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Tamannaah Bhatia set for her digital debut

Actress Tamannaah Bhatia, who rose to fame after playing a pivotal part in director S.S. Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali: The Conclusion (2017), is set to enter digital space.

She has been cast to play the female lead in an upcoming web-series which is being bankrolled by ZEE5. Talking about the genre of the web-show, it will be an action-based thriller. The makers are planning to begin production in the next two months.


Tamannaah, who appears in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies, is not the first mainstream actor who is plunging in the digital world. Before her, Saif Ali Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Radhika Apte and several popular actors have appeared on web-shows.

Her Entertainment (2014) co-star Akshay Kumar is also set to make his digital debut with Amazon Prime Video’s The End.

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5 mythological picks now streaming in the UK — must-watch

Why UK audiences are turning to Indian mythology — and the OTT releases driving the trend this year

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5 mythological picks now streaming in the UK — and why they’re worth watching

Highlights:

  • Indian mythological titles are landing on global OTT services with better quality and reach.
  • Netflix leads the push with Kurukshetra and Mahavatar Narsimha.
  • UK viewers can access some titles now, though licensing varies.
  • Regional stories and folklore films are expanding the genre.
  • 2025 marks the start of long-form mythological world-building on OTT.

There’s a quiet shift happening on streaming platforms this year. Indian mythological stories, once treated as children’s animation or festival reruns, have started landing on global services with serious ambition. These titles are travelling further than they ever have, including into the UK’s busy OTT space.

It’s about scale, quality, and the strange comfort of old stories in a digital world that changes too fast. And in a UK market dealing with subscription fatigue, anything fresh, strong, and rooted in clear storytelling gets noticed.

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