The makers of the much-talked-about film, 'Varanasi', slammed the drone operators for leaking an important scene from their teaser.
SS Rajamouli's upcoming film, Varanasi has been making all the noise for its magnum name announcement event. However, even before the teaser of the film could be officially released, it was leaked online. Now, SS Rajamouli revealed the amount of effort his team had taken to ensure that the content of their film was not leaked out but one drone ruined it all.
Recently, an event was hosted for the title announcement of the film, which featured Mahesh Babu as the main character and Priyanka Chopra as the heroine. The makers revealed that they attempted to screen the title teaser on a giant screen, which they had placed for the event. However, they were facing initial glitches.
However, the director, SS Rajamouli, revealed that during the technical glitches the team was trying to fix, the makers took immense precautions to prevent a leak. They used huge cranes to cover the place with black cloth. But at 2 in the night, they started testing their videos, when drones came flying and they recorded the video of whatever they were supposed to show. He said:
"We were doing everything. We were supposed to test our video last night. But to make sure that the teaser shouldn't leak, we used huge cranes to cover this place with black cloths and worked late into the night. At about 2 am, we started testing our test videos, without playing our teaser. We don't know where these people came. I don't know if it was one or two of them. They started taking a drone and used it to make a video out of whatever we were supposed to show."
SS Rajamouli revealed how these people leaked the video on the internet way before its time. He revealed that it was the hard work of one year of so many people. He revealed that it was all leaked online, with one drone flying. He stated that they had not even tested the video as they feared it would get leaked online. He was quoted as saying:
"They put it out on the Internet. That is one year of hard work of so many people. Thousands and thousands of man hours and crores and crores of Rupees. There was so much of hard work. All that was leaked by one drone flying randomly. We did not know what to do. We did not even test our video fearing it could be leaked. We wanted to show it in full scale and full resolution and we thought we would take a risk."
SS Rajamouli showed his directorial prowess on screen with the trailer launch of his upcoming film, Varanasi. It featured Priyanka Chopra, Mahesh Babu and Prithviraj Sukumaran. The film was first titled SSMB29. Since then, fans have been showering love on the film and awaiting its release.
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