PiracyWith a team of techies who are movie buffs, Massbunk Antipiracy has worked on over 190 movies and boasts of a piracy eradication rate of 95%.Saradha UWunderbar Films/ Facebook Tamil cinema has been trying to tackle piracy since 2011 when the infamous piracy site TamilRockers was founded. It was after consistent efforts taken by anti-piracy organisations and production houses towards stripping down the pirates’ ad revenue, by teaming up with advertising agencies and meticulously tracking their domains and social media handles, that TamilRockers became inactive in October 2020. Over the years, producers, filmmakers, industry trackers, fans and many others from the industry have joined forces to fight piracy. “Piracy is seen as a mistake and taken lightly but it should be treated as a crime. It can affect the crores of rupees spent on making big-budget movies,” Sharath Kumar, the founder and managing director of Massbunk Antipiracy, one of the leading anti-piracy organisations in Tamil cinema,...
- 3/4/2022
- by SaradhaU
- The News Minute
PiracyIn the last three years, the Tamil film industry has declared war on movie piracy. But like a multi-headed hydra, the problem keeps coming back, and in different forms.Anjana ShekarImage for RepresentationIn November 2017, when Tamil movie Ippadai Vellum, starring Udhayanidhi Stalin and Manjima Mohan hit the theatres, a team of eight techies working out of Anna Nagar in Chennai, got busy. Sharath Kumar, former Operations Head of Tamil Film Producers Anti-Piracy cell, recalls that a few hours before the release, they started scouring through social media, messaging platforms and scores of websites to see if the film had been leaked online. Within hours, as expected, TamilRockers — the most notorious movie piracy website — had uploaded a camera quality print of the film. Sharath and his team had their work cut out. They used takedown tools to block the prints, appealed to various domain registries to block as many sites, found...
- 8/27/2020
- by Anjana
- The News Minute
Film CommentaryUnless one understands the family dynamics in the Jd(S), it's difficult to grasp the political context of the film.Theja Ram Spoilers ahead Speculation is rife that Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy's son Nikhil Gowda will make his political debut in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the Mandya constituency. And like many others before him, Nikhil seems to believe that cinema is the perfect launchpad for a career in politics. In his latest release Seetharama Kalyana, directed by A Harsha and produced by his mother Anitha Kumaraswamy, Nikhil leaves no stones unturned to build his image as a saviour and leader of the masses, especially Karnataka's farmers. The film has ample references to the hero worshiping his father, turning it into a tiring exercise for the viewers. Riding on farmer sentiment The hero, Aarya's (Nikhil) entry in the film is marked by an unremarkable action sequence. A poor...
- 1/29/2019
- by Theja
- The News Minute
SandalwoodNikhil Gowda, son of Karnataka Cm HD Kumaraswamy, is rumoured to make his political debut this year, and the film goes overboard in praising him and his father.Aravind ShwethaChoreographer-turned-director A Harsha has patented himself as a commercial director, and time and again, with every actor he has collaborated, he has used the same formula. A decade after making his debut, with seven films in his kitty, the filmmaker has joined hands with actor Nikhil Gowda, son of Karnataka’s Chief Minister Kumaraswamy, for Seetharama Kalyana. The trailer was neatly packaged with a love story, a lot of action, comedy and family sentiment. The film is an extension of the trailer, which is predictable in parts. Arya (Nikhil Kumar), son of Shankar (Sharath Kumar), a big name in the construction business, is a happy-go-lucky youth. He meets Geetha (Rachita Ram), who is from a village, at a wedding in Ooty.
- 1/25/2019
- by Sowmya
- The News Minute
Last year, in what maybe termed as a ‘provocative speech’, the renowned Tamil actor Sathyaraj (who played the iconic ‘Kattappa’s character in Baahubali) gave a speech about the Tamil farmers seeking water from Karnataka. The event was also attended by the southern superstars like Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan and Sharath Kumar. Sathyaraj’s speech snowballed into aRead More
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- 4/21/2017
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
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