Filmmaker Subhash Ghai is the showman of Bollywood who has changed the trajectory of Hindi cinema with films like Karma, Hero, Ram Lakhan, Khalnayak and many more. He is now all set to give the digital world a shot with his debut OTT film titled 36 Farmhouse. He is the writer and producer of the film. Speaking on his experience the Taal director said, “It’s great if one can reach out to viewers across the world, who have exposure to great content. ’36 Farmhouse’ is sure to echo the sentiments of the Indian diaspora worldwide because it has family issues today at its core and it also explores the dichotomy of the rich and the poor through an interesting lens.”

Sharing his decision to foray into digital space Ghai said, “Change is the name of life – so is for the storytellers that have to re-learn to write for the new medium with the best of all our experience of writing drama stories for big screen for four decades.” Stating comparisons between films on big screen and OTT the Yaadein director said, “The grammar of writing a screenplay and making a film for OTT is different than a grammar for big screens. There is a very little scope of pauses and stay and using the virtues of long shots on screen and also in narrative on home/mobile screen. So it is a tougher task for us to make an interesting film with repeat value for OTT viewers which they can enjoy watching 20 times in due course compared to what happens in cinema.” 

He adds, “I am re-learning to write and produce interesting stuff for home screen too along with big screen cinema – Please wish me the best.” 36 Farmhouse is directed by Ram Ramesh Sharma with dialogues by Sharad Tripathi. The film will stream on ZEE5.