Amitabh Bachchan’s Marathi movie AB Aani CD was released when coronavirus slowly started spreading and the box office collection of the film got adversely affected. The movie is directed by Milind Lele and produced by Akshay Badrapurkar.
The story of the film is based on a retired art teacher played by actor Vikram Gokhale who gets shocked when he receives an invitation from Amitabh Bachchan for a function. The film will be re-released online by producers and it is going to become a treat for Big B fans during lockdown.
The producer said, “In the current circumstances, public safety and health is of paramount importance. It, therefore, made absolute sense to digitally debut this beautiful movie with our streaming partner Amazon Prime Video. In association with Prime Video, we are thrilled to release the film to mark Maharashtra Day and Labor Day as an ode to our all frontline heroes in the battle against COVID-19. It is our humble tribute to an enormous effort which will be remembered for a long time.”
He further added, “After facing a great amount of revenue loss, this time around the makers would not like to take any chances and they are in talks with a few insurance companies to understand that if all types of calamities/ pandemics are covered in it along with almost all unforeseen circumstances. Once we have clarity, the idea is to secure the film right from the inception, it’s high time we give importance to such important things and not to leave everything to destiny, as producers live on the fact that the film will get its full release everywhere be it theatres or any other platforms.”
AB Aani CD was released online on May 1, 2020.
