Is The Golden Age Of Indian Streaming Over? With Showrunner Sudip Sharma

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0:00 Highlights
0:18 Intro
1:29 Have we cracked the series format in India?
5:02 Sudip Sharma's favourite shows
7:00 The importance of writers and showrunners
13:36 Why are we only making crime dramas?
15:33 Netflix v/s Amazon Prime Video
19:25 Not having numbers/data to evaluate success of shows
23:57 The state of the streaming landscape as of now
28:30 The death of the mid budget shows
35:16 "The incomes are going to come down"
36:00 Shift back to the big screen?
44:07 Has the lives of the writers changed
47:05 Paatal Lok Season 2 details
48:33 One thing he would change about the streaming space.

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It’s…a pretty bleak time for the Indian streaming landscape, to put it lightly. I’ve spoken to writers who’ve said they’ve never seen the industry in such bad shape. You hear constant horror stories these days. Everything from platforms no longer commissioning shows, to shows in development or even about to start production which are either shelved or facing drastically reduced budgets. And these are big, well known filmmakers and writers. So how bad is it and is there any hope in sight?

To break it down, I spoke to one of the most significant storytelling voices we have. Sudip Sharma is the creator of Paatal Lok and Kohrra. He’s one of the few true blue showrunners we have a writer who’s stepped up and become captain of the ship of his shows. Sudip spoke to me about the crippling uncertainty of the current streaming landscape for writers, the caliber of stories on streaming, his experiences of working with Netflix vs Amazon Prime Video, his advice for young writers trying to weather the current storm and what advice what the future of longform storytelling looks like in India.

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