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<keyword id="6533" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="anupam-kher" source="Orion">Anupam Kher</keyword> is officially a part of filmmaker <keyword id="30014" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="vivek-agnihotri" source="Orion">Vivek Agnihotri</keyword>'s next directorial "The Vaccine War" and has commenced shooting for the film, the veteran actor announced on Monday. The film marks the fourth collaboration between <keyword id="2057" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="agnihotri" source="Orion">Agnihotri</keyword> and <keyword id="950" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="kher" source="Orion">Kher</keyword> after movies such as "Buddha in a Traffic Jam", "The Tashkent Files" and "The Kashmir Files". Kher took to Twitter to share the news and posted a photo from the sets of the upcoming movie. "Announcing my 534th film! #TheVaccineWar directed by @vivekagnihotri. Fascinating and Inspirational! Jai Hind!" the 67-year-old actor posted. Agnihotri, who attained commercial success with last year's film "The Kashmir Files", had announced "The Vaccine War" in November 2022 and also unveiled the official poster of the film. The movie is scheduled to be released on August 15, 2023, in 11 languages: Hindi, English, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Urdu and Assamese. The feature project will be produced by Agnihotri's actor-wife Pallavi Joshi's I Am Buddha Productions and Abhishek Agarwal via his banner Abhishek Agarwal Arts. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/personalities/pel-vivienne-westwood-cyrus-mistry-pope-benedict-xvi-and-more-luminaries-who-passed-away-in-2022/slidelist/96678840.cms">Pelé, Vivienne Westwood, Cyrus Mistry, Pope Benedict XVI and more: Luminaries who passed away in 2022</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/naga-peace-accord-a-tale-of-so-near-yet-so-far/articleshow/96678962.cms">Naga peace accord: A tale of so near, yet so far</a>

Anupam Kher starts shooting for Vivek Agnihotri's 'The Vaccine War'

This year, as in years past, there will be a lot of fanfare and celebration surrounding the festival of lights. While the <keyword id="188" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Diwali" source="Orion">Diwali</keyword> festival definitely merits a big celebration, it's equally crucial to do it with the utmost <keyword id="46574" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="safety" source="Orion">safety</keyword>. The number of eye damage cases that occur during the Diwali celebration is significantly higher than average due to the use of firecrackers. Elder family members should therefore keep an eye on the kids while they participate in the Diwali festivities. A majority of firework-related eye injuries can leave a person permanently blind because of persistent visual loss. Continuous smoke from cracker explosions might irritate the eyes or make them water. Avoid bottle rockets, which are regarded as the riskiest cracker variety, keep a safe distance from burning crackers, wear safety goggles, and refrain from wearing contact lenses while breaking crackers. When an <keyword id="45567" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="eye-injury" source="Orion">eye injury</keyword> occurs, do not touch it; if a piece of debris is lodged in the eye, do not remove it; instead, keep your eyes closed and visit an eye doctor; if a chemical enters the eyes, immediately irrigate them for 30 minutes, and then seek immediate medical attention. <cmsannotation type="cmsannotation" annotationid="Do's &amp; Don'ts while bursting crackers" comment="subhead" text="Do's &amp; Don'ts while bursting crackers">Do's &amp; Don'ts while bursting crackers</cmsannotation> Do's: Ensure to buy <keyword id="54214" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="fireworks" source="Orion">Fireworks</keyword> from a licensed dealer Keep a bucket of sand or a fire extinguisher handy. Ensure there are no inflammable and combustible materials around the fire-cracking area. Follow all safety precautions issued with the fireworks. Discard used fireworks in a bucket of water Ensure to burst crackers in safe areas that are not crowded Dont's: Don't let children play alone with firecrackers Don't wear synthetic clothes or loose garments; thick cotton clothes are ideal Don't apply cream or oil to the affected area, in case of an eye injury, consult an ophthalmologist immediately Don't light crackers while holding them in your hand; they should always be lighted in open grounds pointing straight up. Don't keep the firecrackers near burning diyas or agarbhattis Each person must take care and caution when celebrating the holiday because injuries from fireworks can also happen to innocent onlookers. Let's promote happiness and joy this Diwali while putting the safety of your loved ones first. (Dr. <keyword id="6158" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="pallavi-joshi" source="Orion">Pallavi Joshi</keyword>, Consultant-Cornea, Ocular Surface and Refractive Surgery) SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/delhi-hc-junks-plea-challenging-blanket-ban-on-firecrackers/articleshow/94983590.cms">Delhi HC junks plea challenging blanket ban on firecrackers</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/india/news/spend-your-money-on-sweets-says-sc-as-it-turns-down-plea-against-firecracker-ban/articleshow/94987642.cms">Spend your money on sweets says SC as it turns down plea against firecracker ban</a>

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<ul><li>India will celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8. </li><li>From Devi, to Juice, here are 5 releases based on the struggles of women in India. </li><li>Visit Business Insider for more stories. </li></ul>As we approach International Women’s Day, Business Insider has curated a list of five short films that have narrated the many troubles of the fairer sex, with a layered and complicated narrative Devi 
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 Stars: Kajol, Neha Dhupia, <keyword id="20440" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Shruti-Hassan">Shruti Hassan</keyword> Women across walks of life, from different social and economic backgrounds, age and attitudes live together, and have a terrible secret to share. <a href="https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/devi-review-kajol-leads-a-diverse-ensemble-in-a-short-film-that-skillfully-makes-room-for-endless-empathy-8111901.html">As they discuss their trauma, they realize that it connects them all</a>. Their stories of abuse are similar than they appear, and the stories are told without too much gore, detail or tears making it a thoughtful watch with a spectacular ending. Juice 
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 Stars: Shefali Shah On a hot Sunday,<a href="https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/devi-review-kajol-leads-a-diverse-ensemble-in-a-short-film-that-skillfully-makes-room-for-endless-empathy-8111901.html"> a bunch of women hustle and bustle in the kitchen to cook, c</a>lean for an all-male alcohol party. The woman of the house played by Shah who keep a steady stream of snacks rolling for her husband and the rest of the gang, who joke about their female boss - all the while expecting her to ensure that children stay off their party turf. What Shah does in the end would define the simple yet strong act of defiance. Pressure Cooker 
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 Stars: <keyword id="6158" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Pallavi-Joshi">Pallavi Joshi</keyword> and Mukul Chadda Buying a pressure cooker may seem a tiny task but like most women in India Swati also struggles to buy one. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb23eZqZ_c0">The short film starring Pallavi Joshi</a> is a story of a housewife who wanted to change the cooker she uses and her husband refuses to buy her one. The Day after Everyday 
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 Stars: <keyword id="17610" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sandhya-Mridul">Sandhya Mridul</keyword>, <keyword id="133292" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Radhika-Apte">Radhika Apte</keyword>, <keyword id="37821" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Geetanjali-Thapa">Geetanjali Thapa</keyword> and Aranya Kaur. The Day after Everyday <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/anurag-kashyap-short-film-on-eve-teasing-that-day-after-everyday-216120-2013-10-31">is the story of the daily lives of three girls who live in the same locality and decides to fight back</a> against the odd behavior of men against women. Naked 
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 Stars: <keyword id="39062" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kalki-Koechlin">Kalki Koechlin</keyword> Naked directed by <a href="https://movies.ndtv.com/bollywood/in-naked-kalki-koechlin-stars-as-actress-whose-sex-scene-goes-viral-1667540">Anurag Kashyap is a grave reminder of how dark the world of Bollywood is for actresses.</a> Sandy, a popular film star, wakes up to the news of her sex-scene from her movies leaking all over the internet. For the next few days, she has to struggle with bad press about her controversial career.

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In the past few days many celebrities have raised their voice against the appointment of TV actor <keyword id="258297" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Gajendra-Chauhan">Gajendra Chauhan</keyword> as the <keyword id="2898983" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="FTII-chairman">FTII chairman</keyword>. Now film-maker <keyword id="30014" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Vivek-Agnihotri">Vivek Agnihotri</keyword>, whose political satire ‘Buddha In A Traffic Jam’ recently won the Best Original Screenplay in a foreign language award at the Madrid International Film Festival, has extended full support to FTII students. Pointing towards the qualification of Chauhan, he told Business Insider (BI) that “one can’t give a chance to a raw pilot to fly a Dreamliner and an intern to do a bypass surgery on a patient.” The controversy is very far from over; the students of the prestigious <keyword id="129188" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Film-and-Television-Institute-of-India">Film and Television Institute of India</keyword> (FTII) have been agitating for over 30 days and have declared that they would continue to protest against <keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> member Chauhan’s appointment as the new head of the governing council. 

	Agnihotri, who directed movies such as ‘Hate Story’, and ‘Chocolate’, ‘Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal’, told BI: “Chauhan is not qualified for this job. I don’t care what movies he has done or their quality. What matters is that he has no track record, views, and above all vision for cinema.”
 

	Chauhan, who played the role of 'Yudhishthir' in popular television serial "Mahabharata", on his part remained unfazed and said he should be given a chance and allowed to work.
 The film-maker, whose wife actor <keyword id="6158" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Pallavi-Joshi">Pallavi Joshi</keyword> has stepped down on July 6 from the <keyword id="2929545" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="FTII-Society">FTII Society</keyword> in an expression of solidarity with students, said: “Chauhan claims he has done over 70 serials. So what? Even a junior artist does over 1,000 films.” Chauhan is not suited for the job, he said. On being asked about the role of the <keyword id="384646" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Information-and-Broadcasting-Ministry">Information and Broadcasting Ministry</keyword> in the controversial appointment, Agnihotri said: “I think I&amp;B authorities underestimated the FTII. They thought it is just an institute with few hundred scholars somewhere in Pune. Who will bother? But it (the decision to appoint Chauhan) boomeranged on them.” 

	He further said the appointment has nothing to do with syllabus or any other administrative issues. “It is about prestige of the institute which, now, everyone unanimously believe will be hampered by Chauhan’s appointment.”
 

	Justifying the strike, he said FTII students are politically more active than engineering or MBA students. In Vivek Agnihotri’s view, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the government should not hesitate to change the chairman.
 

	One such change will set the precedence for other institutes and bring the government under pressure, he said, adding: “There will be chaos. It is a complex situation and I am sure sooner or later our pragmatic PM will intervene and find a solution.”
 Agnihotri has worked in advertising agencies including Ogilvy &amp; Mather, JWT and has been a founder member of <keyword id="2947231" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="McCann-Erickson-in-India">McCann Erickson in India</keyword>. 
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Film-maker Vivek Agnihotri says, you can’t give ‘anyone’ a chance to run FTII

<ul><li><keyword id="19912128" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="chandra" source="keywords">Chandra</keyword> hit upon the idea to launch a TV channel after he saw big hotels showing CNN via satellite dishes during the Gulf War.</li><li><keyword id="19976119" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="zee" source="keywords">Zee</keyword> was India’s first private TV channel and had pioneered many superhit TV shows, reality shows and kickstarted the careers of many media barons.</li><li>Chandra entered the infrastructure business and planned a hostile takeover of IVRCL which failed.</li><li>By the mid-2010s, his new ventures had piled up a huge debt which pushed him to sell stake in crown jewel, Zee.</li></ul>Remember Hum Paanch? <keyword id="20328693" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="zee-antakshari" source="keywords">Zee Antakshari</keyword>? Phillips Top 10? These shows, now shared around social media by nostalgia lovers, were the first taste of Hindi TV programmes for many millennials. The generation saw the country move away from one or two channels with very limited entertainment programming; with the entry of private companies into satellite programming, forcing Indians to buy TVs that needed remotes. The man who made this revolution possible was Subhash Chandra, a bright young man from Hisar. Born into an Agrawal Bania family, Chandra entered into business early in his life, and in the 70s before TV wasn’t around in India. After his family business fell into debt, he had to abruptly leave college, go back to Haryana and work on repaying debts. He started off running a pulse polishing mill with moderate success, but his fortunes improved as he supplied grains to Food Corporation of India (FCI). By late 80s and early 90s, he was exporting rice and soybeans to Russia, and had also started a packaging company. It was all running smoothly, until one election season he saw that politicians were renting out vans with projectors and screens for their roadshows. He later learnt that Five-Star Hotels owned satellite dishes and were telecasting CNN during the Gulf War. That’s when the idea of broadcasting content with ads in between came to him, he told Outlook Business in <a href="https://www.outlookbusiness.com/specials-34/secret-diary-of-an-entrepreneur_2018/live-in-the-present-dont-recount-and-regret-the-past-4353">Secret Diary of Subhash Chandra</a>. <div type="image" title="hum paanch twitter" msid="107136147" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Source: Twitter (Now X) &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> The realm of reality TV As he went about it, he was laughed off by DD executives, who coolly told him that they employ hundreds of people and equipment worth thousands of crores. He then intended to lease a transponder in Hong Kong and broadcast from there. STAR’s Li Ka-shing was not so receptive to the idea of broadcasting business in India. After many twists and turns, he rented a transponder; and India’s got its first Hindi channel in the Star bouquet in 1992. Initially there was only three hours of programming, with reruns of old DD serials. But it soon branched<a href="https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/JV7xB6PWkkl5q2Glq8tT8K/The-zee-story-turns-20.html"> out with chat shows </a>like Chakravyuha. Many media barons like Ronnie Screwala who produced the chat show started their careers at Zee. Pritish Nandy also had a show on it called Fiscal Fitness. The hugely popular Aap Ki Adalat, which now airs on India TV, also debuted on Zee. Rajat Sharma, its popular interviewer, also expanded the group’s political vista. The Union Minister Smriti Irani was briefly a stringer for Zee News which was launched later by the group. She, however, also became the star of Star Plus’ super hit TV show Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi in early 2000s. In addition to comedy shows, Zee diversified into drama shows like Neena Gupta starring Parampara in addition to <keyword id="20328692" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="zee-horror-show" source="keywords">Zee Horror Show</keyword>. Its hugely popular Antakshari show was hosted by stars like Renuka Shahane, Pallavi Joshi and Annu Kapoor. <div type="image" title="annu kapoor" msid="107136187" hostid="261" caption="&amp;lt;p&amp;gt;Source: Twitter (Now X)&amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;"></div> Bags of fan mail In spite of growing success, Chandra had to convince advertisers to shift from print and outdoor ads to TV advertising. He did it by lugging along bags of fan mail sent by viewers of his shows. By the time other players saw how valuable reaching all over India with Hindi shows was, he was miles ahead. He added more channels across movies, music in addition to news, across languages to his bouquet. By the time the world entered the new millennium, he had captured a large chunk of India’s eyeballs, not to mention hearts. The deal with Richard Li, son of Li Ka-shing also included an option to buy 25% stake in the venture within a year. By the time he realised it was good business, the option had long expired. Chandra refused to sell him the stake, took his company public, and the issue was subscribed 60 times over. The goatee-sporting man had become one of India’s first media barons and a billionaire. A failed hostile takeover By 2004, his media conglomerate was running steady, but Chandra, true to himself, was already hunting for the next big bet. The sector he chose was infrastructure. Back then, India was building roads, adding power generation as well as distribution assets, and setting-up ports and airports with a renewed fervour. Many small regional players like GMR and GVK became national companies after they won large-scale airport projects. It seemed like a good business. However, by the time Chandra entered it in 2008, the sector was showing signs of fatigue, due to credit crunch and more. Players were seeing the effects of adding heavy debt onto books. One such company was Hyderabad-based IVRCL which had a good set of projects, sizeable orderbook but was crushing under debt, in 2012. It was borrowing money for working capital purposes, and projects were moving ahead slower. Chandra believed that a hostile takeover of the company would catalyse its infra business which was executing a few highway projects. He went in and acquired a tad over 12% stake in the company when IVRCL too changed track. It stopped bidding for new projects, started monetising its projects and paring down its debt. Eventually Chandra had to sell off his stock at a loss. Takeovers are a high stakes game. Though the financials were never disclosed, the assumption, based on the company’s market cap at that time, he might have spent ₹200 crore on it. On the other hand, its own infrastructure business never scaled up later on, and continued to report deep losses for the next few years. It was a strategy gone wrong, as he later admitted in his open letter. Politics to pledging In 2016, Chandra made his political debut to become a Rajya Sabha MP representing BJP in Haryana. The close contest between him and the Congress candidate R K Anand was also interesting in other ways too. Chandra was declared winner after 14 votes were made invalid as they used the wrong pens. In 2022, Chandra changed his ‘native home <a href="https://www.newslaundry.com/2022/06/08/why-subhash-chandras-rajya-sabha-dreams-are-now-congresss-nightmares">town’ to Rajasthan</a> and filed his nomination as an independent candidate backed by BJP. He however accepted defeat after he fell short of over 40 votes. On the other end, his business was branching out into many businesses, with varying successes, soaking in capital. It entered financial services, acquired Peerless Mutual Fund, investment banking, private equity and much more. It went into education with a chain of K-12 schools, gold refineries in addition to related media businesses like Fun Cinemas and Dish TV. He also had plans for a wellness company. These expansions came at a cost, and a huge debt. The group soon had 87 operating companies which had straddled debt to the tune of ₹17,000 crore, as per estimates. How was so much money raised? The promoters had to pledge their shares in listed entities like Zee Entertainment, Dish TV, Zee Media Corporation, SITI Networks, <keyword id="19960022" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="zee-learn" source="keywords">Zee Learn</keyword> and Shirpur Gold refinery. Reports suggest that <a href="https://www.thequint.com/amp/story/news%2Fbusiness%2Fdoes-zee-news-need-a-commercial-bank-subhash-chandra#read-more">anywhere between 60-90% of their </a>shares in these companies were pledged with lenders in the mid-2010s. The chickens however came to roost in 2018 when the<a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/stocks/news/ilfs-crisis-spilling-beyond-finance-chandras-zee-feeling-the-heat/articleshow/67734787.cms?from=mdr"> NBFC IL&amp;FS bankruptcy spooke</a>d the markets, making it tough for him to rollover debt. The loss of crown jewel Soon, the promoters were forced to sell the stake that they had pledged. Zee’s promoter shareholding fell from 42% to a dismal 4% in its crown jewel, Zee Entertainment. In the meanwhile, its flagship Zee’s earnings also started dwindling, worrying analysts and investors; that led the market regulator to look into it. Between 2021 and 2023, its profits slid by 48%. In 2021, for the second time in two years, Chandra admitted to his mistakes that led to default. He announced <a href="https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/media/entertainment/media/subhash-chandra-claims-91-debt-with-43-lenders-settled/articleshow/85007881.cms?from=mdr">that he had settled</a> 91% of his debts with 43 lenders. “I have no regrets for parting with a substantial ownership in the business and specially in the jewels of the crown,” he said in an open letter. Apart from the promoter crisis, the businesses were moving at a slow pace too. Satellite pay TV has become less attractive to viewers now used to streaming. Dish TV, owned by his brother, has been losing steam as well. Edtech is facing its own existential crisis. His digital ventures of Zee5 progressed but at a slow rate due to heavy competition. There are no updates on his plans for its metaverse venture, oddly named Maayaverse. On top of it, Zee’s plans to merge with Sony fell through, after two years of negotiations. Sony is also seeking a $90 million termination fee, which Zee intends to contest. That means more legal troubles, barely a year after it settled a dispute with J C Flowers, an asset reconstruction company. Chandra and his son Puneet Goenka are now part of a <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/sebi-subhash-chandra-punit-goenka-sebis-flowcharts-explain-how-zee-bosses-allegedly-faked-loan-recovery-4119857">probe by market regulator SEBI</a>, to see if money was siphoned off from the listed entities. That would be a tough spot to any businessman, let alone one who is devoid of crown jewels and without a seat in the parliament. SEE ALSO <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/personalities/webstories/subrata-roys-journey-from-lucknows-sahara-shahar-to-londons-grosvenor-house-to-tihar-jail/slidelist/105234003.cms">Subrata Roy’s journey from Lucknow’s Sahara Shahar to London’s Grosvenor House to Tihar Jail</a>

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<ul><li><keyword id="4487411" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="bigg-boss-tamil">Bigg Boss Tamil</keyword> Season 3 was the highest watched entertainment show on Hotstar over the past year in India. </li><li>People also watched Koffee with Karan, <keyword id="83396" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Yeh-Rishta-Kya-Kehlata-Hai">Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai</keyword>, Bigg Boss Telugu, Kasthooriman (Malayalam) and Ke Apon Ke Por (Bengali). </li><li>Hotstar saw 63% of its total entertainment consumption come from non-metro cities. </li><li>Over 40% of the video content was consumed in regional languages with Telugu, Tamil and Bengali at the top. </li></ul>Bigg Boss Tamil Season 3 was the highest watched entertainment show on Hotstar over the past year in India. Part of this can be attributed to rise in regional language content. Over <a href="http://secure-media.hotstar.com/media-website/indiawatchreport2019/India_Watch_Report_2019.pdf">40% of the video content was consumed</a> in regional languages with Telugu, Tamil and Bengali at the top. According to Hotstar, 35% of Bengali consumption comes from outside the state. Whereas, most (80%) of Tamil and Telugu consumption came from the native states. Some other regional language content includes Bigg Boss Telugu, Kasthooriman (Malayalam) and Ke Apon Ke Por (Bengali). Hotstar had a great year. It saw 5400 million downloads⁠— <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/news/hotstar-india-watch-report-2019-shows-95-consumption-came-from-mobile-phones/articleshow/72456426.cms">an average of 555 installs per minute in 2019 </a> — thanks to India’s increasing smartphone penetration and cheap data. People chose entertainment over sports on Hotstar — with drama being the favorite genre. As we approach the end of 2019, here are the top 6 shows that India watched the most on Hotstar: Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata hai (Hindi) <div type="image" title="Capture6" msid="72468038" hostid="261"></div>

 Director: Romesh Kalra, Rishi Mandial, Ram Pandey Star: Shivangi Joshi, Monsin Khan Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata hai is the fourth longest running soap opera in India. It was started a decade ago. The current show stars Shivangi Joshi and <keyword id="6372882" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="mohsin-khan">Mohsin Khan</keyword>. More than half the audience of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai on Hotstar audience is women Koffee with Karan (English) <div type="image" title="Capture5" msid="72468011" hostid="261"></div>

 Director and Producer: <keyword id="3778" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Karan-Johar">Karan Johar</keyword> Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Sara Ali Khan, Ananya Pandey, <keyword id="133664" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Tiger-Shroff">Tiger Shroff</keyword> etc. People love coffee and Bollywood gossip. Every year Karan Johar’s Koffee with Karan brings the latest news from the Indian film industry. This year Sara Khan’s debut to the show was the most watched Koffee with Karan episode — with 1.4X the average viewers, according to Hotstar. Moreover, a third of viewers of the show are from Mumbai. Bigg Boss Tamil Season 3 <div type="image" title="1569223471-1569171310_losliya-cheran-bigg-boss-tamil-3" msid="72467911" hostid="261"></div>

 Stars: Mugen, Sandy, Losliya, Sherin Shringar, Kavin, Cheran etc. Bigg Boss Tamil Season 3 was crowned as the most watched entertainment show on Hotstar. It registered 1.5X the consumption of Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai (top Hindi show), according to Hotstar. The third season of the reality show began on 23 June with 17 contestants and <keyword id="6354603" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="kamal-haasan">Kamal Haasan</keyword> as the host. Bigg Boss Telugu Season 3 <div type="image" title="bigg-boss-telugu-3-winner-759" msid="72467929" hostid="261"></div>

 Stars: Ali Reza, Himaja, Punarnavi Bhupalam, Varun Sandesh etc. Another Bigg Boss regional content in the top category was its Telugu version. The third season of Bigg Boss Telugu began on 21 July 2019 and was hosted by Akkineni Nagarjuna. It also had a guest host — Ramya Krishnan. Kasthooriman (Malayalam) <div type="image" title="64915950" msid="72467940" hostid="261"></div>

 Director: Sunil Karyatuukara, Krishna Moorthy, Sachin K. Ibague Stars: Sreeram Ramachandran, Rebecca Santhosh, Beena Antony Kashthooriman is a Malayalam soap opera first premiered in 2017. The show is about the life of a widow and her three unmarried daughters. It is the top viewed series on Malayalam television, according to Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC). Ke Apon Ke Por (Bengali) <div type="image" title="Capture" msid="72467965" hostid="261"></div>

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With Bigg Boss 8 ending in all its glory last Saturday, the curtains have risen for the historical show Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat. It has Siddharth Nigam in the lead role, the child actor who rose to fame after Dhoom 3. The show unfolds the saga of the great king Ashoka, and his transition from just another prince to one of the greatest rulers of the world. 
 
Other than Siddharth, the show has an ensemble cast of Manoj Joshi, Pallavi Subhash and Sameer Dharmadhikari, and Sumit Kaul. 
Manoj Joshi, who is donning the role of Chanakya, is quite known for seamlessly portraying the character in a play titled Chanakya for years now. 
 
Pallavi Subhash plays Queen Dharma, Ashoka’s mother. As per the advertisements being run for the show, Ashoka builds the whole empire for the honour of his mother. 
 
Playing the role of King Bindusara is Sameer Dharmadhikari, who has been in many historical and mythological shows like Jhansi Ki Rani, Buddha and Mahabharat. 
 
What makes this show different from others is the massive set that has been set up in the town of Karjat, 60 kms from Mumbai. Since the show is about the lives of Kings and Queens, the set had to be massive and the makers made sure that the audience gets a glimpse into the royalty. 
 
Talking of the producers, the show has been produced by Cantiloe, the production company behind shows like Veer Shivaji, Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap, and Jhansi Ki Rani. 
 
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The weekend show starts from ​8 PM on 27th September, and will be sponsored by Karbonn Mobiles, and powered by Lifebuoy.

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