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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups
A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
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Why Forbes India is doing a South celebrity special
This fortnight's three-cover celeb special is as much a celebration of the stars that glitter on Southern screens as it is a salutation of the OTT trend that has gripped much of India.
South Celebrity Special 2021
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Inside Forbes India's first-ever South celebrity special edition
This time in our annual edition focusing on the movies and its superstars, instead of focussing squarely on Bollywood, we have narrowed the spotlight down to four industries in South India—Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada—for a couple of reasons. Read on, and subscribe to Forbes India to get early access to our inaugural South celebrity special issue
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Nayanthara, the unconventional superstar
Nayanthara's career enjoys unparalleled longevity and superstardom across Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam cinema. As an actor and producer who is now also dipping her toes into entrepreneurship, she is setting the stage for a far longer innings
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Dulquer Salmaan: Here comes the son
Salmaan has stepped out of the shadows of his superstar father Mammootty and is foraying into a pan-India journey
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If you think you know it all, you stop growing: Mahesh Babu
The actor on the secret of his longevity, adapting to new technologies, love for Telugu cinema, his Bollywood foray, and why he's indebted to his fans
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Meet the most influential social media stars of South cinema
Stars from Telugu cinema dominate the list of Top 30 most influential actors on Instagram across the four South Indian film industries, finds this data analysed for Forbes India by Social Samosa and Qoruz
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OTT Revolution: A boon for filmmakers
Streaming platforms offer a diverse range of storytelling options to directors in the South, newfound stardom to lesser-known actors and spoil the audience for choice as they consume content in different languages
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Regina Cassandra: The dependable
Moving on from always playing the girl-next-door, the South cinema actor has found her mojo, and success, with more complex roles
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Culture of creativity helps stars take risks: Anjali Menon
Malayalam cinema is content-driven and ahead of its times. Its collaborative approach and responsiveness to realistic scenarios set this industry apart, the filmmaker and writer from Malayalam film industry writes
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Sudha Kongara: Shattering prejudices in Tamil cinema
With her recent success in making bankable commercial cinema on a big scale, director Sudha Kongara has shattered conventional prejudices against women behind the camera in the Tamil film industry
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Yash: The chosen 'hero'
Yash's intuition told him he would be a superstar one day. As one of Kannada cinema's most popular actors today, his story of perseverance and fame is one for the ages
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Beyond language barriers: Meet the social media influencers of the South
Social media is booming with content in regional languages. Meet some South Indian influencers who have taken the internet by storm and earned massive following with their non-Hindi-English videos
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Streaming Now: Southern content's moment in the sun
Breaking language barriers, content from the South is having a moment in the sun on OTT platforms. And the platforms are further building their regional rosters to ensure subscribers remain engaged even beyond the pandemic
Forbes Life
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Sunny Leone takes on the Forbes India rapid fire
Sunny Leone is not only an actor but also a successful entrepreneur. Here, she takes on some rapid-fire questions from Forbes India
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I'm a realistic investor: Sunny Leone
Sunny Leone on rolling out her non-fungible tokens, being a 'control freak' as an entrepreneur and making a profit out of doing things that she loves
Cross Border
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He wanted make his revolutionary code free. But Ali Ghodsi is now a billionaire with a $28 billion startup
Ali Ghodsi was happily researching AI at Berkeley when he helped invent a revolutionary bit of code—and he wanted to give it away for free. But few would take it unless he charged for it. Now his startup is worth $28 billion, and the career academic is a billionaire with a reputation as one of the best CEOs in the Valley
