{"id":314606,"date":"2025-11-29T15:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314606\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:47:07","slug":"pankaj-tripathi-says-ott-platforms-are-curbing-artistic-freedom-recalls-when-he-was-stopped-from-improvising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/314606\/","title":{"rendered":"Pankaj Tripathi says OTT platforms are curbing artistic freedom, recalls when he was stopped from improvising"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pankaj Tripathi<\/a> has raised a concern that has been floating around film sets for a while. He said the space that once promised freedom is now full of checks, approvals and second-guessing.<\/p>\n

\"Pankaj Pankaj Tripathi talked about how OTT space has shifted in just a few years. <\/p>\n

The comments came during a conversation with Bollywood Hungama<\/a>, where he spoke about how the OTT environment has shifted in just a few years.<\/p>\n

Why Pankaj Tripathi avoided big OTT platforms for his new project<\/p>\n

Tripathi said his team released Perfect Family, his first major production, on YouTube <\/a>purposely. For them, no major platform meant no long approval route. He pointed out that every large OTT service now brings \u201clayers of interference,\u201d from creative heads to legal reviews to production audits.<\/p>\n

According to him, picking YouTube was a way to tell a story without committees weighing in. \u201cThey decide who will oversee the script\u2026 then production value is questioned,\u201d he said. For him, the open platform gave the team a clearer route to finishing the series the way they planned it.<\/p>\n

Also read: John Abraham presents Oslo: A Tale Of Promise teaser at IFFI 2025, offers first look at animal-centred documentary<\/a><\/p>\n

Pankaj Tripathi on being stopped from improvisation<\/p>\n

Pankaj Tripathi is known for altering lines on the spot. He said he rarely does that anymore. The Mirzapur <\/a>actor recalled a day on set when he improvised a quick line, something he said would have slipped into a scene normally. But he was stopped right away. A creative head told him the legal team had to approve it first.<\/p>\n

He questioned why routine, harmless improvisation now requires clearance. In his view, the fear of controversy has created a system where choices are locked before an audience even has a chance to judge them. That, he said, has reshaped the workflow on many OTT-backed shoots.<\/p>\n

Also read: Kajol opens up about why arguments are important between parents and children: \u2018I look at it as compliment\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Copyright checks slowing down filming, says Pankaj Tripathi<\/p>\n

He also mentioned a smaller but telling incident. A scene required him to recite four lines of a poem. The crew insisted on holding the shot until permission was confirmed. Tripathi reached out to the poet\u2019s family himself and learned there was no copyright issue at all. The only request from them was a picture of him holding the poet\u2019s book.<\/p>\n

Tripathi was last seen in Metro… In Dino. He is set to appear next in Pati Patni Aur Woh Do as well as Gulkanda Tales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pankaj Tripathi has raised a concern that has been floating around film sets for a while. He said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,140105,140103,140104,140107,140102,140106],"class_list":{"0":"post-314606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-ott-censorship-concerns","13":"tag-ott-restrictions-india","14":"tag-pankaj-tripathi-improvisation","15":"tag-pankaj-tripathi-interview-bollywood-hungama","16":"tag-pankaj-tripathi-ott","17":"tag-perfect-family-youtube-release"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}