Film producers and multiplexes at loggerheads over video streaming releases

MUMBAI: After film producers started talks with leading video streaming services to directly release their films on the OTT platforms, a war of words has broken out between the producers and the multiplexes who are miffed at producers skipping the ‘theatrical window’.

Theatrical window is the period between a film’s release in movie theaters and its release on other platforms.

The Producers Guild of India on Friday issued a statement, responding to film exhibitor Inox Leisure’s earlier statement in which the multiplex player has strongly criticised producers for skipping theatrical release during the lockdown, calling such producers as ‘fair-weather friends’.