HYDERABAD: Digital home entertainment brand Web Talkies has launched India’s first web-based feature film U Me Aur Ghar. The film revolves around a couple who is looking to buy a house in Mumbai. Along the way, they realise that a house hunt is more than just timely EMIs and romantic ideals. The film is available for viewing on YouTube, Hungama, and Web Talkies itself.
The web movie, which will release on February 10, features actors Omkar Kapoor of Pyar Ka Punchnama 2 fame, who is seen playing the role of Mittu aka Mithilesh, and Simran Kaur Mundi from the film Kis Kisko Pyar Karoon?, with her character known as Chitti aka Chitranshi Mazumdar. U Me Aur Ghar will be of a duration of 90 minutes.
Says Omkar Kapoor, whose first film Pyar ka Punchnama 2, “The fact that it’s India’s first web-based feature film makes the experience all the more exhilarating.”
Simran Kaur Mundi, the promising new actress on the block, said the movie was the first step towards bringing a change in entertainment consumption patterns of the entire country.
Web Talkies Chairman and Managing Director Virendra Shahaney says that the digital screen is the new platform for the visual medium. Soon it will take the space of silver screens and TV screens.
It is time India got its very own feature-length film, he says, while adding that the film caters to modern-day youth in big cities and the different insecurities and aspects of their lives.