Delhi-based lawyer Ishika Goon and her flatmates hunkered down at their apartment in the Indian capital, Delhi, to watch a new Bollywood film.
In normal times, Ms Goon and her friends would have flocked to the neighbourhood theatre for their Friday night cinema fix.
But the lockdown to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus has meant that cinemas are closed and most movie-lovers are watching their favourite films at home.
So when the news arrived that the star-studded Bollywood summer release Gulabo Sitabo would bypass cinemas and premiere on streaming giant Amazon Prime Video, there was a ripple of excitement among film lovers.
"This doesn't give you the same rush as watching a movie's Friday release in the cinema. But we are now reconciled to the fact that we may not catch a movie in the cinemas in the near future," says Ms Goon.More films are scheduled to be released by streaming companies over the coming months, as the prospects of cinemas opening in India in the near future look dim. They include Shakuntala Devi, a Hindi biopic of a famous Indian female mathematician played by award-winning actor Vidya Balan.
