Pahlaj Nihalani responds to film leak blame

Illegal downloads are one of the film industry’s most serious and common problems. After Indra Kumar’s ‘Great Grand Masti’, leaked online before it’s release date, followed by the Salman Khan starer ‘Sultan'(2016), there was much speculation as to who was to blame, for the films having got in the wrong hands in the first place.��Many have been pointing fingers at the Central Board of Certification.

When questioned on the matter,��Asian Age reported�� Pahlaj Nihalani, CBFC chief stating, “It is easy to pin the blame on the censor board since some of these leaked films online have ��censor certificate�۪ written on them. But just because these films are watermarked to the censor, we don�۪t become culpable.”

“There are many stages where the films could be leaked. Rather than try to hush up the crime, production houses should carry out a thorough public investigation and check the leakage before it kills the film business,” he went on to add.

Known as the ‘Dark Web’, in which certain websites are able to upload films for the public to view, without including an IP address. Filmmakers have yet to resort to investigating the people behind the operations. According to the news, apparently they have instead decided to keep a low profile with the matter to ensure it doesn’t attract more people.

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