The success rate of web medium and the audiences’ acceptance has attracted some big players to the space, making many wonder how it will bode for those who are predominantly OTT stars. Abhishek Banerjee, however, feels that no one should feel threatened as yet.

“What’s going to happen now is that the bar is going to rise. We see a huge change in the making of shows, we see the level of acting, the level of direction, the level of screenplay change drastically and for good. This is the time for actors and everybody to push and keep exploring,” shares the actor, who has been part of hit web series Paatal Lok and Mirzapur.

What will keep actors hold their place in the OTT space, despite the advent of Bollywood actors, is their consistency, feels Banerjee.

“On OTT, the actor is a star not due to his personality but the characters he has played. The audiences love your characters. So that’s an actor’s journey to choose such characters and be in the radar of audiences. The stardom is different from films, it is not about an actor’s personality,” explains the 35-year-old.

Banerjee attributes his success story to the digital medium. “Of course, it is huge. What happened is TV was always a medium and so were theatres. Wahan ke actors set hain, wahan ke stars set hain and audience is used to certain actors in those mediums. Then suddenly OTT comes, and boom! You have not seen these actors anywhere and there are so many who you have not heard of, and then they give a kicka** performance. The audiences’ mind is blown as they start discovering new actors. That is how we all got discovered,” he concludes.