India, Oct. 14 -- Netflix India's ambitious creature feature, tentatively titled Ramree, starring Siddhant Chaturvedi, has reportedly been shelved due to budget problems. The film, backed by Ajay Devgn, aimed to fill the gap in India's horror genre with a large-scale creature story. However, the streaming platform has now pulled the plug.

A source told Mid-Day, "Work on the film had been going on for over a year. Given the subject and period setting, it was an expensive project. For an OTT release, this would have set new standards in scale and imagination, but budget limits caught up with it. Even though the platform heads were excited about the story, the financial risk was too high. So, they decided not to move forward with it."

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