VOD: Humble Plea To Bollywood

Dec 18 • Videos • 249 Views • 1 Comment

I just saw this video made by the guys at All India Bakchod and I had tears in my eyes, someone was saying what I wanted to in a way I’d never imagine.

And here’s the reason for the video:

So, AIB tried to do a Dhoom trailer spoof. But most studios take them down immediately because they can’t take a joke.—
Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) December 18, 2013

So AIB went to YRF, requested them to not ban the video. Offered to let them monetize the video. And modify jokes.—
Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) December 18, 2013

Offered to link to original trailer in the video. Thank YRF personally for being sporting. Instead, they asked us to “drop the idea”—
Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) December 18, 2013

So our latest sketch is a song we would like to dedicate to YRF and the rest of Bollywood. Lighten the fuck up guys.—
Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) December 18, 2013

Problem with YouTube is that if a channel gets 3 strikes, it gets suspended. We’ve worked hard on the channel, we don’t want a strike.—
Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) December 18, 2013

There’s always the option of releasing it on another platform. However, we thought it would be more fun to address it this way.—
Tanmay Bhat (@thetanmay) December 18, 2013

Having started dfuse.in over 4 years ago, we have more often than not wanted to spoof trailers but then the fact that Indian studios don’t really like this is a huge problem. And a bad rep on YouTube means the channel goes to the dogs with all of what it holds. My friend Kenneth Sebastian has been making parody videos for a while. Most of his parodies were taken of and wanting to maintain his YouTube account (which involves a lot of hard work) he uploaded them elsewhere (on YouTube:P)

Heck we even made a Dhoom 3 Teaser Parody (watch out for me as Abhishek Bachchan) without giving a fuck.

What Kenneth did here was very clever- he recreated the entire teaser from scratch- and that’s not easy. It’s like making a new trailer by itself. the trailer is still online- because YashRaj can’t take it down because it infringes no copyright of theirs. And there have been mashups and trailers that haven’t been taken down like this one:

But what we at dfuse.in wanted to make was more like this:

But knowing how stuff gets banned we asked around and we were mostly not replied to and at times refused.
We really hope, that the folks at Indian movie distributors calm the fuck down and you know be a sport to the madness that awaits them. Cause we are making parodies next year, like it or not.

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About the Author: Aniket Dasgupta

A self depreciating film dogmatist, Aniket has the most delusional form of existence ever possible. Being a 90s kid he cribs every-time he sees a 5 year old with an iPhone and then blogs about it after which he makes a film based on that blog. And then spams everyone on facebook about it. He is just glad that he isn't related to Chunky Pandey but we are pretty sure he is. Aniket is non religious but believes that all we need is bacon.

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