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CloudWalker partners with Spuul to liven up the living room with 10,000 hours of your favourite Bollywood and Regional movies
MUMBAI: CloudWalker, a Smart TV company and Spuul, a popular online video streaming service has announced a partnership to enable users to watch Bollywood and regional movies on Cloud TV X2, India’s First 4K-Ready Full HD Smart TV on Android 7.0 Nougat OS. This association will bring about more than 10,000 hours of exciting Bollywood movies right in the living rooms of users of Cloud TV X2, thus providing an immersive viewing experience promised by Cloud TV X2, that’s powered by the latest Android 7.0 Nougat.
Commenting on the association, Jagdish Rajpurohit, President of CloudWalker, said, “At CloudWalker, we are driven with a vision to provide users with the best of digital content and technology on a Smart TV. Thus, after introducing Cloud TV X2 that packs powerful features like a Made in India content discovery & curation engine with the latest Android 7.0 Nougat, we have been working intensely to aggregate the best of digital content for our viewers. To the same end, we are delighted to announce our partnership with Spuul – one of the leading global OTT platform for latest to blockbuster Bollywood movies. We are hopeful that our viewers will prefer to consume this exciting content in our future ready Smart TV, Cloud TV X2.”
Echoing a similar thought, Rajiv Vaidya, CEO at Spuul, added, “Spuul has always been at the forefront of allowing users to consume content on multiple devices like phone, tablet, laptop, e-reader or TV, wherever you go. This association with the latest and futuristic features available on CloudWalker, is a step forward in providing an improved and seamless viewing experience for our users. We look forward to our association with CloudWalker and making our extensive collection of blockbuster Bollywood movies available on Cloud TV X2.”
In the past, CloudWalker had partnered with some of the leading OTT players in India, such as Hotstar, Hungama Play, ESPN and Sun NXT. With the recent association, CloudWalker has further strengthened its content offerings for the Cloud TV X2. To help users comfortably navigate the sea pool of the available content, Cloud TV X2 is powered by a Made-In-India content discovery and curation engine. The engine analyses social and global trends and curates the most popular digital content available over the internet for the viewers.
The Cloud TV X2, CloudWalker’s flagship Smart TV, is India’s First 4K-Ready Full HD smart TV on Android 7.0 Nougat. The state-of-the-art smart TV is available in five screen sizes – 32” | 40”| 43” | 50” | 55” – and can be purchased on Amazon.
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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.
