Video streaming giants, Bollywood worried about backlash in India

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Controversy in India over Amazon’s political drama Tandav has put Bollywood and global video-streaming giants on edge, prompting a closer scrutiny of scripts for possible offence to religious sentiments in a key growth market.
 
Companies like Amazon’s Prime Video and Netflix are inspecting planned shows and scripts, with some even deleting scenes that could be controversial, five Bollywood directors and producers, and two industry sources said.
 
This comes as Amazon Prime Video has become embroiled in legal cases and police complaints alleging Tandav depicts Hindu gods and goddesses in a derogatory manner and offends religious beliefs. Tandav, a