Netflix Nearing Deal for Indian Sex Comedy 'Brahman Naman': Report

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By Gadgets 360 Staff | Updated: 28 January 2016 17:52 IST
Popular American on-demand video streaming service Netflix is nearing a deal for worldwide streaming rights to Indian sex comedy Brahman Naman.

The deal for the film will be in seven-figure range, reports Variety.com.

Directed by independent filmmaker Qaushiq Mukherjee, who is better known as Q, the film centres on a group of sex-starved young men who are members of their college quiz team in the 1980s India.

The cast includes Shashank Arora, Tanmay Dhanania, Chaitanya Varad, and Vaiswath Shankar.

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Brahman Naman premiered on Sunday in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016.

In related news, Indonesia said Thursday a decision by the country's biggest telecoms provider to block Netflix could be reversed if the global video-streaming giant obeyed local laws, particularly on "porn" and "radicalism".

The decision Wednesday to bar access to Netflix came just weeks after the California-based firm announced it was expanding its Internet TV services to 130 new markets, including Indonesia.

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State-owned Telekomunikasi Indonesia, or Telkom, said Netflix had not met existing regulations such as obtaining a local business licence and opening an in-country office, complaints echoed by officials.

Concerns that films provided by Netflix could evade scrutiny by Indonesia's Film Censorship Board also appear to have been a driving force behind the ban.

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All films screened in Indonesia are approved first by the Film Censorship Board, with offending sections removed.

Written with agency inputs

 

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