Mumbai,(IANS)| Pankaj Tripathi has excelled through films and web series with several award-winning projects. With the advent of various OTT platforms, the space for artists is also changing. There are more opportunities today for any artist who wishes to work in the audio visual field. This has naturally started a debate about it hitting the theaters due to fierce competition from OTT.Pankaj takes a different view of both the mediums. When asked what he thinks about cinema and OTT, he gives a candid answer which can set off any debate going on for the two mediums.
They say that as an actor, I don’t see much difference between the medium of cinema and OTT. Cinema provides community viewing experience. 300 people collectively go through the same set of emotions. They laugh, cry and empathize with the characters.He further says that when Butrealt Brecht (a German theater practitioner, playwright and poet) performed his plays, he used to place his actors in 5 different places among the audience. He asked them to laugh first, their laughter then spread throughout the auditorium making everyone laugh. That is the essence of theatre.
Drawing a clear line between cinema and OTT, the actor says that OTT is a single things watching experience. Which you see on your laptop and phone screen. Community experience and living in isolation are both essential. Like life, movies too are a mixture of both experiences.
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