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The Bollywood Piracy

filmmakingnet2wp_mhbj4h18 years ago2 years ago09 mins

The phrase “Bollywood” sounds phony. For those fresh to this spurious phrase, it is the pseudo name gloss to the Mumbai Hindi film industry; a simulated pirated version of the American movie industry – Hollywood. Piracy in Mumbai film industry starts from here itself. Piracy in the Mumbai film industry is three-fold. Firstly, it is…

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The New Film Distribution: What You See is What You Get

filmmakingnet2wp_mhbj4h19 years ago2 years ago015 mins

At a time when international cinema and DVD revenues are declining and TV audiences are dwindling, why would a young company spend time signing up distribution rights for all sorts of independent content from all over the world? The answer might elude, confuse or scare many of the traditional media giants, but this is exactly…

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The Death of Piracy

filmmakingnet2wp_mhbj4h19 years ago2 years ago018 mins

Piracy – no, not the eye-patch type, but the copyright infringement variety. Product piracy has been with us since the industrial revolution, but today it is most common in the distribution of music, films and television shows. Compared to the film and TV industries, those music bods have been there, done that, bought the t-shirt…

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Making the Cheapest Film on Earth

filmmakingnet2wp_mhbj4h19 years ago2 years ago07 mins

Remember a story about a small town Malegaon, 285 kilometres from Mumbai (India). In this particular part of the world, Shekh Nasir a young enterprising fellow courts news by making movie remakes of Bollywood blockbusters. His films commercially screened in the small town video parlours created a hysterical fever among the public elevating his films…

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