Hansal Mehta recently brought attention to the struggles Payal Kapadia's highly praised film All We Imagine As Light is facing in securing a digital release. On Monday night, he underscored the issue by sharing a New Yorker review of the film.

Filmmaker Hansal Mehta has claimed that Payal Kapadia's Cannes winner "All We Imagine As Light" is facing difficulty in securing a platform for its digital debut. The film scripted history by becoming the first film from India to win the Grand Prix award at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year.

Kapadia’s first fully narrative film, “All We Imagine as Light,” begins more like a documentary, surveying Mumbai, particularly at night, before gently gravitating toward three women, all of them hospital workers, who are juggling their workaday realities, and those of India’s stratified society, with their own aspirations.

Hansal Mehta highlights the challenges faced by 'All We Imagine As Light', a Cannes-winning film, in securing an OTT platform for digital release. Despite being an award-winning Indo-French co-production,

The auteur took the opportunity to showcase her love for Pier Paolo Pasolini and Aki Kaurismäki and explain why Chris Marker's "Sans Soleil" is a film everyone should see.

Mehta shared a review of the film by American news outlet The New Yorker, saying that he has heard that no OTT platform has bought the film as of yet. Know the full story below.

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