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Reliance Trends releases a latest film for its winter collection
Mumbai: Fashion and apparel brand Reliance Trends has partnered with creative marketing and advertising agency Social Panga to release a unique campaign with the onset of winter.
Conceptualised by Social Panga, the integrated campaign has been executed by production house The Yellow Shutter.
This integrated campaign attempts to capture the essence of winter and high fashion in Delhi NCR. The film is targeted at bringing the best of everyday high fashion to the audience, turning the very lifeline of the city, the Metro, into a ramp.
The campaign will be promoted across multiple platforms, including print, digital, and social media.
“The metro is an intrinsic part of the city; we found this to be a perfect setup to be the runway for winter fashion. The idea was to change the drab perception of winter that people have, wherein they repeat jackets, and to showcase the Trends winter collection in all its glory,” said Social Panga co-founder Gaurav Arora.
Reliance Trends COO Vipin Tyagi added, “Winters are an important part of every brand’s fashion calendar. But we wanted to do something that the city would remember. We wanted to show them that they could exercise high fashion even in their everyday life. And the campaign just fits the bill.”
Commenting on the campaign and ideation, Social Panga creative director Archana Sudarsan said, “This was an exciting one for us because the concept was so unique. The location added the extra flair, and the campaign truly redefines winter fashion in the modern Indian’s life.”
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Paramount set to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery in $81 billion deal
Shareholders back merger, combined entity could reshape streaming and studios.
MUMBAI: Lights, camera… consolidation, Hollywood’s latest blockbuster might be happening off-screen. Shareholders of Warner Bros. Discovery have voted in favour of selling the company to Paramount in a deal valued at $81 billion rising to nearly $111 billion including debt setting the stage for one of the biggest shake-ups in modern media. The proposed merger, still subject to regulatory approvals, would bring together a vast portfolio spanning HBO Max, CNN, and franchises such as Harry Potter under the same umbrella as Paramount’s own heavyweights, including Top Gun and CBS.
At the heart of the deal is streaming scale. Executives have indicated plans to combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single platform, potentially creating a stronger challenger to giants like Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video. Current market data suggests HBO Max holds around 12 per cent of US on-demand subscriptions, compared to Paramount+’s 3 per cent, together still trailing Netflix’s 19 per cent and Disney’s combined 27 per cent via Disney+ and Hulu.
Paramount CEO David Ellison has signalled that while platforms may merge, HBO’s creative identity will remain intact, stating the brand should “stay HBO” even within a broader ecosystem.
Beyond streaming, the deal would redraw the map for film production. Combining two of Hollywood’s oldest studios Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros., the new entity aims to scale output to over 30 films annually, while maintaining a 45-day theatrical window. Warner Bros. currently commands around 21 per cent of the US box office, compared to Paramount’s 6 per cent, underscoring the strategic weight of the acquisition.
But scale comes with scrutiny. Critics warn that fewer players could mean reduced consumer choice, rising subscription costs, and potential job cuts as the combined company looks to streamline overlapping operations while managing billions in debt.
The news business, too, faces a reset. CNN would join forces at least structurally with Paramount-owned CBS, raising questions about editorial independence and positioning. The merger has already drawn political attention in the United States, particularly given perceived ties between the Ellison family and Donald Trump, though the company maintains that newsroom autonomy will be preserved.
If approved, the deal would mark another milestone in Hollywood’s consolidation wave shrinking the industry’s traditional “big six” studios to a “big four”, with Paramount joining Disney, Universal, and Sony at the top table.
In an industry built on storytelling, this merger may well become its most consequential plot twist yet.
