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Includes original titles from India; American e-commerce giant will make service available in India at Rs 499 yearly, for now, compared to Netflix's starting price of Rs 500 a month American e-commerce giant   Amazon Prime   announced the launch of its Prime Video service in India, after a year of preparation. It will be available at Rs 499 a year as an introductory offer, and includes a month's free trial. The content library has a range of Hollywood and other international movies and TV shows. With this, Amazon Prime has announced the launch of nine Indian original shows, making it the largest Indian original line-up on an OTT (over-therop, meaning delivery of media service over the internet without a multi system operator deciding content) platform. "After the US and Japan, India is a focus market in terms of content creation. While preparing for the launch, we realised that while there is an appetite for international library and original content (already ava...

MNS files FIR against AIB's Tanmay Bhat for video mocking Sachin Tendulkar, Lata Mangeshkar A  video  from stand-up comic Tanmay Bhat, who is also co-founder of comic group All India Bakchod (AIB), in which he mimics venerated Bollywood playback singer  Lata Mangeshkar  and cricket legend  Sachin Tendulkar  has evoked a sharp reaction from the film fraternity as well as the political class. On Monday, the Raj Thackeray-led  MNS  filed an  FIR  against Bhat and pledged to ban his shows in Mumbai. MNS Chitrapat Sena' president Ameya Khopkar on Monday morning filed the police report in Shivaji Part and has demanded that the video uploaded by Bhatt be removed immediately. The All India Bakchod (AIB) comedian reportedly posted the video on May 26 on Facebook titled "Sachin vs Lata Civil War" and made jokes about both, along with the disclaimer: "I make such nonsense on my Snapchat." Using Snapchat’s face swap filter, Bhat first ...