Kamal Ghorui
Ranveer Singh‘s ‘Dhurandhar’ made its OTT debut this weekend, after scorring a strong Rs 1000 crore net haul at the domestic box office. The film directed by Aditya Dhar, premiered on Netflix at midnight on Friday, prompting fans to flock to the streaming site to watch the film agian in the comfort of their homes. Helping it extend its reach, the Hindi film released online with Tamil and Telugu dubbed versions.Following its release, the OTT version of the film had fans giving the makers and the streaming platform a mouthfull. While some called out the muted cuss words for the ‘A’ rated film, others slammed the makers for the film’s mysterious 9-minute shorter runtime. Others even took to social media to share their disappointment over the film’s colour grading, which seemed like a downgrade when compared to the theatrical print.
‘Dhurandhar’ gets streaming upgrade
However, in a surprising turnaround, those tuning in to watch the film on Sunday, noted that Netflix has allegedly ‘updated’ a new version of the film. Taking to Twitter fans celebrated that the makers seemed to have upgraded the film to a higher bitrate and improved the colour grading.
Fans hail higher bitrate for ‘Dhurandhar’
A viral tweet noted, “Netflix has released a new #Dhurandhar version with 12.56 mbps of bitrate (AV1 Codec). The initial version was 1.79 mbps. This is 6 times more Data for better quality. I haven’t seen flix giving this high of a bitrate for AV1 codec EVER.”Another added that the film had, “Much better colour grading.”
