No. As long as a Bollywood film releases in a theater, someone will point a smartphone at the screen. The only cure is affordable, simultaneous global release at a price of zero friction—which Bollywood is still too slow to adopt.
The story of Thiruttu entertainment is as old as Bollywood’s move to color. In the 1980s and 1990s, piracy meant grainy VHS tapes dubiously duplicated in Alibaba caves of Bombay’s old city. But the digital revolution of the early 2000s transformed thiruttu from a cottage industry into a logistics marvel. Thiruttu aunty masala