Shefali Shah and Huma S Qureshi recently went head-to-head in the latest instalment of the International Emmy-winning Netflix series Delhi Crime. The show’s new season leans into a tense cat-and-mouse chase between a female cop and a female human trafficker, a narrative energy that mainstream cinema hasn’t always embraced. When the two actors came together at the 10th edition of Expresso, they addressed a larger, urgent question: Is OTT truly taking creative risks, or is it slowly drifting back toward convention? Huma believes streamers are still championing stories that would otherwise struggle to find space. She said, “Whether it’s Netflix or any of the other platforms, they’re slowly rejecting this conventional wisdom that the theatrical business is only led by men, and therefore only films with male-centric subjects will get greenlit. However, today the OTT space has shown time and again that there is a ready audience, a captive audience, and it consists of both women and men. I don’t think shows like Delhi Crime or Maharani are only seen by women; they’re watched and …