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When we think of film piracy, we usually picture a victim with a very fat wallet. A Bollywood blockbuster drops on a Friday. By midnight, a grainy, camcorded version hits a torrent site and an HD print in just a few days. Millions of people watch it on their phones for free. The studio’s opening weekend numbers dip, a billionaire producer fumes in a Mumbai boardroom, and highly paid actors miss out on a fraction of their profit-sharing checks. This is the conventional narrative of piracy. It is neat, predictable, and entirely incomplete. The true cost of film piracy doesn’t…

Kichcha Sudeep racked up an age old controversy through one of his interviews. He said “Hindi is no more a National Language; Movies like KGF…

While walking through the isles of a city library in England, I found myself staring at a name that sounded very familiar. I guess living…

I hope you have already read the first part. You could have a look at that here: The Kashmir Files – Part 1. I had described…

[Disclaimer: The article is not a review of the film, it is a description of the author’s experience and what the author actually felt during…