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ZEE5 ASSOCIATES WITH CLOUDWALKER
MUMBAI: ZEE5, India’s fastest growing digital entertainment platform, announced its partnership with CloudWalker, a leading online Smart TV brand from India. CloudWalker emphasizes on creating digital content solutions with the power of internet on large format screens. Equipped with a self-developed, Made-In-India content discovery and curation engine, CloudWalker Smart TVs will enable users to discover great content and have an amazing digital entertainment experience from the ZEE5 app in a seamless and hassle-free manner, on the big screen.
According to the association, ZEE5 app will be live on CloudWalker’s flagship Smart TV range, “Cloud TV’ available on leading online platforms. ZEE5 will be featuring on the homepage of all CloudWalker Smart TVs.
Manish Aggarwal, Business Head ZEE5 India said, “Escalating technology in smart TVs enables us to empower and interact with our consumers. CloudWalker brings limitless digital content streaming in living rooms. This association will help more users to log onto ZEE5 and enjoy the eclectic choice of content. Additionally, this also takes a step forward to our aim of being present on all Smart TVs and connected devices by the end of this year.”
Jagdish Rajpurohit, President, CloudWalker said, “At CloudWalker, we believe that great digital content merits to be discovered and so we connect the viewers with India’s largest selection of digital content for streaming on TVs. Our goal is to digitalize entertainment across all the living rooms and enable our customers to have a fantastic user-experience. We are hoping that partnership with ZEE5 amplifies our influence.”
In the past few months, ZEE5 has forged several alliances with a view to bring its subscribers the best across the spectrum of digital experiences. With the recent association with VEWD, Xiaomi MiTV, Samsung and now with LG Smart TV, the platform is taking a step forward to strengthen its subscriber reach.
With over 3500 films, 500+ TV shows, 4000+ music videos, 35+ theatre plays and 90+ LIVE TV Channels across 12 languages, ZEE5truly presents a blend of unrivalled content offering for its viewers across the nation. With ZEE5, the global content of Zindagi as a brand, which was widely appreciated across the country, has also been brought back for its loyal viewers.
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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.
