He was among the first crop of Indian actors to jump on to the OTT bandwagon, way back when it hadn’t even entered the Indian market. And even today, Purab Kohli continues to work on the medium, with his next going to be Out Of Love’s second season.

As the digital medium grows, he recalls, “I did a show for a major streaming platform in the USA in 2014. It was so early in the day that I didn’t even see it when it released... We didn’t even have the internet speeds to stream YouTube videos, let alone have a buffet of platforms to choose from.”

The 42-year-old, who starred in the show Sense8, tells us that the popularity of the medium hit him when people abroad recognised him. “Six months later, I was in a restaurant in London and people were asking me for photos. I imagined them to be Bollywood fans until someone asked if I was Rajan Rasal from Sense8. These platforms are the forefront of entertainment and some of them are also pushing the envelope on creativity,” says Kohli, who will be seen next in the film Blind, alongside Sonam K Ahuja.

The fear of censorship looms large over digital content in India today, and self governance seems to have been adopted by many platforms. Ask him his take on it, and Kohli says adults are wise enough to make their own decisions, “Nothing should be censored from adults. If a person is legally considered to be an adult after a certain age, they should be allowed to choose what they want to watch, experience or feel. No one is forcing them to watch the content, they have a choice to do so. By censoring content, you are treating adults like children.”