Shreyas Talpade on his OTT app Nine Rasa: Want families to watch plays together

Shreyas Talpade regales the audience with perfect comic timing on screen, and his brand of entertainment has always reached out to the entire family -- evident in the "Golmaal" films, "Housefull2", "Om Shanti Om" or "Apna Sapna Money Money". Shreyas, who ventured into producing plays a while back with Nine Rasa, his OTT platform for theatre, says he is focussed on bringing clean family content to the unique theatre streaming platform.

"I want families to sit together on weekends and watch plays on Nine Rasa. I don't want them to cringe when they watch the content. Plays have always been a family kind of content. We have tried to maintain that. We are trying to keep the sanctity intact. We cannot have any obscene content or cuss words in these theatrical performances. I want families to just relax and enjoy the content His roles on the big screen reflect his philosophy when it comes to choosing content. "Personally, I am not in favour of cuss words. Even in films, I only use them when I am really asked by my director. Otherwise, I try and avoid it. For Nina Rasa, we tell the scriptwriters to ideally avoid such words. If they really want to use it, we tell them to use a generic word. If it's really required then we come out with the disclaimer that it is meant for 18-plus audience," he said.

Presently Shreyas' OTT platform has 12 plays streaming including "Pashmina", "Aarush Marush", "Saheb Ji Darling" and "Paul" among Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati plays. In the future, the app will introduce other languages like Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam plays. About three plays are uploaded every month along with the play's audio podcast.