Streaming platforms bring festival favourites to home screens

NEW DELHI: Amazon Prime Video has picked up critically acclaimed festival favourite The Illegal, building on the trend of streaming services expanding content libraries by turning to films that have long been shunned by cinemas in India or found limited screenings.

Written and directed by Danish Renzu, the film, starring Suraj Sharma and Shweta Tripathi, had premiered at various film festivals like the Mumbai International Film Festival, Vancouver South Asian Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, among others.

Netflix had showcased Eeb Allay Ooo, a Hindi film that premiered at the 2019 Pingyao International Film Festival and was selected for the Berlin International Film Festival last year.