Sachin Kundalkar’s Cobalt Blue, starring Prateik Babbar and Neelay Mehendale, dropped on Netflix last week without the usual aggressive publicity or marketing. In a strange turn of events, the film — an adaptation of Kundalkar’s 2006 Marathi novel of the same name — does not include the director’s name on the credit roll or anywhere in the release material. On digging further, it has been found out that Kundalkar was apparently asked to step away from the project in March by Netflix India in the wake of sexual abuse allegations against him.

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