Coffee with BS: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra on storytelling, India's OTT scene

With his latest him, Toofan, launched on OTT, Mehra says that the platform has given filmmakers and audiences a diverse range of viewing options but some movies are simply made for the big screen

Art often imitates life, they say. As I wait in my Zoom waiting room, a mug of green tea steaming up my screen, I muse that today’s guest can attest that the opposite is true, too. Life can also follow art, or in this case, cinema. A month after Bollywood film Rang De Basanti was released in 2006, a spontaneous public outcry against the acquittal of all nine accused in the Jessica Lal murder case occurred on India Gate in Delhi. Recreating a scene eerily similar to one in Rang De Basanti, thousands of citizens sat in a candlelight vigil,