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The Viral Fever and Girliyapa win big at India Content Leadership Awards 2018
MUMBAI: The Viral Fever (TVF) and its network channel – Girliyapa – won five awards at India Content Leadership Awards held recently in Mumbai. TVF won the much-coveted Content Enterprise of the Year award along with Best Entertaining Content for Bachelors Season 2. Girliyapa, created for the 21st century woman, won Best Humorous content award for ‘No More Dishstress’ and Best Content in a Video marketing campaign – Special mention for ‘Whisper’s SitImproper’. Sameer Saxena, CCO and Head, TVF Originals, who has even acted in shows such as TVF’s ‘Humorously Yours’, was presented the Content Leader of the Year (Person) award.
TVF Originals, CCO and Head, Sameer Saxena said, “The month has started with a bang for us. The five awards won belong to each person at The Viral Fever and Girliyapa. This recognition will keep pushing us to work harder and create content that viewers will love and relate to. We are always eager to experiment with our content – and we believe this is one of the reasons our viewers accept our content, wholeheartedly.”
The winning shows can be viewed on the links below:
· Best Entertaining Content – Bachelors Season 2 (The Viral Fever) – https://bit.ly/2JnrWJk
· Best Humorous content – No More Dishstress (Girliyapa) – https://bit.ly/2JBDRUS
· Best Content in a Video marketing campaign – Special mention – Whisper’s SitImproper (Girliyapa) – https://bit.ly/2IDByPN
Earlier this year, TVF won multiple awards including Best Story (Akarsh Khurana and Sumeet Vyas for Tripling), Best Music (Amar Mangrulkar), Best Branded Content and Best Marketing Campaign for TVF Tripling. ImMATURE, a yet-unreleased web series by TVF, earned its place among the Top 10 digital series globally, as the only Indian selection to the first edition of the Cannes International Series Festival – CANNESERIES earlier this year. It was screened at Cannes on 11th April, 2018.
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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.
