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DocuBay brings digital content to TV screens with CloudWalker
MUMBAI: DocuBay, the global premium membership video-on-demand platform by IN10 Media Network has joined hands with leading online Smart TV brand CloudWalker. With CloudWalker’s focus on making popular digital content accessible on big screen for the Indian audience with its Smart Screens and Smart TVs, the partnership will enable the CloudWalker users access to DocuBay’s premium library, comprising of high-definition and 4K documentary features across several genres.
DocuBay is the only documentaries specific platform available on CloudWalker 4K LED SMART SCREEN / TV, adding to CloudWalker’s existing content offering across movies, TV shows, Music, Kids shows, popular videos & many more. Through this partnership, DocuBay gets a chance to engage with new sets of audiences and enhance its network among the Smart TV user community.
CloudWalker users can watch DocuBay’s varied selection of international documentaries, sourced from more than 80 countries, spanning a variety of categories. DocuBay’s intuitive interface makes the discovery of films that suit each member’s preferences easy, through specially-curated categories called ‘Bays’ – Nature, Adventure, Travel, Culture, Science, Biography, and more, in addition to PoliticsBay, along with short snackable clips called DocuBytes for viewing on-the-go. The documentary features encompass diverse human experiences and opinions, varying perspectives and narratives, without boundaries of language, race, geography, or nationality.
DocuBay is available all over the world, on the web, smartphones, and smart TV apps.
Commenting on the partnership, DocuBay COO Akul Tripathi said, “We are confident that Smart TV audiences will be significant contributors to the ever-booming content streaming industry, especially for a platform like DocuBay where watching documentary features on the big screen, is a much enhanced experience, especially in 4K. This partnership is consistent with our vision of building a highly engaged community of documentary lovers.”
CloudWalker president Jagdish Rajpurohit said “With digital content being the crux of today’s smart entertainment consumption amongst the Indian audience, we’re glad to introduce DocuBay’s unique and vast collection of documentaries for our users to stream on the big screen. With Content discovery and curation platform built-in CloudWalker Smart Screens/Smart TVs, bringing thousands of hours of global entertainment across Movies, TV shows, Documentaries, Music, Kids Shows & more for the users, our association with DocuBay is surely going to add more value to the content offering and delight the users.”
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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.
