Disney-Hotstar has taken serious note of the poor response to Akshay Kumar’s latest release Bachchan Pandey and to the trailer of his next film the historical Prithviraj.
Considering the rapidly-shrinking star power of Bollywood’s A-listers, Disney+Hotstar is now planning to convert Akshay Kumar underproduction starrer Mission Cinderella into a webseries.
The shocking changeover plan has apparently not gone down well with Akshay who is loath to make a backdoor entry into the digital webseries platform .However close friends say Akshay has no control over the format that Disney+Hotstar chooses to adopt for the content that they’ve shot with him.
“He may not like what’s being done to Mission Cinderella. But he has no control over its final shape and format,” a filmmaker-friend of the actor reveals.
In Disney+Hotstar’s defence, the uncertainty that surrounds theatre releases post-Covid, puts a huge question-mark on all the forthcoming feature films, most of which are better off on the digital platform, though conversion of feature films to the webseries format is not yet in vogue. Mission Cinderella, a remake of the 2015 Tamil serial-killer thriller Ratsasan, may start a new trend.