Darling (2007) DVD by T-series - DVD-5, with embedded T-series logo and SMS ads during the songs































Ali

How much are they paying for us to pick it up and watch their adverts ??

Funnily enough people who do pay for this DVD not only have to put up with mediocre video quality with the embedded ads & logo – they also have to watch the anti-piracy ads at the start of the DVD. Preaching to the converted? You don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the irony, oh well I suppose we should count our blessings that at they’ve made the anti-piracy ads skipable (along with the movie )





Ali

If priced same as pirated then it is lesser evil imho

... well apparently T-series are trying out a new distribution channel for this DVD - they are seemingly giving it away on a free download at the usual places

Ali

Stop Piracy eh, how do you think T-Series got their start? Selling pirated tapes in Delhi in the 80s.

Screen shots from the Eros DVD-9 (taken from btwtorrents.com);









Ali

Gulshan Kumar and T-Series were the biggest music software pirates in the world at one time. In fact T-Series, while still under Gulshan Kumar, was known to pirate even it's own titles and actually sold more copies of the pirated/unoffical version than the originals. In case you are wondering why anyone would do that, well for two reasons. Number one to steal from the title/film producers, by not having to share the true royalties with them. Gulshan Kumar/T-Series even started releasing cover versions of titles that they had the original rights to. This again was done to avoid paying royalties to the original producers. The Second reason for doing all this, was to steal from the government on Excise Duty. By selling pirated/unaccounted for copies T-Series did not have to pay Excise Duty on them. This was a pretty openly known secret, which is why a time came when no one from Bollywood wanted to do business with Gulshan Kumar/T-Series anymore. Thus for quite a long time T-Series would not get rights to any new titles, that's when T-Series were left with simply making cover versions of new Bollywood releases and they also started releasing albums for films that would actually never get made and/or released. There were some titles that they did produce and release but a lot of the announced titles only had the songs picturised to promote the music.

By the way for those that may not know, Gulshan Kumar was a roadside juice vendor in Lajpat Rai market before he turned to releasing pirated audio tapes. Partly the music industry themselves were to blame for promoting Gulshan Kumar, by not releasing their titles only on LP records and not on audio cassettes. Thus the constomer really had no choice but to buy pirated if they wanted audio cassettes. When finally HMV did start releasing the audio tapes, they outpriced themselves by charging the same Re 50 - Re 55 for the tapes that they did for LP records. Now do keep in mind that we are talking of almost 25 yrs back, when Re 50 was a whole lot of money. Actually Re 50 back then would be almost equal to Re 1000 now if not even more. Considering the average and even the upper middle class Indian's earning back then, that surely was an obscene amount to charge.

intresting info about Gulshan Kumar

The T-Series version will probably be going for $5 CDN at my retailer .. same price as pirates

Don't know why there is so much blue tint and washed out colors. Not sure if the colors can be brought back to life by adjusting color/ contrast controls in the monitor.

But, the DVD has perfect 2-3 pull down for progressive viewing. No chroma lag or 4th frame info split into 4th and 5th frames. 5th frames are exact repeat of 4th frames.

Bottom line is, that the guy was no more than a thug and a thief. He got what he deserved when he was shot after what else do you expect when the life he led was full of crime and association with the underworld. By the way just to add some more info, he was also majorly involved in the cricket gambling racket. Oh and the Taurani's of Tips too have pretty much a similar history as Gulshan Kumar.

PS: For those who might want to give him credit for being a very religious and charitable man, I have this to say. It was all business. If you sell soft drinks, you sponsor rock shows, if you sell 'bhajans', well then you sponsor religious functions. Quite simple actually.

I agree with you100% Sanjay
JAT