Actor Salman Khan’s ‘Radhe- Your Most Wanted Bhai’ is set to release on Eid 2021 in ‘multi-format, which means the forthcoming big-budget saga is set to release theatrically as scheduled on May 13 and also simultaneously stream on the OTT platform in a pay-per-view format.

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The decision came after the release of many films was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic that has hit the film industry across the globe including Bollywood.

While the shooting of many films were stalled, some filmmakers across the world turned this into another opportunity and instead of sitting at home ideally decided to make some interesting films and series from their homes over the highly popular video chat app.

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Let’s take a look at such films, series that were released.

Host: The film directed by Rob Savage was shot completely during the Lockdown in 2020 and was released in the US through an OTT platform. The film received a perfect 100 percent rating on the recommendations and film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. PictureWorks has acquired the rights release HOST, in India across 4 languages with an English release happening today including a subsequent release later in May in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu on Amazon Prime Video.

Malcolm and Marie: ‘Malcolm & Marie’ is an American romantic drama film shot in the black and white format. The film is written, produced, and directed by Sam Levinson. The film stars Zendaya and John David Washington also produced it. It’s a love-hate story of a writer-director played by Washington and his girlfriend played by Zendaya. It is said to be Hollywood’s first feature that was entirely shot during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

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All Rise: All Rise is a legal drama TV Series aired on CBS with an episode crafted after actors and production staffers began isolating themselves in their homes. It is the first network TV drama to shot a new virtual episode about the COVID-19 pandemic. The story revolves around on lead character, Simone Missick’s Judge Lola Carmichael, to conduct a trial over video chat – with attorneys, court staff, and even the judge herself appearing from their homes in a proceeding live-streamed publicly.

Social Distance: Social Distance is an American Tv anthology series created by Hilary Weisman Graham and Jenji Kohan that premiered on Netflix in October 2020. The entire series was shot remotely during the quarantine period. It’s an eight-part series, set during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, centers around how families, friends, and couples were forced to cope with the effects of quarantine as well as during the Black Lives movement. Each episode narrates a different story and highlights “the power of the human spirit in the face of uncertainty and isolation,” and how technology turned out to be the last resort to stay connected during this difficult time across the globe.

Songbird: ‘Songbird’ coming from the house of Michael Bay, Adam Goodman, Andrew Sugerman, and Eben Davidson is a 2020 American dystopian science fiction thriller film based on the coronavirus pandemic. It is said to be the first film to be shot entirely after the shutdown was imposed between July and August in Los Angeles. The film is directed by Adam Mason and stars KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser, and Demi Moore.

The Gone Game: The Gone Game is a psychological thriller web series directed by Nikhil Bhat, starring Sanjay Kapoor, Shweta Tripathi, Arjun Mathur, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Rukhsar Rehaman, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya. The series was shot entirely within the confines of all the actors’ homes and directed remotely, during the COVID-19 pandemic in India last year.

Wakaalat from Home: Wakaalat from Home is a comedy or errors series that was filmed during the initial months of lockdown. The series includes four main characters Sumeet Vyas, Kubbra Sait, Nidhi Gupta, and Gopal Datt. The unusual premise covers a divorce proceeding over a Zoom meeting call during the lockdown. The show is directed by Rohan Sippy and it was aired on Amazon Prime Video in September 2020.