India, March 3 -- In what could be seen as the first major impact of India's new guidelines for OTT platforms, Amazon Prime Video, on Tuesday (March 2), issued a rare apology to its Indian users for hurting religious sentiments with its original political drama series 'Tandav'. Some part of the nine-part mini-series has raised eyebrows of the rightwing organisations, including the ruling political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

In the message titled "Amazon Prime Video Apologizes", the US-headquartered video streaming group said that it "deeply regrets that views considered certain scenes to be objectionable" and the platform has either edited those scenes or removed them from the series altogether.

Amazon Prime Video in its apolog...