On Tuesday, as believers celebrated Hanuman Jayanti, social media was abuzz with Dev PatelThe ape man. While uncertainty prevails surrounding the Indian release of Patel’s first directorial film, it garnered widespread acclaim upon its US release earlier this month and is now available on video-on-demand platforms in the US. Consequently, pirated copies have appeared online. Sources tell us that the hacked link of the movie was leaked late on April 22 and was all over social media the next day.
A source reveals that the Warner Bros team, which handles Universal Pictures releases in India, swung into action on Monday night. “But it took the team more than 12 hours to find the source link. After the first link was removed on Tuesday afternoon, people circulated it on Google Drive. It was not until 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday that all links were successfully removed. “Several accounts that had shared the link on X received copyright infringement notices from the microblogging site.”
Monkey Man It sees Patel play the central character, who goes on a quest to avenge his mother’s death at the hands of corrupt leaders and emerges as a champion of the marginalized. The source adds, “The film has been awaiting censorship clearance in India since March. While extreme violence is a concern, many real-life incidents have been described, making this a sensitive post in an election year.”