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Tiya Sircar lends her voice to Walking with Dinosaurs 3D
MUMBAI: America-based Indian actor Tiya Sircar, who received rave reviews for her role in “The Internship,” will now lend her voice in the 3D film “Walking with Dinosaurs.”
In the film Sircar plays Juniper, a pretty young Pachyrhinosaurus who lived 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period in what we now call Alaska.
The film, a BBC Earth Films and Evergreen Studios Production presented by Twentieth Century Fox and Reliance Entertainment, opens nationwide 20 December and stars John Leguizamo, Justin Long and Karl Urban and is directed by Barry Cook.
The daughter of college professors, Sircar became involved in the performing arts at the age of three.
She began with dance (ballet, jazz, modern and South Asian folk and classical dance) and then became equally interested in acting and musical theater. She continued to study and perform in school and community productions before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a professional acting career in Hollywood.
In “The Internship,” Sircar played Neha Patel, a “Twilight” fan fiction-obsessed college student possessing little-to-no actual experience in romance. Talking about her role in the film, Sircar told Glamaholic, “I’ve often played the head cheerleader or the bitchy, popular girl in school. I’ve never really played a “nerd” before. It was an eye-opening experience.”
The 31-year-old Austin native said she’s rarely cast as her actual ethnicity. “I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles. I don’t often get Indian girl roles because I’m ‘not Indian enough.”
Her films include “Friends with Benefits” and “17 Again” opposite Zach Efron. Her television credits include voice work on Disney’s “Phineas & Ferb” and onscreen appearances on “Betas,” “The Vampire Diaries,” “The Suite Life on Deck,” “Numb3rs,” “Hannah Montana” and “House M.D.”
According to her IMDB profile, she will be next seen in “Laggies,” a dark comedy about a young woman, played by Keira Knightley, who is stuck in perpetual adolescence who comes up with a novel plan to avoid her boyfriend’s marriage proposal.
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Network18 Q4 revenue grows 9.7 per cent, EBITDA at Rs 30 crore
PAT improves to Rs 306.6 crore, margins steady amid cost pressures.
MUMBAI: Not all news is breaking, some of it is quietly improving. Network18 Media & Investments Limited appears to be doing just that, tightening losses and stabilising margins even as costs continue to weigh on the business. For FY26, the company reported revenue from operations of Rs 1,955.1 crore, up from Rs 1,896.2 crore in FY25, signalling modest top-line growth in a challenging media environment. Total income stood at Rs 1,978.2 crore, compared to Rs 1,913 crore a year earlier.
Profit after tax came in at Rs 306.6 crore for the year, a sharp turnaround from Rs 3,225.4 crore in FY25, largely reflecting the absence of large exceptional items that had inflated the previous year’s numbers. On a more comparable basis, the company’s operating performance showed signs of gradual stabilisation.
However, the quarterly picture remained under pressure. For the March quarter, Network18 reported a loss of Rs 53.1 crore, narrower than the Rs 98.1 crore loss in the same period last year, but still indicative of ongoing cost challenges.
Expenses continued to track high. Total expenses for FY26 stood at Rs 2,235.7 crore, up from Rs 2,197.8 crore in FY25. Key cost heads included operational expenses of Rs 765.9 crore, employee benefits of Rs 475.9 crore, and marketing, distribution and promotional spends of Rs 427.1 crore, underlining the continued investment required to sustain reach and engagement.
At an operating level, margins remained under strain. Operating margin stood at 2.33 per cent for FY26, marginally higher than 1.77 per cent in FY25, while net profit margin remained negative at -13.02 per cent, though improved from -14.89 per cent.
On the balance sheet, total assets rose to Rs 8,957.6 crore as of 31 March 2026, from Rs 8,317.5 crore a year earlier. Equity strengthened to Rs 4,958.7 crore, while borrowings increased to Rs 3,112.8 crore, reflecting a higher reliance on debt to support operations.
Cash flows told a mixed story. While financing activities generated Rs 83.9 crore, operating cash flow remained negative at Rs -24 crore, highlighting ongoing pressure on core cash generation. Cash and cash equivalents, however, improved to Rs 33.9 crore from Rs 1.8 crore.
The numbers point to a company in transition growing revenues, trimming losses, but still grappling with structural cost pressures. In a sector where scale often comes at a price, Network18 seems to be inching towards balance, one quarter at a time.
