India, Aug. 12 -- The Independence Day weekend has been taken up by two non-Kannada biggies - War 2 and Coolie. There should have been a Kannada film - 45 - also in the mix, but debutant director Arjun Janya's film faced VFX delays, forcing the makers to push it ahead indefinitely. A new release date is yet to be announced. Among the two films in theatres, though, only one, Coolie, has a Kannada dubbed version. Shows/screen count distribution is, obviously, skewed in favour of the Tamil original and Telugu versions.

If the buzz on social media is true, OTT is where Kannada audiences may have something for the long weekend. Two films that had clashed at the box office are headed for yet another clash on OTT, apparently.

A new Kannada ori...