NEW DELHI: Going to theatres may seem like a distant dream for most movie-goers in India now but video streaming services are leaving no stone unturned to make sure home entertainment matches theatrical standards and penetrates as deep as it can into the heartland, in terms of both scale and local sensibilities.
Netflix’s big action original released last week, Extraction starring Chris Hemsworth may not have extracted the best reviews but is no less than any Hollywood big-screen spectacle with its Hindi, Tamil and Telugu versions accompanying the English original.
Earlier in the lockdown, Amazon Prime Video had released Oscar-winning South Korean black comedy Parasite dubbed in Hindi and also has an entire catalogue of films that it has