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JioStar names Anvita Thapliyal vice president for content regulation
Disney Star veteran moves to shape compliance, risk and policy at scale
MUMBAI: JioStar has brought in Anvita Thapliyal as vice president, content regulation, sharpening its guardrails as India’s streaming and broadcast markets race ahead under tighter scrutiny.
Thapliyal joins with nearly two decades across television and digital content, straddling creation and compliance in an industry where a single misstep can snowball into regulatory heat. She has most recently led standards and practices at Star India, where she built and ran one of the country’s most established content compliance and risk-mitigation operations across general entertainment, movies and digital platforms.
Her résumé reads like a map of India’s modern media evolution. From supervising fiction at Taurus Telefilms to acquisitions and programming at Palador Pictures, and from content strategy roles at MobilArt and Balaji Telefilms to senior leadership at Disney Star, Thapliyal has worked across the full content lifecycle—development, distribution, monetisation and regulation.
At Disney Star, as director, standards and practices, she led a 30-plus team, drove automation-led change, and crafted content and community policies with a regulatory and brand-safety lens. She also worked closely with creative, sales, marketing and technology teams to pre-empt compliance risks in real time.
Thapliyal has additionally handled large-scale compliance operations for JioHotstar, dealing with the breakneck speed and scale of OTT content. Her expertise spans legal and regulatory compliance across India, South-East Asia, the Middle East and the UK, along with grievance redressal and public-forum governance.
She positions compliance not as censorship but as calibration—balancing artistic freedom with platform integrity, and empathy for creators with accountability to audiences.
As regulators circle closer and platforms grow bigger, JioStar’s bet is clear: in the content gold rush, guardrails are now as valuable as the content itself. And Thapliyal arrives to build them at full throttle.
