Behind Bollywood’s happy ever afters

Growing platform: Streaming services have grown in India; The second season of hit series 'Sacred Games' was reportedly backed by an investment of US$14mil from Netflix.

THIRTY-YEAR-OLD Tanya Purohit looks like a leading lady: slim, beautiful and fair-skinned. But what makes her special is her intelligence, warmth and wry, comedienne-like wit.

Having started out on a Delhi-based TV shopping channel as a promoter and then moving on to a Mumbai sports network, the Uttarakhand-born beauty is working her way ever deeper into Bollywood’s huge M&E (media and entertainment) industry.