A Censor Board copy of Director Abhishek Chaubey's Udta Punjab, starring Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt and Diljit Dosanjh, and produced by director Anurag Kashyap and Phantom Films, was leaked online two days ago, and the movie released nationwide today.All those who worked hard to make this movie, and then fought against the ruthless cuts suggested by the Central Board of Film Certification, pleaded with people to not download the movie from torrent sites.
Anurag Kashyap, in a Facebook post, said he has never downloaded a movie illegally from the internet. He confessed that he occasionally watched downloaded movies borrowed from friends but ensured that he found a way to pay for them later. You can read his post here:
Download Udta Punjab Movie Utorrent
The whole debate on piracy and downloading movies, music, software and games from the internet has one major argument - "we didn't download it ourselves, just borrowed it from a friend who did" - and there's a general misconception from where this stems. The misconception that "downloading" copyrighted content without authorisation of the rights holder is the crime and not consuming it.
In another instance in the Malayalam film industry, director/producer Aashiq Abu got a message in his Facebook inbox where a fan, who saw his latest production - Maheshinte Prathikaram - by downloading it from a Torrent website, wanted to pay for the movie.
The message said he had paid $20 dollars to watch another Malayalam movie - Leela - that was released online and that he was forced to download a copy of Maheshinte Prathikaram as it wasn't releasing in Canada where he lived and asked for Abu's bank account details. 2ff7e9595c
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