The film scripted history by becoming the first film from India to win the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in May this year.

On Monday evening, Mehta shared a review of the film by US news outlet The New Yorker and said that “no OTT platform” has bought the film yet.

And from what I hear a film that no OTT platform is buying. The harsh reality of independent filmmaking in India. This is not a country for the spectacular All We Imagine As Light. I HOPE I’M PROVED WRONG, said the filmmaker.

Distributed by Rana Daggubati’s Spirit Media, the film has so far released theatrically in Kerala and will make its debut in the rest of the country on November 22.

Responding to Mehta’s post, Spirit Media said in due course, the film will be available on “screens even closer to home”.

“We are so grateful for all the support from the creative community! #AllWeImagineAsLight opens in theaters near you on Friday, November 22. And, in time, on screens even closer to home,” the banner read.

All We Imagine as Light, a Malayalam-Hindi feature, is about Prabha, a nurse, who receives an unexpected gift from her long-estranged husband that throws her life into disarray. Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a private place in the big city to be alone with her boyfriend.

One day, the two nurses go on a trip to a beach town with their friend Parvati, where the mystical forest becomes a space for their dreams to manifest, according to the official plot.

Starring Kani Kusruti, Divya Prabha and Chhaya Kadam, All We Imagine As Light is an official Indo-French co-production between France’s petit chaos and India’s Chalk & Cheese and Another Birth. PTI