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Amitabh Bachchan’s debut Marathi film to premiere straight on OTT

After ruling Hindi cinema for close to four decades, megastar Amitabh Bachchan made his Marathi film debut with the recently released film AB Aani CD (2020) wherein he played himself on screen. But no sooner did the film enter cinemas last month than theatre owners had to discontinue all its shows in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic followed by a 21-day lockdown.

Initially, the makers of AB Aani CD were thinking of re-releasing the film in theatres once the situation returned to normal. However, now the producers have decided to premiere the movie directly on OTT.


Sharing more details about the same, producer Akshay Bardapurkar says, “Things did not go our way, and safety comes first. Hence, we will not re-release the film as planned earlier but will look at a date when Amazon deems it fit to put it on their platform.”

The film will now stream directly on the OTT platform in a couple of days from now to make the most of the viewership on the digital platform being high due to the fact that the majority of people are staying home in the lockdown period.

Not just AB Aani CD, several films of Amitabh Bachchan have suffered due to the Coronavirus pandemic. His movies which were scheduled to be released soon have all been pushed back. Some of them include Chehre with writer-director Rumi Jaffery, Jhund with director Nagraj Manjule and Gulabo Sitabo with Shoojit Sarkar. His much-anticipated film Brahmastra, co-starring Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt, was already confirmed to being pushed to the end of the year a few weeks ago.

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