Excel Entertainment Issues A Clarification In Viewer’s Interest On Collaboration Over Amazon Originals

Gossip mills were buzzing with the rumours that the budgets for Amazon Originals will be slashed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Delhi: To put rest to all the speculations doing the rounds and clear the air, Excel Entertainment has issued a clarification on their collaboration over Amazon originals. The film production company Excel Entertainment is co-owned by Farhan Akhtar and film producer Ritesh Sidhwani. Excel Entertainment has previously developed three web series. All of them were made for Amazon Prime Video - Inside Edge, Mirzapur and Made in Heaven, charting wide success all across. Excel Entertainment took to their Twitter handle and shared a clarification in viewer’s interest. The statement read, “There has been a great deal of speculation doing the rounds sine the weekend about budget cuts on Amazon originals produced by Excel media. We would like to clarify that these assumptions are not true. They have been great partners and we continue to collaborate with them on multiple shows”. Speculations were rife that Amazon Prime has slashed the budgets for several shows that were commissioned months ago. It was said that the OTT platform is working on re-assigning the budgets due to the Coronavirus pandemic, which has severely affected the entertainment industry. Watch this space for more updates!