{"id":183728,"date":"2025-08-29T03:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183728\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:04:09","slug":"akhanda-2-faces-ott-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183728\/","title":{"rendered":"Akhanda 2 Faces OTT Dilemma!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Akhanda2_41756429104.jpg\" align=\"absmiddle\" alt=\"Akhanda 2 Faces OTT Dilemma!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The much-anticipated sequel, Akhanda 2: Thaandavam, has officially been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>While the makers initially attributed the delay to extended post-production work \u2014 particularly visual effects and background score \u2014 there\u2019s also another crucial factor at play: the OTT deal.<\/p>\n<p>The first part of &#8216;Akhanda&#8217; turned out to be a massive theatrical success and later performed strongly on Disney+ Hotstar.<\/p>\n<p>Banking on that, the team entered talks with JioCinema (after its takeover of Hotstar). However, the platform reportedly showed little interest in paying steep prices for Telugu big-ticket films.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, global players like Netflix and Prime Video have adopted a cautious approach after overspending in the past, making them reluctant to shell out huge amounts for regional blockbusters.<\/p>\n<p>With no lucrative OTT agreement in place yet, the makers of Akhanda 2 are holding back the release until they strike a deal that matches expectations.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fourth film in the super hit combination of Nandamuri Balakrishna and Boyapati Sreenu. The producers lavishly spent money on this due to the hype.<\/p>\n<p>But recovering money is more important. For this, securing a lucrative OTT deal is a must.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The much-anticipated sequel, Akhanda 2: Thaandavam, has officially been postponed. While the makers initially attributed the delay to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[103233,171,53,103232,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-183728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-akhanda-2","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-ott","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115109839777939404","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}