Published: Wednesday, March 17, 2021, 15:23 [IST] When the theatre business came to a standstill owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, many filmmakers turned their attention towards OTT platforms to release their movies. Many big ticket films like Akshay Kumar's Laxmmi, Sanjay Dutt-Alia Bhatt's Sadak 2, Varun Dhawan-Sara Ali Khan's Coolie No.1 premiered directly on OTT platforms last year. John Abraham-Emraan Hashmi's upcoming gangster drama Mumbai Saga, was also supposed to have a direct-to-web release. However, when John heard about there being a conversation regarding releasing Mumbai Saga on Amazon Prime, he had a chat with Bhushan Kumar and director Sanjay Gupta, as he believed