'What's Your Raashee stolen
Pirating of films and film music has been around for quite a while now. The industry loses a colossal amount of money every year due to piracy. Filmmakers have taken various measures to stop this menace but it has never quite been eradicated. Ashutosh Gowariker was a recent victim of it when the master print of his soon to released film, 'What's Your Raashee?' was stolen from Adlabs in Film City where the film was being processed. Apparently, a top official at Adlabs was hand in glove with the perpetrators and had apparently given out the film's masterprint to them for RS 2 lakhs. 'What's Your Raashee?' which stars Priyanka Chopra and Harman Baweja, is scheduled to release all over this Friday. The cops stepped into the picture after Gowariker registered a complaint with them. The filmmaker took this step when the masterprint of his movie went missing days within its reaching Adlabs. The cops have now arrested the people who were part of this scam. But when they raided the culprits' premises, they also recovered pirated CDs and DVDs of the movie which they culprits were planning to sell in India and abroad. Gowariker was probably lucky as he managed to react in time, but many more filmmakers may not be so lucky. It is a menace which needs to be stamped out entirely but unfortunately has now become a part of the system as people are willing to pay to watch a pirated CD or DVD of a new movie. As long as there are buyers, there will always be people willing to sell.