Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur has voiced his frustration over the editing of his 1994 film Bandit Queen in the OTT space, saying someone has cut it beyond recognition. The filmmaker lamented that the OTT version had been cut without his consent.
It all started when Shekhar took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to applaud the Netflix miniseries Adolescence. He wrote, “I’m not the first one to say this but #Adolescence from #Netflix redefines what truly great series can achieve. Its defies the regular 3 act structure of cause and effect and plunges you deeply into the minds of the characters and allows you to reflect upon yourself ..It’s next level story telling. Watch it.”
Reacting to it, filmmaker Sudhir Mishra shared that such bold storytelling would never be permitted in India, writing, “Nobody will let us do something like that . One should do it as an independent film. Something of our own which is wanders, then stops, digs and goes where the smell takes us.”