The mega-merger will enable Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries to create the country’s largest media and entertainment business.
When the U.S. streaming giants, Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video, entered India seven years ago, they promised to shake up one of the world’s most important entertainment markets, a film-obsessed nation with more than 1 billion people and a homegrown moviemaking industry with fans worldwide. In the last four years, however, a chill has swept through the streaming industry in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party tightened its grip on the country’s political discourse and the American technology platforms that host it. Today, a culture of self-censorship pervades the streaming industry in Indiaetflix, manifesting in ways both dramatic and subtle.
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