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With its streaming service approaching saturation in the United States, Netflix is bringing the playbook that up-ended Hollywood to Bollywood, where India offers its most promising opportunity.
Although the coronavirus aided Netflix’s 2020 subscription growth, its performance against unprecedented competition in the past year showed that the novel ‘streaming wars’ will not be fought domestically but in expansions abroad.
Netflix’s investors are stoked about the streaming giant’s recent price hikes. But the jury is still out on its subscribers.
Sherry Dorestan, 34, was excited to send her five-year-old daughter to kindergarten.
Netflix will be creating and streaming its first film in Tamil—the language commonly used in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, as well as in Sri Lanka and Singapore—the tech giant announced Thursday.
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