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Originally Posted by Yami
It looks like there won't be a physical option for the year's best film thus far, RRR
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That’s just the state of Indian cinema nowadays, the focus is on TV and streaming after a film completes its theatrical run. In the US, you can only find the Hindi dub on Netflix, with the other languages (including the original Telugu) only on ZEE5. From what I can gather the UK has one of the best markets for Indian cinema, with multiple new cinema releases every week, though a smaller number are wide releases and most don’t last past a week or a weekend. But the days of labels like Eros releasing BDs and DVDs is long gone. Even in India many titles only have a DVD release and no BDs.
Rajamouli’s film
Bāhubali also doesn’t have any great options for a disc - a German Blu-ray with German and Telugu tracks, a Japanese Blu-ray with Japanese and Telugu tracks, but no English subtitles. Only the Hindi dub of
Bāhubali has English subtitles.
Germany has had some labels like Rapid Eye Movies releasing some Indian cinema, but unless you know Hindi or German they’re not English friendly.
This year I’ve been making an effort to catch more Indian films in the cinema, knowing they’ll be confined to streaming and never get a disc so it feels more important not to miss them - so far I’ve seen
RRR, Jana Gana Mana, Gangubai Kathiawadi, Hridayam, Runway 34, Bheemla Nayak. I’m not expecting any of them to get discs even though most of them are really good.