While more than 100 million people around the world use online streaming services to watch Hollywood movies and American TV shows, for Bollywood fans, gaining easy access to Indian-made films has been difficult -- until now.
鈥淲ith Netflix, they offer a very limited portfolio,鈥� Bollywood producer Lina Dhingra told 麻豆传媒 from Brampton, Ont. on Thursday. 鈥淭hey go for the big studio pictures. They don鈥檛 take all the independent pictures.鈥�
is hoping to change that.
The new Bollywood-focused video streaming service is already offering more than 2,000 titles in Hindi and eight other Indian languages.
鈥淲e are now bringing films which are telling their stories and we're sharing these stories with general Canadians,鈥� International Film Festival of South Asia Toronto organizer Sunny Gill told 麻豆传媒.
Hoping to tap into the more than 30 million members of the Indian diaspora, BigFlix has plans to expand too, with Canada, the U.S. and Australia on its immediate horizon.
For those who have been working in India鈥檚 film industry for years, there is hope that the new video streaming service will ensure that their country鈥檚 blockbusters get a broader audience.
With a report from CTV鈥檚 Peter Akman
