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3,750 Radhika Apte: Women-Led Theatrical Releases Need Star Power Radhika Apte says women-led theatrical films need star power to open, so she often ends up in male-led films; Akka hits Netflix Oct 30. News 3,745 Aryan Khan builds a writers’ pool for his next streaming series The filmmaker is looking beyond established writing circles after The Ba***ds of Bollywood, with no cast, plot or schedule yet announced. News 3,683 Aryan Khan scouts young writers for next Red Chillies series Red Chillies is building a bench of emerging writers for its next streaming slate, with Aryan Khan expected to write the next series himself. News 3,567 Massey: 12th Fail’s 8-month run proves story beats scale Vikrant Massey's Homemade Stories debuts with Musafir Cafe, betting that a good story beats scale - as 12th Fail's 8-month run showed. News 3,352 Taapsee’s Gandhari Holds Netflix Global Top 10 for Three Weeks Taapsee Pannu's Gandhari stays on Netflix's Global Top 10 Non-English Films chart for three weeks, even as she calls herself Bollywood's dark horse. News 3,349 Raaj Kumar at 100: Ultra Play opens centenary festival Ultra Play marks Raaj Kumar's centenary with a nine-film October festival, from Mother India to God and Gun, reframing classic clips as full-film viewing. Retrospective 3,211 Saif Ali Khan: OTT is not less, every frame deserves respect Saif Ali Khan argues streaming is not lesser than theatrical: every frame deserves the same respect. The real divide, he says, is box-office pressure, not craft. News 3,202 Rohit Roy on TV Row, Clickbait and Chumbak Rohit Roy answers the dustbin medium backlash, discusses Chumbak with Neena Gupta and argues that mainstream OTT needs better comedies. News 3,179 Why a ₹161 Ticket Is Changing Hindi Rom-Coms OTT and a ₹161 average ticket have changed the calculation for sweet Hindi films like Prem Keetanu. Overpriced F&B is now the top barrier to theatre-going. Box Office

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