After Netflix pulled the plug on Dev Patel's Monkey Man, it seems that the movie might not even launch in India. The truth that the movie has already began streaming on OTT internationally means extra issues.
Evidently Dev Patel's Monkey Manwherein the birthday boy performs a bloodthirsty avatar of Lord Hanumanhas misplaced the battle to get a launch in India.
After being postponed earlier this month, Monkey Man It was scheduled to premiere on April 26. However the censor board made it abundantly clear that the violent and bloodthirsty revenge drama, dripping with blood and saffron strains, had no place within the vary of curiosity of Indian moviegoers.
The worst blow for Monkey ManThe Indian launch got here on April 23 when the movie began streaming on numerous OTT platforms, thus eliminating all probabilities of a delayed launch in India.
Sources say producers made a hasty resolution to push Monkey Man to the streaming platform as a result of the movie failed to draw sufficient audiences in film theaters world wide, regardless of rave critiques.
Monkey Man It might have attracted like-minded sections of Western opinion who relish any try to denigrate the saffron authorities in India. In India, any try to introduce an anti-establishment mission runs right into a agency impediment.