Amazon Prime Apologizes For Religious Offence Caused by ‘Tandav’ as Indian Government Sets Strict Content Code

Naman Ramachandran The burgeoning Asian webtoon market is set to expand further with the April launch of Graphic India’s Toonsutra, a comics platform for mobile devices.Toonsutra is differentiated, in that, in addition to standalone comics, it will offer exclusive original web comics based on hit Indian film and TV properties including S.S.

We're literally minutes away from finally getting to consume Zack Snyder's magnanimous version of Justice League, which has been a long time coming.

Lionsgate Play, the Mumbai-based streaming service operated by STARZ, unveiled its second original series Wednesday targeting the fast-growing India market. A college romance drama series, U Special will be headed up by veteran actor/writer/director Akarsh Khurana as showrunner.

Naman Ramachandran Amazon Prime Video is making its first foray into Indian feature movie co-production with Bollywood film “Ram Setu,” starring Akshay Kumar.Directed by Abhishek Sharma (“Parmanu”) with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi (“Prithviraj Chauhan”) as creative producer, the film is an action-adventure drama that is rooted in Indian cultural and historical heritage.

In a first for its Indian operations, Amazon Prime Video will act as co-producer on upcoming Hindi movie Ram Setu, which will be led by superstar Akshay Kumar.

The movie is directed by Manjari Makijany, an Indian writer-director based in Los Angeles. She has also worked on Desert Dolphin, India’s first skateboarding feature, which will be released globally on Netflix in 2021. Vandana is seen here celebrating Diwali with her co-actors from Spin.

The Oscars 2021 nominees announcement was historic in more ways than one. While diversity was at play, several artists like Viola Davis, Chloe Zhao, Riz Ahmed, Steven Yeun and Emerald Fennel made history with their nominations.

Spin, Disney Channel's first original TV movie with an Indian American lead centered on Indian culture — and only ET has the exclusive scoop.  follows Rhea ('s Avantika), an Indian American teen who learns she has a passion for creating DJ mixes that blend the textures of her Indian heritage and the world around her.

Naman Ramachandran Indian government body, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, has sent a notice to Netflix calling on it to stop streaming “Bombay Begums,” on the grounds that the original series could incite “abuse and exploitation.”The notice, issued on Thursday, demands that Netflix stop streaming the series, which bowed on March 8, within 24 hours, and provide a detailed action report, failing which “the Commission will be constrained to initiate appropriate action”

Naman Ramachandran Most Paramount Plus content will be housed exclusively on Viacom18’s streamer Voot Select in India, alongside new programming from Showtime and other CBS content.“As Paramount Plus rolls out globally, we’ll (need) to work a strategy there to sort of see what decisions we make for the India market,” Ferzad Palia, head, Voot Select and international business, Viacom18, told Variety.

Priyanka Chopra, riding high on the strength of her starring and executive producing role in the Netflix hit White Tiger, is entering the restaurant business. She will be opening the Indian cuisine eatery SONA this month in New York City.

Hollywood's much loved couple Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are sending their fans across the continent into a frenzy. It all started when Chrissy shared a video on Instagram of herself grooving to some foot tapping Bollywood music.

has donned yet another hat! After being a successful actress, producer, author and entrepreneur, Priyanka Chopra Jonas is now a restaurateur. The actress took to social media to announce that she is now the proud co-owner of an Indian restaurant in New York.

EXCLUSIVE: Mumbai-based Abundantia Entertainment, which has credits including the Amazon series Breathe and follow-up Breathe: Into The Shadows, has taken rights to the Indian young adult book Along Came A Spyder.

Netflix has unveiled an enormous slate of 40 film and TV titles targeting the fast-growing Indian streaming market at a gala event held Wednesday in Mumbai. Dubbed "See What’s Next India 2021," the gathering was hosted by Netflix's top two executives in the country, Monika Shergill, vp of content for Netflix India, andSrishti Behl Arya, director of international original film.

Towards the end of last month, EXO-Ls were given the confirmed statement by SM Entertainment that beloved EXO member Chanyeol will be enlisting in the military on March 29. Chanyeol is now the fifth EXO member after Xiumin, D.O., Suho and Chen to enlist.

direct to your inbox The future of the West Indian Community Centre in Longsight has been put in doubt after members received a letter informing them that a planning proposal had been submitted for the land.

“I know I’ve said highly problematic, highly hurtful things in the past,” Taylor Nolan, 27, said at the start of her lengthy apology video, posted to Instagram on Sunday (Feb. 28.) Over the weekend, fans on Reddit had dug up some tweets from 2011 and 2012 where a teenage Taylor insulted different ethnic groups like Jews, Asians, and Indians.

Former Bachelor contestant Taylor Nolan is speaking out after insensitive tweets from her past have resurfaced.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaLyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s assured feature debut plays like a much-needed corrective to decades of problematic depictions of the indigenous community on film.