year after year we boast of the technical advancements and novelty in story telling incorporated in our films be it bollywood kollywood tollywood mollywood sandalwood or others though the number of flop films in the last few years in any indian film industry is way more than the ones which are successful ventures there are ample reasons like market expansion in abroad for film buffs and those in the industry to be content that said the second biggest industry in the world has been facing the onslaught of piracy hollywood too which is eating away a major chunk of its business while it was the pirated versions which used to circulate post the films release which was a bothersome factor for filmmakers distributors and exhibitors the influx of instances like prints getting released from theatres and the leaks during the postproduction stages are giving the producers nightmares a few experts in the industry belonging to varied fields of cinema elucidate on the various ways how movies are affected at the bo due to piracy and delineate on a few steps which according to them if implemented would prove to be fruitful to the industry the topic was also muchtalkedabout at the big cine expo event held in the city recentlyunity and stringent laws neededabirami ramanthan veteran exhibitor and producer notes that there are 100s of films in the indian industry which are damp squibs every year owing to the hazard of piracy the film industry he says has hit rock bottom and it is sad to see people within the industry encouraging such practises in the recent times we have come across incidents where exhibitors were mute spectators while a few miscreants inside the movie halls were filming the movie on a handycam needless to say this cant occur without the help of the respective theatre owners or staff members reportedly seven tamil films were filmed inside a theatre in the last two months all these films were outright disasters at the bo we are all proceeding legally against that particular cinema house the film industries tamil or hindi or any others in our country are already at crossroads and this kind of backstabbing will only rub salt on the woundhe feels that the association for theatre owners which exist in almost every state should get together and present their concern to the government they should implement serious action may be something on the lines of a special cess for us we are ready to pay also i believe something should be done in terms of selling the internet rights as the revenue from theatre cannot be expected after a weekquiz him whether laws like goondas act could be applied in piracy and pat comes the reply in fact there have been 20 cases registered under this against people who made pirated films but all of them were released in a months time thanks to the loopholes in our lawstracking the sourcethe film fraternity of respective industries should join