New Delhi, May 22 -- Comedy drama Bhool Chuk Maaf starring Rajkummar Rao and Wamiqa Gabbi may finally hit the theatres this week ahead of debuting on video streaming or over-the-top (OTT) platforms. But the public spat between the low-budget movie's production house and India's largest multiplex chain may have dealt a blow to Indian small-scale films, fear industry experts.

Maddock Films, which co-produced the movie along with Amazon MGM Studios, decided to pull it off from theatres a day before its scheduled release earlier this month. The production house said it would launch the movie on Amazon Prime Video instead because of "heightened security drills across the nation" as India began retaliatory attacks on Pakistan under 'Operation ...