With most households having one TV, it was a struggle to get the TV to yourself, while DVDs were mythical, elusive things, so expensive that you would never consciously buy them. Your options were to either watch one episode a week on TV or get the DVD. ![]() This changed when internet connectivity improved and torrents came along. The internet was patchy (Dial-up nightmares) and while the Cable Television Boom had happened, the variety of content was still limited. Growing up in the 90s, you didn’t have a lot of options for consuming content. To answer that we should go beyond looking at things in black and white and see the grey matter in between. Of course, torrents are available for all movies, a few days after release. This was cruelly ironic in the case of Paanch and Mohalla Assi, movies that could never be released commercially but are available for download on the internet. ![]() Full-length copies of the movies were available for download days before the movies were released. What do all these movies have in common? They were all leaked online before release. Udta Punjab, Mohalla Assi, Paanch, and Tera Kya Hoga Johnny.
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