Veteran filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who is best known for breathing life into the story of Phoolan Devi through his film Bandit Queen expressed his dismay after a streaming giant edited it sans consent. Shekhar took to X and while praising the Netflix series Adolescence spoke about the hurdles for freedom of expression even on OTT. 

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen cut on OTT

Shekhar wrote on X, “I wonder if OTT platforms would let me make Bandit Queen the way I made it years ago. The Bandit Queen on Amazon Prime is unrecognisable from my film. Someone has cut it beyond recognition. And yet it carries my name as Director. And no one asked me! Are we lesser beings than Western Directors? Would they have the guts to cut a Chris Nolan film without his permission?”