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EPIC ON partners with CloudWalker
MUMBAI: EPIC ON, the premium OTT platform known for its diverse India-centric content by IN10 Media Network, today announced a significant partnership with leading online smart TV brand CloudWalker. This partnership enables EPIC ON to be pre-embedded into CloudWalker smart screens and smart TVs, allowing users quick and easy access to the platform’s exceptional content library.
EPIC ON hosts a wide array of series focused on the premise of ‘India’s Storytellers’, and will be soon adding a mixed bag of content formats for its new and revamped avatar. Apart from the existing premium library of EPIC ON, Cloudwalker users will have access to live stream the network’s linear broadcast channels: EPIC TV – India Ka Apna Infotainment, ShowBox – Apna Music, Apna Swag and newly launched Filamchi – Filman Ka Laalchi. With this partnership, EPIC ON further strengthens its penetration in the smart TV market with CloudWalker’s 4K LED Smart Screens, thus accelerating its progress towards reaching a new set of viewers.
Along with CloudWalker Smart TVs, EPIC ON will also be part of Cloud TV OS, a certified AOSP operating system for Android-based smart TVs. EPIC ON is now a built-in app for all Cloud TV OS powered Smart TVs like Daiwa, Shinco, Videotex, Telefunken, Hyundai, Lloyd amongst the others.
EPIC ON COO Sourjya Mohanty said, “The Indian market has seen a rapid growth in the demand for Smart TVs and eventually the new offering of Smart Screens from CloudWalker. This shift in the consumption pattern enables us to partner and provide our high-quality content across various screens. Our association with the smart technology driven company CloudWalker, is a step forward in providing a seamless viewing experience along with further expanding our reach within Smart TV users.”
CloudWalker president Jagdish Rajpurohit said, “In this age of digitization, consumers’ TV consumption patterns are rapidly evolving. They are now constantly looking for intelligent entertainment solutions that can allow them to easily stream a wide variety of entertainment content. We are delighted to partner with EPIC ON that offers an incredible collection of entertaining and informative India-centric TV shows, short videos, documentaries, and specials across multiple content genres. Our users will now be able to subscribe to EPIC ON as well as the ShowBox Music channel along with thousands of hours of entertaining digital content available on CloudWalker’s Smart Screens and TVs. By bringing this vast gamut of uninterrupted immersive content, we are looking forward to an affirmative response from our users.”
Arjun Bajaaj, director – Videotex International, CEO and founder – Daiwa and Shinco, said, “We at Videotex, want to bring the ultimate end to end experience for our OEM customers as well as our brands Daiwa, Shinco and Telefunken in India. In sync, we are glad to partner with EPIC ON which has very detailed and enriched content across genres especially for the Indian audience – Hindi language TV shows, Sports, Mythology etc. Our partnership shall strengthen the Home entertainment eco-system, with the wide base of OTT content curated for our varied demographics."
Along with being available on the CloudWalker Smart TVs, EPIC ON smartphone app is also available across iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Fire TV and others.
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Prime Video to stream Tamil thriller Exam from May 15
Seven-episode series from National Award-winner A. Sarkunam streams in India and 240-plus countries
MUMBAI: Prime Video announced on April 27th that Exam, a taut seven-episode suspense drama set against the crucible of high-stakes competitive testing, will premiere on May 15th in India and across more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
Written and directed by A. Sarkunam, a National Award-winner, the series is produced under the Wallwatcher Films banner by the creative duo Pushkar and Gayatri, who have previously delivered Suzhal: The Vortex (both seasons) and Vadhandhi: The Fable of Velonie for the platform. Dushara Vijayan and Aditi Balan lead the cast, with Abbas in a pivotal role.
The show will stream in Tamil with dubbed versions in Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada, and subtitles in 15 languages, including English, a distribution sweep that underscores Prime Video’s push to globalise Indian regional content.
Nikhil Madhok, director and head of originals at Prime Video India, framed the series as both timely and commercially astute. “Exam is a very timely and relevant story that captures the emotional intensity of competitive exams and masterfully transforms it into a thrilling high-stakes drama,” he said. “We believe it is a story that will resonate deeply with millions.” Madhok noted that it was a privilege to once again collaborate with Pushkar and Gayatri following the success of Suzhal and Vadhandhi.
For Pushkar and Gayatri, the series is as much a moral reckoning as a thriller. “With Exam, we wanted to dig into ambition, injustice, and those moral crossroads that people face when pushed to the edge,” the creative producers said. “At the heart of this story is a young woman who refuses to remain powerless. Her journey is not about glamorising defiance, but about exploring the emotional and ethical cost of standing up to a system stacked against her.” They described Prime Video as “an incredible collaborator” and “the perfect home” to bring the series to global audiences.
Wallwatcher Films, which Pushkar and Gayatri founded and run, has been on a productive streak with the platform. Beyond Exam, the company is also readying Vadhandhi Season 2 for Prime Video, making the duo one of the platform’s most active regional creative partners.
The real exam, it seems, is for Prime Video itself: can a Tamil drama about systemic injustice and a young woman’s defiance crack audiences from Chennai to Chicago? If Pushkar and Gayatri’s track record is anything to go by, the answer is likely yes, and the results will be out on May 15th.
