Since India is facing lockdown and the theatres are unlikely to open any soon, Jyotika’s upcoming film Ponmagal Vandhaal will have a direct online release soon.
The movie’s streaming rights are sold to Amazon Prime for an amount closer to nine crores.
While OTT is considered as the future, this is certainly a big move for a reasonably big project.
The theatre owners are already against this move from Suriya. This might put his Soorarai Pottru in trouble.
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