{"id":26291,"date":"2021-01-03T02:41:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/02\/in-the-land-of-storytelling-netflix-and-amazon-prime-reshape-indias-creative-landscape"},"modified":"2021-01-03T02:41:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T17:41:33","slug":"in-the-land-of-storytelling-netflix-and-amazon-prime-reshape-indias-creative-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26291","title":{"rendered":"In the \u2018land of storytelling\u2019, Netflix and Amazon Prime reshape India\u2019s creative landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The streaming giants are making bold TV shows but the threat of censorship looms large<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Emmy awards, one of the biggest nights in global television, was particularly historic for India. It was the second year in a row that several Indian television shows were nominated, and the first time an Indian series won.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/21\/delhi-netflix-drama-india-jyoti-singh\"> <\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/21\/delhi-netflix-drama-india-jyoti-singh\">Delhi Crime<\/a><\/em>, an eight-part Netflix drama exploring a brutal rape case in 2012, took home the award for the best international series.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, all the Indian nominations were for shows created by Netflix or Amazon Prime. Over the past two years, streaming has radically shifted India\u2019s domestic creative landscape \u2013 and created a new global audience for Indian series and films. According to Amazon Prime, 20% of viewers of their original Indian content are now from outside India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/02\/in-the-land-of-storytelling-netflix-and-amazon-prime-reshape-indias-creative-landscape\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The streaming giants are making bold TV shows but the threat of censorship looms largeThis year\u2019s Emmy awards, one of the biggest nights in global television, was particularly historic for India. It was the second year in a row that several Indian tele&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,458,71,69,62,238,509,61,520,519,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-censorship","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-media","category-netflix","category-south-and-central-asia","category-television","category-television-radio","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26292,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26291\/revisions\/26292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}