New Delhi, April 2 -- Films released in theatres that then make their way to streaming services are sometimes seeing cuts and modifications, much to the chagrin of the makers who considered these as democratic media allowing free expression.

Director Shekhar Kapur recently posted on X that a censored version of his 1994 film Bandit Queen is playing on Prime Video that neither he nor the producers were aware of. However, industry experts point out that many of these movies are sold to OTT platforms by third-party distributors who have anyway edited the film after acquiring their rights from producers.

Meanwhile, streaming services that often incorporate clauses allowing edits when acquiring content increasingly want to play safe since we...