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Haroon Rashid finishes film in one take
MUMBAI: After Roop Tera Mastana… from Aradhana which was supposedly canned in a single take on Rajesh Khanna and Sharmila Tagore by Shakti Samanta, filmmakers have often tried to do such sort of achievement.
The latest is debutant director Haroon Rashid who has completed a feature film of two hours and twenty minutes length in just one take without a single cut. Rashid claims that the film, titled One Shot Fear Without A Cut, is qualified as the world‘s longest one-take film and has been sent to the Guinness book of world records for the same.
The film’s story revolves around the TRP game of media and how a team of a particular television channel gets trapped in this race and desires to get fame and recognition overnight. This greed of theirs takes them to a haunted place, uninhabited for several years. The crux of the film follows hereon.
Rashid who wrote and directed the film had to double up as the cinematographer as well after many DOPs (director of photography) deserted him midway after a few days of rehearsal.
On the challenges, Rashid said, “We shot a full-length film with songs, dance, real-time action and chase scenes spread across seven kilometers on actual locations. We were very accurate in what we did because if one would have gone wrong we would have had to do it all over again.”
To make sure nothing went wrong, Rashid rehearsed with his crew for a few months. “We rehearsed for almost five months before shooting the film and we got it right in the seventh or eighth final take,” he pointed out.
The film is a magnificent presentation of a very well synchronized team-work. Covering four locations over a distance of seven kilometers, starting from the sea to the road, road to the jungle and jungle to the final building, again all in one shot was no easy task.”It took a lot of courage, passion, trust and faith to achieve our goal, “observed Rashid.
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India’s telecom subscribers cross 1.32 billion in February 2026
Broadband base swells past 1.06 billion as Jio and Airtel tighten grip on the market.
MUMBAI: India’s telecom sector is ringing in steady growth once again adding millions of new connections every month while the race for broadband supremacy continues to heat up like a fiercely contested cricket match. According to the latest data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on 1 April 2026, the total telephone subscriber base in the country reached 1,321.31 million at the end of February 2026. This marked a net addition of 7.31 million subscribers during the month, translating into a monthly growth rate of 0.56 per cent.
Wireless subscribers (including mobile and Fixed Wireless Access) stood at 1,273.31 million, registering a net addition of 6.97 million and a growth rate of 0.55 per cent. Within this, urban wireless connections grew to 730.75 million (growth 0.70 per cent), while rural wireless subscribers reached 542.56 million (growth 0.35 per cent).
Wireline subscribers, though much smaller in scale, showed slightly faster growth. The total wireline base increased to 47.99 million, with a net addition of 0.34 million and a monthly growth rate of 0.70 per cent. Urban areas continued to dominate wireline connections with a share of 89.41 per cent.
Overall tele-density in India improved to 92.66 per cent. Urban tele-density stood at 150.68 per cent, while rural tele-density edged up to 60.02 per cent.
The broadband subscriber base crossed a significant milestone, reaching 1,059.05 million at the end of February 2026. This reflected a healthy net addition of 6.33 million subscribers and a monthly growth rate of 0.60 per cent from January’s figure of 1,052.72 million.
Segment-wise, mobile wireless access continued to drive the majority of growth with 996.52 million subscribers. Fixed Wireless Access (including 5G FWA) added 16.51 million, while wired broadband stood at 46.02 million.
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. maintained its commanding lead with 519.64 million broadband subscribers. Bharti Airtel Ltd. followed with 364.14 million, Vodafone Idea Ltd. with 129.36 million, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. with 28.70 million, and Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd. with 2.38 million.
Together, these top five players command a massive 98.60 per cent share of the total broadband market.
In the wireless (mobile) segment, private operators continued to dominate with 92.59 per cent market share, leaving public sector undertakings (BSNL and MTNL) with just 7.41 per cent.
Out of the total 1,257.29 million wireless (mobile) subscribers, 1,177.60 million were active on the peak Visitor Location Register (VLR) date, representing an impressive 93.66 per cent activity rate. Bharti Airtel led in this metric with 99.42 per cent of its subscribers active.
Meanwhile, 14.47 million subscribers submitted requests for Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in February, indicating healthy competition and customer churn across zones.
While urban areas still lead in absolute numbers, rural connectivity is slowly catching up. Rural wireless tele-density stood at 59.46 per cent, compared with the much higher urban figure of 142.32 per cent.
Fixed Wireless Access using 5G technology also showed promising traction, growing to 11.93 million subscribers. Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel are the primary players driving this segment.
The data paints a picture of a maturing yet still rapidly expanding telecom ecosystem. With total telephone subscribers now well past the 1.32 billion mark and broadband users comfortably above 1.06 billion, India continues to solidify its position as one of the world’s largest and most dynamic digital markets.
From bustling city streets to remote villages, more Indians are staying connected than ever before proving that when it comes to telecom, the country’s appetite for growth shows no signs of hanging up anytime soon.
