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BBC Studios India and Amazon miniTV brings their latest Hindi romance drama, Highway Love
Mumbai: All true romantics, gear up as Amazon miniTV has curated another exhilarating classic romcom ‘Highway Love’. The Hindi original love story produced by BBC Studios, is built around an unconventional road trip bringing together two unlikely strangers destined for each other. Featuring Ritvik Sahore and Gayatri Bhardwaj in prominent roles, the plot centres around the journey of two individuals with contrasting ideologies, who cross paths and ignite a captivating romance. With plenty of highs and lows, the story steers through the diversions, detours, milestones, and pit stops of their romantic journey till they reach their destination.
Amazon miniTV head of content Amogh Dusad said, “We at Amazon miniTV, have always strived to present relatable, unique and engaging content across various genres to our audiences. Highway Love is light-hearted romantic drama series which brings an unconventional love story of two strikingly different individuals. Their love story, with its gripping twists and turns, is sure to make the audience fall in love!”
Commenting about the series, BBC Studios India general manager (production) Sameer Gogate said, “We are thrilled to collaborate with Amazon miniTV for Highway Love, an unconventional romcom. This BBC Studios Hindi original further adds to our growing originals portfolio. We are certain that this romantic highway adventure, through its unexpected detours and inevitable pitstops, will tickle a romantic and nostalgic nerve in each one of us.”
Highway Love will premiere exclusively on Amazon miniTV for free, accessible with the click-of-a-button on Amazon’s shopping app and Fire TV.
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WhatsApp may soon let users to pick who sees their status updates
The messaging giant is borrowing a page from Instagram’s playbook as it pushes to give users finer control over their social circles.
CALIFORNIA: WhatsApp is quietly working on a feature that could make its Status function considerably smarter and considerably more private.
According to reports from beta tracking platforms, the app is testing a tool called Status lists, which would allow users to create named groups such as close friends, family and colleagues, and control precisely which group sees each update. It is a meaningful step up from the platform’s current blunt instruments, which offer only three options: share with all contacts, exclude specific people, or manually select individuals each time.
The new feature draws an obvious comparison with Instagram’s Close Friends function, and the resemblance is unlikely to be accidental. Both platforms sit within Meta’s family, and the company has been nudging them toward a common logic of audience segmentation for some time.
The move also fits neatly into WhatsApp’s broader privacy push. The platform has been rolling out enhanced chat protections and is exploring the introduction of usernames, which would allow users to connect without exchanging phone numbers. Status lists extend that philosophy from messaging into broadcasting.
Meanwhile, Status itself has been evolving well beyond its origins as a simple photo-and-text slideshow. The feature now supports music stickers, collages, longer videos and interactive elements, pushing it closer to the social-media-style story format pioneered by Snapchat and refined by Instagram. In that context, finer audience controls are not merely a privacy feature. They are a precondition for people sharing more.
The feature remains in development and has not been confirmed for release. WhatsApp routinely tests tools that are later modified or quietly shelved. But the direction of travel is clear: the app wants Status to be a destination, not an afterthought. Letting users decide exactly who is in the audience is how it gets there.
