NEW DELHI :
With no quick finish in sight to pandemic-led restrictions on cinemas, Taapsee Pannu-starrer Looop Lapeta directed by Aakash Bhatia will premier on Netflix on 4 February, the platform confirmed. The movie has been prepared for launch for some time and has been collectively produced by Sony Footage Movies India, Ellipsis Leisure and Aayush Maheshwari. It’s the official Hindi remake of German movie Run Lola Run.
Pannu who made her Bollywood debut with David Dhawan’s comedy Chashme Buddoor (2013), noticed her profitable streak in Hindi cinema begin with Neeraj Pandey’s movie Child (2015), the place she performed an spy, courtroom drama Pink which additionally starred Amitabh Bachchan and Kirti Kulhari and Anubhav Sinha’s Mulk. Critically and commercially acclaimed movies similar to Sujoy Ghosh’s thriller thriller Badla, Sport Over, a bilingual directed by Ashwin Saravanan, Mission Mangal which was about India’s first interplanetary expedition and director Tushar Hiranandani’s biographical movie Saand Ki Aankh co-starring Bhumi Pednekar have adopted extra not too long ago. Pannu’s final theatrical launch was the 2020 drama Thappad. Thriller Haseen Dillruba had streamed on Netflix whereas sports activities drama Rashmi Rocket had premiered on ZEE5.
Final September, Sony Footage Movies India had introduced a brand new slate of 17 movies, together with Hindi, regional language and Hollywood titles that it stated it will carry to theatres over the following yr. These embody a comedy referred to as Tera Kya Hoga Beautiful, starring Ileana D’Cruz and Randeep Hooda, underwater thriller Dive, Saale Aashiq, a movie on honour killings, Nikamma starring Abhimanyu and Shilpa Shetty, household entertainer Aankh Micholi and Main, a movie primarily based on the lifetime of Main Sandeep Unnikrishnan who was martyred in the course of the 26/11 assaults.
Final month, Netflix introduced a revision in costs, reducing charges by 18-60% throughout plans, in an effort to woo wider audiences and deepen penetration. The transfer units the stage for larger competitors amongst overseas giants together with Disney+ Hotstar and Amazon Prime Video which have to this point, led when it comes to subscriber rely with all gamers now evidently specializing in quantity quite than worth.
Supply: Live Mint