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March 17, 2006

RANG DE BASANTI DISTRIBUTOR PIRATES OWN MOVIE

There's stupid and then there's stupid and the distributor of the huge, huge Bollywood film RANG DE BASANTI is definitely the second kind of stupid. When pirated DVDs of RDB started to float around the movie's producers, UTV, began to look into the matter and it didn't take them long to discover that the discs had originated in the offices of one of the distributors. Now they're talking about suing the pants off the distributor and, frankly, putting him in a dunce cap and parading him through Mumbai isn't entirely out of the question either.

March 17, 2006 at 05:23 AM in News | Permalink

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Can't remember who it was, but a HK distributor was accused of the exact same thing a couple of years ago. Their arguement was "better we make the money off the bootleg, than the bootleggers".

Posted by: Paul | Mar 17, 2006 7:40:21 AM

I remember this story, too, and I believe it was someone involved in BoB - either Wong Jing or Manfred Wong. But I could be wrong about that.

Posted by: Grady Hendrix | Mar 18, 2006 6:32:28 AM

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