It’s 31st December – officially New year’s eve and I’m here to record the 2021 news highlights. I had called the year 2020 as Gritty 2020 and hoped that 2021 would be kinder..however as the year winds down still under the shadow of Covid 19 with the new Omicron variant threatening to run amok well into 2022 and beyond.. I’m sitting in a rain battered Chennai recording the highlights of the year that’s just ended.. 7. Over the Top Popularity of OTT : The year 2021 saw the rise and rise of OTT. Cinemas in the metros not able to attract audiences due to covid restrictions. And elsewhere discerning audiences kept away from mainstream cinema for lack of interesting content. Most of them turned to Over The Top platforms that streamed movies 24/7 right into their drawing rooms. Chennai and rest of India woke up to refreshing content of Malayalam cinema and marvelled at the amazing acting talent of actors like Fahad Fazil, Nimisha Vijayan and many more. Jai Bhim a Tamil movie about a tri...