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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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'Stranger Things' returns with a record haul as season 5 hits 59.6 million views in five days

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  • Season five reaches 59.6m views in five days
  • Becomes Netflix’s biggest English-language launch
  • Beats season four by a wide margin under updated metrics

Stranger Things’ final season breaks records on debut

Netflix’s flagship sci-fi series returns with a record-setting launch. The fifth season of Stranger Things reaches 59.6 million views in its first five days, giving the platform its strongest opening for an English-language series and the third-biggest debut overall, behind the second and third seasons of Squid Game.

This marks a major rise from the fourth season, which opened in 2022 with 287 million hours watched. Under Netflix’s updated “views” metric, that figure translates to around 22 million views. The latest season therefore, posts a 171% increase, though this year’s total covers five days of viewing compared with three for season four.

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