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| The
fight against PIRACY |
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Behindwoods Visitor Raghuram M.K |
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When
we hear the constant cry of
people involved in Tamil Film
Industry against piracy it’s
really heart breaking. It’s
not fair and can never be justified
of releasing a movie even before
its final touch up as it happened
recently. It’s like snatching
a baby from a mother’s
womb even before the delivery
of a baby. I think the law has
to be enforced strictly with
regard to this to save an industry
which is the livelihood of hundreds
and thousands of people who
work in the field.
I think we as a community need
to work with them and start
to acknowledge the huge amount
of effort and hardship that
goes into production of each
film big or small. I think first
the members of the film industry
has to work among themselves.
Unless they leave their doors
unlocked no thief is going to
come to steel it. People should
try to work out why a person
involved in the production of
a film or projection of the
film has to allow someone to
steel it. Either he is unaware
of what he is doing or he is
frustrated with the difference
in status of people working
in the same unit. If members
of unit irrespective of what
he does get the same respect
and treatment as others then
probably he would feel as a
member of the family rather
than turning into a traitor.
So where should we start to
stop this piracy? Should we
not start it at our house before
asking others to stop it. I
think if we start to accept
and acknowledge the work of
others then other would acknowledge
ours. So the film industry should
first stop steeling things like
songs, stories and other aspects
of a film production form anyone
else. I am not saying it’s
wrong to make a film or record
a song based on other films
or songs but accept it with
open heart and if necessary
speak to the concerned person
who first
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did the work if you could use it in your
movie and give due acknowledgement of their
work.
We shouldn’t just steel stories and
music from foreign people. We should learn
to accept it as well as they do. For example
when a famous singer from Uzbekistan sang
a song from Alai Paayudhe she first puts
it in her video as original music composed
by A.R.Rahman and then she sings her version.
What I mean to emphasize is it’s good
to bring international films to Tamil platform
but in your title card mention it as inspired
from the original movie which was originally
done by the name of that director. No one
is going to blame you for it and it’s
not wrong. This is not new people have translated
good work in various languages to their
own mother tongue so his people could also
enjoy it say for example Thirukkural has
been translated into various language but
no one would blame that instead it was encouraged
since people all over the world would know
about our famous Thiruvalluvar. Similarly
when you accept and acknowledge works of
international movies people in Tamilnadu
would be able to know about them and also
appreciate your work and hardship to bring
a movie of different language to them.
I think if we start to do this first then
we would set an example for the community
to prevent piracy and hope we could eradicate
it form our society.
Mr Raghuram M.K.
raghuram_mk@yahoo.co.uk
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