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Taapsee and Tahir's 'Loop Lapeta' to release on OTT soon
Taapsee Pannu and Tahir Raj Bhasin starrer 'Looop Lapeta', is all set to release on OTT. Netflix will be the platform for this comedy thriller Loop Lapeta. The movie is a remake of 1998 German experimental thriller 'Run Lola Run". The 'thappad' actress took to her social media and shared a motion poster of Loop Lapeta with a caption, "Time is ticking, and it is time to run!".
Nominations Announced For MyGlamm Filmfare OTT Awards 2021
While Hansal Mehta's Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story bagged a whopping 14 nominations across categories, fans of Mirzapur and The Family Man ensured that the second season of both thrillers earned 13 and 12 nominations, respectively. The awards promise to be a close contest as stellar actors such as Manoj Bajpayee, Pratik Gandhi, Pankaj Tripathi, Samantha, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Shweta Tripathy are in the race to win the Best Actor (male and female, respectively) in the Web Original series category.
R. Madhavan, Babil Khan to star in YRF's maiden OTT project 'The Railway Men'
As a salute to the people who saved scores of lives, YRF announced this project on the same day that this tragedy had struck Bhopal 37 years back. YRF's streaming content production business will be called YRF Entertainment and it will churn out five marquee projects to begin with in its first year. Akshaye Widhani, Senior Vice President of Yash Raj Films said: "The Bhopal Gas Tragedy is the world's worst industrial disaster that has impacted scores of people since the tragedy struck the city 37 years ago.
Balakrishna's talk show sets new OTT record
An official statement from Aha Video said Balakrishna's talk show 'Unstoppable With NBK' has seen over 4 million video plays.As per the reports, this number is said to be the highest tally for any talk show in the Telugu OTT space. The curtain riser episode of the talk show had Manchu Mohan Babu as the guest, who was accompanied by Manchu Vishnu Vardhan Babu and Manchu Lakshmi Prasanna.
OTT platforms to make debut at 52nd edition of IFFI: Official
The festival will screen 148 films from 73 countries in the festival's international section, while the 12 world premieres, 26 Asia premieres will also be screened at the event, festival director Chaitanya Prasad said. "For the first time in the history of IFFI, we have major OTT platforms like Netflix, Amazon, Zee 5 and Viacom participating in the festival, with releases, masterclasses and more," Prasad said.
Pankaj Tripathi weighs in on OTT-cinema debate
Pankaj, who will be soon seen in the madcap con-comedy 'Bunty Aur Babli 2' from the house of Yash Raj Films, harbours a different view about the two mediums. When asked what he thinks about the medium of cinemas and OTT, he gives a categorical reply that can trump any debate around the two mediums.
Yash Raj Films to dish out Rs 100 crore for its first OTT venture
A source said: "YRF is making its intent clear about their digital venture by shelling out 100 crore for their project. They want to produce the best content and they want to be the leaders while doing that. "They want to create a paradigm shift for content in India and this first project will be a testimony to their belief to make clutter-breaking projects."
Yash Raj Films to enter OTT space with Rs 500 cr war chest
A source informed: "Aditya Chopra wants to contribute towards raising the bar of digital content production in India. He wants to match global standards of vision and storytelling with stories that are rooted in India. These scripts are being homegrown in YRF as we speak. This could be the moment that reshapes the OTT space forever. YRF has huge plans and they will roll out their strategy soon. Wait for some of the biggest announcements ever seen in the digital content space."
Richa Chadha: OTT is the present and the future
A lot was said about the medium of OTT in its nascent stage. Majority of the people in the content industry were not confident about the scale of OTT and whether screening films on digital platforms would prove to be a profitable method. But, the past few years have seen a meteoric rise of the medium akin to the rise of television in the '90s.
Will try to bring one of the main actors of web series 'Fauda' to India: Israeli envoy
"Happy & surprised to see how popular 'Fauda' is in India. Hopefully, we will be able to bring one of the main actors of the show here. We are still working on it," he said on the first media briefing between Israel and India to discuss bilateral relations. The web series was released online in 2015 and had gained popularity worldwide with a massive viewership. The name 'Fauda' means chaos in Arabic.
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