Don’t think the boys can match the girls at the moment, not by a long shot. Okay, let me explain this cryptic comment. We lack male actors who can really kill those complex roles—the young guns, I mean, not the older actors. I don’t mean Bajpayee, Bachchan, Naseer, Saif, who’ve been doing it for awhile now. It’s the young boys—Rajkummar Rao and Vicky Kaushal are exceptions—who are unable to grace the smaller outreaches of OTT with aplomb. They prefer to pose, preen, pack a punch, build those packs and pecks, the conditioning, the fear of being typecast, “oh he’s not hero material”, “he’s a serious, arty actor”, the need to command those high prices—or are they just unable to plough those great emotional or histrionic depths required?

In stark contrast, the ladies are killing it. OTT platforms have shown up the differences between the young men and women.