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hoichoi among Top 10 Grossing Entertainment Apps on iOS
MUMBAI: hoichoi, the world’s largest digital Bengali content platform has time and again aimed to redefine India’s OTT space for regional languages. Recently, hoichoi completed a year on 20th September and revealed many exciting announcements, which since have had their audience ecstatic about what’s in store. Within a year of its launch, hoichoi has streamed over 240 million minutes of content.
With many milestones are being touched, hoichoi in the month of November has secured its place among the top 10 grossing entertainment apps on the iOS platform, in India. Audience have subscribed to the app after downloading it, through the iTunes payment ecosystem.
hoichoi Co-Founder, Vishnu Mohta exclaimed, “hoichoi was launched with a mission of reaching out to the 250+ million Bengali’s residing worldwide. These new developments are highly encouraging that a regional app whose only barrier is that its language specific, is among the top 10 where Netflix, Sony Liv and all other National apps are included.”
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Tips Music CEO Hari Nair to step down
Girish Taurani and Sushant Dalmia to jointly steer the company as the hunt for a new chief begins
MUMBAI: A leadership shuffle is under way at Tips Music. Hari Nair, the company’s chief executive, will step down on April 30 as the music label begins the search for a successor.
The company said Girish Taurani, executive director, and Sushant Dalmia, chief financial officer, will jointly oversee operations during the transition while the board identifies a permanent replacement.
Nair joined Tips Music in 2023 and set about reshaping the veteran music label into a more digital, data-led enterprise. During his tenure, the company secured licensing and partnership deals with global platforms including Sony Music Publishing and TikTok, while renewing agreements with Warner Music Group.
Drawing on earlier experience in technology and entertainment, including a stint at ByteDance, Nair pushed the organisation towards a performance-driven culture. He built a brand partnerships division and introduced proprietary software systems aimed at strengthening digital distribution and data capabilities.
Kumar Taurani, chairman and managing director, credited Nair with embedding a data-led culture within the company and driving revenue growth in line with shareholder commitments.
In his resignation note, Nair said that after helping transition the label into a modern, digitally focused and process-driven organisation, the time had come to pursue his next leadership challenge.
The leadership change comes as the broader Tips Films group shows signs of financial stabilisation. In the third quarter of FY26 the company reported a net loss of Rs 2.86 crore, narrowing sharply from Rs 14.2 crore in the previous quarter. For the nine months ended December, losses stood at Rs 12.37 crore.
Yet revenue told a more volatile story. Income from operations slid to Rs 4 crore in Q3 FY26 from Rs 56 crore in the preceding quarter, taking total operating income to Rs 4.56 crore.
For a company built on a catalogue of more than 34,000 tracks and decades of Bollywood hits, the next chief will inherit both a digital engine and a volatile music market. The playlist may be familiar, but the next act at Tips Music is only just beginning.
