And we have Kannada speaking population all over the world, who want to watch Kannada movies. Kannada Film Industry in the current situation cannot look at overseas releases as a viable option. How exactly does Home Talkies combat piracy? There are some legal and copyright issues, as well as technical problems with streaming for India (many still have low internet speeds). Yes, Home Talkies is for people outside India at the moment. The movies can be viewed by people residing outside India only, why? As the description the website goes ‘through Home Talkies, we want our filmmakers to reach out to all the kannadigas who are in different corners of the globe.’ Viewers can watch high quality, legal copies of the film, online for a fee.Ĭitizen Matters caught up with the anti-piracy crusader. Pawan has founded Home Talkies a movie viewing website to release Kannada films on the web. Home talkies aims to protect Kannada cinema piracy. Now he’s gone back to a familiar approach engineers take to fix problems: technology. For his debut film, Lifeu Ishtene, he ended up irking the Censor Board by re-releasing the movie with a changed ending. Pawan Kumar is also a piracy warrior in Sandalwood. However that is not why he is the focus of this article. He is 29, trained as an engineer, a Kannada-film maker of rising repute.
