Have you heard? Pipped for an OTT release

Updated On: 16 March, 2023 08:19 AM IST | Mumbai | The Hitlist Team

It has been over four months since Ishaan Khatter’s next, Pippa, was deferred from its initial release date of December 2, 2022. With no update on a new date, it is rumoured that the period drama, which is based on the Battle of Garibpur during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, may release directly on an OTT platform

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Pipped for an OTT release

It has been over four months since Ishaan Khatter’s next, Pippa, was deferred from its initial release date of December 2, 2022. With no update on a new date, it is rumoured that the period drama, which is based on the Battle of Garibpur during the 1971 Indo-Pak war, may release directly on an OTT platform. An industry source says the development has taken place in the wake of Ronnie Screwvala’s legal battle with four national multiplex chains for anti-competitive collusion, with respect to undue imposition of Virtual Print Fee (VPF). Ronnie, who is producing Pippa with Siddharth Roy Kapur, had petitioned the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against multiplexes making producers and distributors pay Rs 20,000 for every film screened at every property as VPF, calling it a draconian discriminatory charge that multiplex chains are forcibly imposing. While the CCI back then had noted that Ronnie couldn’t prove the allegations, our trade source maintains that since this dispute, the dealings between the producer and the multiplex chains haven’t been hunky-dory. “Considering that they have not spared cost or effort in making a quality product in Pippa, makers are looking to finalise a good deal with a streaming platform soon,” sums up the source.

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