MUMBAI: Masterchef Vikas Khanna, who is now a feature-film director, feels the OTT platform in India is blooming.
“When I’m in-between projects I have time to watch movies. What I’ve seen on the OTT platform has really impressed me. Lots of serials from India are so good. Recently, I watched the series Scam 1992. It is just brilliant. It’s a world-class show. I’ve been a fan of Hansal Mehta’s work for years. Delhi Crime deserves every award. I was so proud of Scam and Delhi Crime. People like Hansal and Apurva Asrani are putting Indian cinema on an international platform.”, Vikas expressed.
Speaking about his beautiful directorial debut The Last Color, Vikas says, “I had written a short story called Colorless in 2011 about a widow in Vrindavan, who yearns to play Holi. It was a dark intense story based on my experiences in Vrindavan while shooting for Holi. It stuck in my mind because had seen widows close to me. It really moved me.”.
The short story became a novel and then a film. “I wove a novel around the characters of the widow and a little girl who’s a tightrope walker. After that everything began to fall in
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