Lots to love about Singapore, which rules December because of the Singapore Media Festival and the ATF programme market. Chicken rice. Mee siam. Char kway teow. The white tiger at the zoo. Spago. Media, um, maybe. Depends on the day and who has the mic.

Key territories: Pay-TV channel & content providers (total revenue growth % CAGR)

Smita Singh was doing a screenwriting course at the Film and Technical Institute of India (FTII) in Pune. The script written at the end of the course is a writer’s calling card, and Chaitanya Hegde, partner at India-based talent agency Tulsea, came calling.

Leena Yadav’s Rajma Chawal is the story of a middle-aged man who uses social media to connect with his uncommunicative son. It is among Netflix’s newest slate of eight films and one original series out of India.

Emerging markets streaming platform iflix has just done two telco deals in Southeast Asia that could make a life/death difference.

Subhash Chandra’s Essel Group wants to offload up to half of its holding– and possibly more – in entertainment company Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL) “in view of the changing global media landscape” and “to accelerate efforts to stay ahead of fast changing trends”.