OTT has liberated Bollywood from the "Single Screen" mindset. On a streaming platform, a film doesn't need an item song every 20 minutes to keep the audience awake. It can breathe. This has led to the discovery of the "Mid-Budget Film."

It is important to distinguish these B-grade titles from mainstream Malayalam and Tamil films with similar names: Oru Maravathoor Kanavu (1998)

A cultural analysis of how the mainstream Malayalam film industry evolved away from this phase.