film is scarier, and it has humour too, woven into the plot seamlessly. The humour will be more situational. For instance, in the film, when two characters are having a serious argument, the way the scene unfolds will evoke laughter,” he said.
The film is inspired from events from Sathish’s own life.
“It’s based on some spooky experiences from two trips I had gone on with my friends. Hari of ‘Madras’ fame plays my role in the film, and he was phenomenal, especially acting with a stammer and doing full justice to the role,” he added.
“Darling 2” is a crowd-funded film, before it was bought by Studio Green.
With the financial support of his family and friends, Sathish managed to shoot the film.
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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