India, Dec. 12 -- With every technological advancement over the years, including VHS, DVDs, cable television, torrents, YouTube, and finally streaming, or OTT as we call it in India, the obituary of big screen cinema has been written and rewritten. Driven by nostalgia, celebrity power, festival season excitement, and a distinctively Indian understanding that movies are more of a cultural ritual than pure entertainment, theatres have fought their way back each time. However, a much more existential question for India has been raised by Netflix's bid for acquisition of Warner Bros and Paramount's aggressive counterbid: what happens to the big screen when the largest anti-theatrical platform in the world takes over as the guardian of Hollywo...