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With the closure of theaters in the Covid situation, most Indian films, including Malayalam, are being released on OTT platforms. Malayalam movies, which used to be successful in theatres of full audience, are getting ready to be released on big and small OTT (Over The Top) platforms. Various local and major language movies are now popular on major OTT platforms such as Amazon Prime, Netflix, Sunnext, Hotstar, C5 and Jio Cinema.Such OTT platforms are gaining audiences for short films, parallel films and films made under small banners.     It goes without saying that the restrictions imposed by Covid paved the way for the launch of such OTT platforms. The popularity of these OTT platforms is increasing day by day. Also a lot of filmmakers and others came out in support and opposition to the OTT releases.We also saw Dhrishyam 2, Jai bhim and the Minnal Murali coming from south India and gaining pan indian reach just through OTT release.The best local movies will get Pan indian reach an

       Media is  always a good partner of the society. Media are the the one who mainly propagate freedom of expression in our world. But in present India, freedom of expression is disappearing.  Somewhere in the tide of time, we have lost the rights that Indian society achieved from  the golden light of independence of 1947. As a result, the Indian people have suffered a lot.  What is more worrying is that the government itself is complicit in this.  Here citizenship and civil liberties are denied.  .  After 2014, everything changed in India. So many religious thoughts got injected to the public. They literally devided the public by the way of religious expression . The central government and its henchmen are doing a disgraceful job to any Indian, from demonetisation to CAA all of their projects where Either stupid or nor aiming to harm religious minorities.     We have also witnessed people like Gouri Lankesh, who was an honest journalist, falling victim to their atrocities. It clear