Walt Disney to sell Star India channels - Nayanthara role revealed and Kiara in Jawan

According to reports from the Wall Street Journal and Reuters, Jio Cinema's entry into the streaming market has compelled Disney + Hotstar to explore options such as sale or joint venture. Star India, a subsidiary of Disney, has reportedly incurred a loss of Rs 2000 crores due to Jio Cinema outbidding them for the IPL match telecast rights. Jio Cinema, a free app, streamed the matches for free and has now started offering new movies for free as well. Disney, which acquired the IPL rights until 2027 for $3 billion, is concerned about how to recover their investment. In 2011-12, Disney purchased UTV in a deal worth approximately Rs. 2,600 crore but subsequently closed down all business verticals, including the broadcast division. Star India, acquired by Disney from 21st Century Fox in 2019, was a key asset for Disney's expansion in the Indian television market. K Madhavan, the President of Walt Disney India operations and Star India TV channels, has a background in the banking industry. He played a pivotal role in the growth of the Malayalam channel Asianet and continues to serve as its Managing Director. He was later promoted to head the Star Channels South division and eventually became the country manager. Following Disney's acquisition of Star India, he assumed the position of President. Star India has 60 channels and in South it has Asianet ( Malayalam) Star Vijay ( Tamil) Suvarna ( Kannada) and Star Maa in Telugu. Asianet News and Suvarna News is owned by Rajeev Chandrasekar MP from Karnataka.

Following the preview of the film "Jawan" on the internet, new information has emerged. Kiara Advani will be featured in a special song with SRK, while Nayanthara will play SRK's love interest. SRK sports a tattoo on his bald head that reads "Maa Jagath Janani," meaning Mother of the World. Additionally, Deepika Padukone will make a cameo appearance in the film. There is a scene featuring a man tipping his hat, which fans believe is Thalapathy Vijay' as it was his famous pose in "Mersal." Nayanthara's husband, Vignesh Shivan, inadvertently revealed that Nayanthara is SRK's love interest. In a tweet, he mentioned hearing about the many romantic moments she shares with SRK and how she has learned a lot from the King of Romance. This was in response to SRK cautioning Vignesh to be careful as his wife has now learned punches and kicks, referring to her training for the film. There were reports that suggested that Nayanthara was playing an NSG commando on trail of SRK and was not the love interest.

Mohanlal bigger draw than Salman- Kamal - Nag : Disney Chief

 Walt Disney India President K Madhavan said -" In the history of Bigg Boss conducted in many languages, Malayalam is only one with double digit TRP and that is because of Mohanlal ". He went to elaborate on how the actor handles the contestants etc as the host. Now BB Hindi is in 15 th year, and Tamil - Telegu in its Season 5 and is hosted by Salman Khan- Kamal Hassan- Nagarjuna in that order. So it means that these three actors as compared to Mohanlal as TV host , is very poor and not able to muster the numbers. Apart from this Asianet is not ranked in the top 10 GEC of BARC and despite that the BB show getting TRP to beat Hindi coming on Colors Tv and Salman has been host for past 12 seasons, Telegu BB comes on Star  Maa ( rated top 5 among South channels by BARC) with three out of five hosted by Nagarjuna and Tamil BB in Star Vijay which is second after Sun and in BARC list has Kamal Haasan doing the honours with Simbu stepping in a few episodes of Ultimate.

Now lets get into details spelled out by Mohanlal about the voting figures given to him by the producers.- Banijay and platform Disney Hotstar on OTT - Asianet satellite. On finale voting touched 21 crores ( for all contestants). 39% of the votes was got by winner Dilsha Prasannan. 

BB Malayalam was streamed live this time on Disney Hotstar and a 90 minute capsule on Asianet. Madhavan is also President of Star India which also owns Asianet. An ad agency friend gave us a sample of a week TRP of Asianet with BB 4 show included. It is the figures before Dr Robin got evicted .We reproduce it:

As in earlier seasons, double digit figures touched only on weekend when Mohanlal came on screen. This double digit figure was below the TRP of other soap serials on Asianet. This was the case with all languages .BB never maintained double digit through out the week. Yet another change in sponsorship is that Rs 50 lakh cheque was given by channel and not keys to a flat by Confident Group. as the tag line sangathi colour aakkum ( things will be colourful), Hopefully not red. Dilsha Prasannan who won the just concluded BB Malayalam 4 is first woman winner of the show,

TRP Ratings of Bigg Boss Malayalam

Day	Week 27	Week 26
Saturday	10.32	N/A
Sunday	9.20	10.33
Monday	8.13	9.50
Tuesday	8.95	9.35
Wednesday	8.12	7.05
Thursday	8.92	8.01
Friday	10.61	8.30
Average	8.76	9.18