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Nitin Kothari joins OMTV as chief technical officer
Mumbai: Sanatan storytelling platform OMTV has appointed Nitin Kothari as CTO. He will head the technology part and will aim to make OMTV a media tech company by introducing AR/VR for live darshan shows.
He has been working in the technology space for over 30 years, with extensive experience in design, development, and implementation of complex business software solutions. His expertise lies in business analysis in the finance, manufacturing, and accounting domains. He is an all-rounder, from tech-entrepreneur to product leader and an accomplished tech architect across the complete product suite – mobile, web, and back-end systems. Passionate about design thinking and user interface (UI), he has built and managed web and mobile-based products across various domains for organisations in India, the UK and the US.
He said, “My constant endeavour is to apply business sense in developing applications where the effort would lead to large impacts on business processes and results. I am happy to be part of this organisation which is doing some good stuff and putting technology into this genre, which is considered to be very old school. I get more excited when I am thrown a challenge to execute something new on the platform. I hope with tech availability I will be able to match the vision of the founders.”
OMTV founder and MD Nitin Jai Shukla said, “Over the period of Nitin’s professional expertise, he has proven skills in managing teams to work in sync with the corporate set parameters and motivating them to achieve business and individual goals. In his professional career, he has exhibited excellence in developing, piloting, and implementing new business processes. Nitin has a sound ability to identify risks / issues that could affect the project and put in place the required effective solutions. A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, energetic, self-motivated, and capable of thinking and generating new design solutions and ideas. With a soft demeanour, he is very assertive. A team is only happy when we work with like-minded people, and their passion for technology only helps us to experiment and come up with new ideas. I’m happy to have a person who is like-minded and his passion for technology will help us to make the user experience extraordinary.”
OMTV aims to compete with platforms from the OTT industry. For that, they want to infuse a lot of technology into the whole ecosystem. Spirituality is seen as something very primitive and we need to be tech ready. OMTV has recently closed a pre-seed funding round and is now raising its seed funding to become a revenue-making company. OMTV is also planning to introduce AI in the UGC (user generated content) space and a lot of tech features on the app.
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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.
