A case has been lodged by the Pune police against a mobile repair services vendor caught red-handed selling pirated copies of director Nagraj Manjule’s Sairat which has taken the box-office by storm since its release on April 29.
The action follows soon after a concerned Mr. Manjule had earlier approached the Cyber Police Station in Mumbai, complaining that at a high quality censor-approved version of his film was illicitly leaked online.
While the Cyber police have initiated the process of tracing the Internet Protocol address from which the movie was uploaded on the internet, the arrest in Pune is the first in the State to be made in this connection. The Swargate police booked Kasam Sheikh after he was caught downloading and selling copies of the film on CD for Rs. 100.
The miscreant was booked under various sections of the Copyright Act including 51, 52 (A) and 58.
Sairaat , a deceptively love story between a feisty rich daughter of a local politico and the son of a humble fisherman which subverts cliches, has taken the box office by storm raking in collections in the excess of Rs. 12 crore in the first three days of its release, leaving its often trite Bollywood offerings in the shade.
Mr. Manjule, known for his sensitive renditions of class and caste within his love stories, broke ground with his Fandry in 2013.
