The Social Thinker

OTT platforms have emerged as a key player in the entertainment industry and are giving tough competition to the cable operators especially, these have become the favourites among youth. But over the recent months, the OTT platforms have become the center of debate due to various scenes which have raised a question mark on the content that are being presented.   The controversy of ALTBalaji and Ekta Kapoor ALTBalaji is an Indian subscription based OTT platform which is owned by the subsidiary of Balaji Telefilms ltd whose founder is Ekta Kapoor. Now ALTBalaji among its other contents, is mostly popular for its XXX web series which is primarily an adult series and is filled with sex scenes in every episode with little or zero focus on storyline. In the recently released season of the series, the Indian Army uniform was involved in a sex scene in which it was disrespectfully torn, and this sparked controversy and nationwide protests.   The Patal Lok controversy ...

The year 2020 has been a year of disaster with so many bad news pouring in. The unfortunate death of the  Bollywood  hero  Sushant Singh Rajput  is definitely one of the worst among them. The sad demise of such an amazing talent and a young life has left everyone shattered and since then people have been taking a dig on  Nepotism  in  Bollywood . But is it just the film industry that is to be blamed?   The unfortunate death of Sushant Singh Rajput Sushant Singh Rajput  was not just another actor in Bollywood but also considered one of the finest alongsides  Ayushmann Khurrana  and  Rajkummar Rao , who without any Godfather started in  Bollywood  and have got a name with their great acting skills. He was found hanging himself in his apartment and is believed to have done suicide because of depression. Not only that  Sushant Singh Rajput  was a fine actor, but he was among the very few  Bollywood  ac...

It’s not been too long before that the On-demand video streaming platforms have been introduced, and various applications like Netflix , Amazon Prime Video , Hotstar and various other national and regional have already become the favorite destination of entertainment among the young generation. Recently with the lockdown in effect, the use of these applications has only increased. But has it become a replacement for the cable business? Is there any chance that people will stop watching television and watch the shows of these applications instead?   How the On-demand streaming services began in India? The first of its kind OTT was introduced in the year 2008 in India when Reliance launched BIGFlix . It is an on-demand movie service which allows users to watch and download their favorite movies. An OTT , over-the-top service uses the internet to provide content to its viewers instead of the traditional cable/broadcast provider. One of the major players of current market, ...

So we have come to an era where we are fighting for or against two different apps without much of a reason because some "social influencers" are taking on each other trying to prove why they are the best!    YouTube and TikTok YouTube and TikTok are one of the leading social media platforms where anyone can create videos, upload them on the applications and share it publicly. YouTube was created in the year 2005 and pre-installed in all the Android devices while TikTok is relatively newer application created in the year 2012. YouTube has an estimated of 2 billion users worldwide, while TikTok has an estimated 800 million users. Where this "war" of the two worlds started? The world was suffering from Corona and was concentrated over it when a YouTuber Elvish Yadav suddenly thought of bringing some new idea for his content and roasted TikTok vidoes and stated them as cringe, he further added that that these videos are very easy to make since they don't really hav...