India, Nov. 29 -- Pankaj Tripathi has raised a concern that has been floating around film sets for a while. He said the space that once promised freedom is now full of checks, approvals and second-guessing.

The comments came during a conversation with Bollywood Hungama, where he spoke about how the OTT environment has shifted in just a few years.

Tripathi said his team released Perfect Family, his first major production, on YouTube purposely. For them, no major platform meant no long approval route. He pointed out that every large OTT service now brings "layers of interference," from creative heads to legal reviews to production audits.

According to him, picking YouTube was a way to tell a story without committees weighing in. "They de...