New Delhi: Amazon Prime Video will premiere its new Tamil anthology Putham Pudhu Kaalai Vidiyaadhaa on 14 January. It’s the second instalment of the beforehand launched Tamil anthology Putham Pudhu Kaalai and stars Joju George, Nadiya Moidu, Lijomol Jose, Arjun Das and Aishwarya Lekshmi amongst others.
To make certain, each Netflix and Amazon have been betting huge on anthologies throughout languages, with exhibits similar to Paava Kadhaigal, Pitta Kathalu, Navarasa, Ajeeb Daastaans, Unpaused and Putham Pudhu Kaalai.
Amazon Prime Video had confronted controversies final 12 months for net exhibits like Tandav and Mirzapur 2. It additionally introduced a foray into movie manufacturing with Akshay Kumar-starrer Ram Setu. Increasing its slate throughout a number of Indian languages, it has launched Putham Pudhu Kaalai, a Tamil anthology of 5 brief movies with Rajiv Menon, Suhasini Mani Ratnam, and Karthik Subbaraj apart from buying a bunch of Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam movies in the course of the pandemic.
Final September, Amazon had turned content material aggregator in India with the launch of Prime Video Channels that may make eight different subscription-driven video-on-demand platforms accessible on its app and web site.
Prime Video clients will be capable of entry streaming providers similar to Discovery+, Lionsgate Play, Docubay, Eros Now, MUBI, Hoichoi, Manorama Max, and Shorts TV with add-on subscriptions, paying for the providers they select. There will likely be a single billing mechanism.
Final January, it additionally introduced its first mobile-only plan on the planet, beginning with India. The transfer got here greater than a 12 months after US rival Netflix launched its cellular plan priced at ₹199 (now Rs. 149) a month in India.
Launched in collaboration with telecom firm Bharti Airtel, the Amazon plan wis solely accessible to pre-paid Airtel customers in a number of kinds – a 30-day free trial which can be adopted by a 28-day plan priced at Rs. 89 for Prime Video content material together with 6GB information.
Supply: Live Mint