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Shemaroo gets innovative on social media with ‘Retro Talkies’
MUMBAI: In a bid to keep old movies relevant in today’s fast paced digital world, Shemaroo Entertainment has launched an innovative initiative called ‘Shemaroo Retro Talkies’ on social media.
Shemaroo Retro Talkies is an innovative story-telling format for Bollywood films via which the company will capture evergreen movies in a few posts. The company will make this available on its Facebook page, Twitter handle and YouTube channel. Under this, a movie will be re-released every fortnight and each movie will have its own way of story-telling that may be through short videos, GIFs or sketches.
The first movie to re-release under this initiative is the Sunny Deol starrer Ghayal. The entire movie has been captured in five tweets / posts.
Shemaroo Entertainment director Jai Maroo said, “With Shemaroo Retro Talkies, we want users to re-live classic Bollywood movies and also connect to the youth who’ve not watched these movies before. We will be narrating the entire story of the film but in a format that people like to consume these days like short videos, GIFs and sketches. The format will give out the entire story of the film in less than five minutes and help them decide if they want to watch the full film.”
Ghayal in the new format is available on the links below:
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Meta plans 8,000 layoffs in new AI-led restructuring wave
First phase from May 20 may cut 10 per cent workforce amid AI pivot.
MUMBAI: At Meta, the future may be artificial but the cuts are very real. The social media giant is reportedly preparing a fresh round of layoffs, with an initial wave expected to impact around 8,000 employees as it doubles down on its artificial intelligence ambitions. According to a Reuters report, the first phase of job cuts is slated to begin on May 20, targeting roughly 10 per cent of Meta’s global workforce. With nearly 79,000 employees on its rolls as of December 31, the move marks one of the company’s most significant workforce reductions in recent years.
And this may only be the beginning. Sources indicate that additional layoffs are being planned for the second half of the year, although the scale and timing remain fluid, likely to be shaped by how Meta’s AI capabilities evolve in the coming months. Earlier reports had suggested that total cuts in 2026 could reach 20 per cent or more of its workforce.
The restructuring comes as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg continues to steer the company towards an AI-first operating model, committing hundreds of billions of dollars to the transition. Internally, this shift is already visible: teams within Reality Labs have been reorganised, engineers have been moved into a newly formed Applied AI unit, and a Meta Small Business division has been created to align with broader structural changes.
The trend is hardly isolated. Across the tech sector, companies are trimming headcount while investing aggressively in automation. Amazon, for instance, has reportedly cut around 30,000 corporate roles nearly 10 per cent of its white-collar workforce citing efficiency gains driven by AI. Data from Layoffs.fyi shows over 73,000 tech employees have already lost jobs this year, compared with 153,000 in all of 2024.
For Meta, the move echoes its earlier “year of efficiency” in 2022–23, when about 21,000 roles were eliminated amid slowing growth and market pressures. This time, however, the backdrop is different. The company is financially stronger, generating over $200 billion in revenue and $60 billion in profit last year, with shares up 3.68 per cent year-to-date though still below last summer’s peak.
That contrast underlines the shift underway. These layoffs are less about survival and more about reinvention. As Meta restructures itself around AI from autonomous coding agents to advanced machine learning systems, the question is no longer whether the company will change, but how many roles will be left unchanged when it does.
