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‘Nil Battey Sannata’: Light hearted yet hard hitting
Film: “Nil Battey Sannata”; Cast: Swara Bhaskar, Riya Shukla, Aditi Tailang, Ratna Pathak Shah, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjay Suri; Director: Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari; Rating: ***1/2
Replete with life’s lessons, “Nil Battey Sannata” is a powerfully packed, emotional tale of dreams and ambition, which is beautifully captured through a mother-daughter relationship.
Chanda Sahai (Swara Bhaskar), a maid, is an ambitious mother. She works hard to ensure that her daughter Apeksha, which means expectation and fondly called Appu, receives a good education.
One day she asks her daughter “What will you become?”
Nonchalantly, her daughter replies: “An engineer’s son becomes an engineer, a doctor’s son becomes a doctor. So obviously, a maid’s daughter will become a maid.”
Disheartened, Chanda is not a mother who sings, “Que Sera Seraa”, to convey the fatalistic resignation. In fact, she pulls strings to make her daughter realise that the future is in one’s own hands and one can steer the course as per one’s will. How she deals with her carefree, yet equally complexed daughter, forms the crux of the tale.
This is director Ashwiny Tiwari’s maiden venture. Her script and screenplay co-written by Pranjal Choudhary, Neeraj Singh and Nitesh Tiwari is taut and engaging with realistic metaphors like, “fuse bulb”, for weak students and “Khana dheere pake to, swaad ayegaa, jaldi pake to jal jayega”, in reference to, slow and steady wins the race.
The dialogues written in light vein are entertaining, which make the situations instantly relevant and enjoyable, inclusive of some maths lessons, “Sawaal ka jawaab sawaal mein hi chupa hai,” which is used as a leitmotif to emphasise that the answer lies in the question itself, or in other words one has to introspect to find answers in life.
With her woe-ridden demeanour, Swara Bhaskar plays Chanda to perfection. A fine actor, she nails her role as a compassionate mother to the tee. She is ably supported by Riya Shukla who plays Apeksha with equal fervour. Riya is convincing as the free-spirited, rebellious child adamant to have her way and is equally effective when distraught on learning about her mother’s sacrifices.
They are efficiently supported by other teen actors who play their classmates, Pintu, Sweety and Anmol. They are simply themselves and natural onscreen.
Ratna Pathak Shah though a brilliant actor, as Dr. Dewan is unconvincing. By no stretch of imagination are her mannerisms of a scatter-brained person, she intends to portray.
Pankaj Tripathi as Mr. Shrivastava, the Maths teacher and the Principal of the school is brilliant. With a tinge of comic undercurrent in his gestures and speech, he essays his role flawlessly.
Sanjay Suri in a guest appearance as the kind-hearted collector Satyaprakash, is sweet but wasted.
With moderate production values, cinematographer Gavemic U. Ary’s shots in a tight indoor space are as brilliant, as his outdoor frames.
The background score by Naren Chandravarkar and Benedict Taylor is effectively layered along with the song, “One plus one, Maths mein dabba gul”.
“Nil Battey Sannata” is a sentimental, inspirational film that is provocative and will appeal to everyon
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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