“All Characters (including me) in this article are fictitious. Resembling to any living or dead is only coincidental”
Early Morning time: 9:00 AM, first day first show of Movie ‘Hum Saap Ke Bil mein Rehte hain’ (I live in Serpent’s burrow). Mr. Ramalingam Ramesh Muthupati was rushing to make sure that he does not miss the first show. I was waiting till the evening for the review of the movie to come from the dedicated movie buffs. I rang up Mr Ramalingam in the evening to get his comments on the same.
Feedback on the movie was good and also according to Ram the movie was an excellent mixture of comedy and romance!!! Impressive: till I heard the following from him “but the picture quality was not that great”. Surprise!! And then I realized why the picture quality of the FIRST DAY FIRST HOME SHOW was not perfect.
I indeed made sure that my laptop is completely piracy free but I see a point here. It’s a dual movie shooting (mostly) , the camera man in the sets shoots for the first time during the make and the last and final time the First Day First Show people shoots from the Multiplex’s Movie Screen.
I was in argument with myself why should we not discourage pirated movie cd? You are forced to watch all the songs (even if you don’t like to) in the screens where as those CD gives you a flexibility to fast forward the movie, so you save time; by approximately half an hour. You save transport cost, expensive multiplex ticket cost and above all the cost of the special (WARNING: Special in terms of cost only) snacks you buy in those multiplexes. So you save close to 1000 bucks in any big Indian cities per movie per person. Now if we consider time is money you save 30 minutes that means, for average multiplex goers 30 minutes means another 200 Rs.
Adding all those you save 1200 bucksJ. Now you buy a DVD for 30 Rs, you get 4 movies in it which would have cost you a handsome 1200 X 4 = 4800, a hopping savings rite? This was savings per person. If you are watching a movie with your family you just multiply 4800 with number of family members watching and you would get a rough estimate. One of friend also raised an interesting fact when he said, by buying Pirated CD he is contributing towards a parallel industry as big as 2 billion! OHH..
I am not able to decide what was right and what am I loosing by going with Rama’s ploy. I wanted to know what our friends in other part of world has to say about this and then I discovered the below facts.
(Source : http://www.aic.gov.au/ )
This clearly indicates that there are more Rams there on the other sides of the border!!!! (We are nowhere close to them)
All those who think there is something unethical: OK I know I know….. it. :)
This clearly indicates that there are more Rams there on the other sides of the border!!!! (We are nowhere close to them)
All those who think there is something unethical: OK I know I know….. it. :)
5 comments:
:D
Actually in this way we are securing the lives of the people who are not rich like the dealers, casts & crews involved directly with the movie industry; Thereby providing employment opportunity to every section of the society. So it can be inferred that we are contributing towards the benefit of society by doing social work :)
Hats off to such dedicated social workers.
Infact government should encourage such social works :D
Although I am against Piracy but I could smell something different here ......
A business unleashing new possibilities ;)
people seems to have discovered promising futures in fake marketing!!!!
:) he he he ...
Thas was a gud onee
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