Overview
- At its South Unbound event in Chennai, the platform introduced 25 new South titles and committed ₹4,000 crore over five years to South India's creative economy.
- Bigg Boss South hosts Mohanlal, Akkineni Nagarjuna and Vijay Sethupathi appeared together to promote their Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil editions.
- Mohanlal insisted the reality series is not scripted, calling it emotionally honest television.
- He said he has completed seven seasons of Bigg Boss Malayalam and claimed the show has been signed for three more years, a statement not independently confirmed by JioHotstar.
- Nagarjuna congratulated Mohanlal on receiving the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, and coverage noted the absence of Kannada host Kichcha Sudeep.