Essay Crime

Piracy Se Pyaar

Partners In Crime navigates the abstract worlds of copyright, art and the market

01 April 2011
The film crew: (Left to Right) Shanti Bhushan, Paromita Vohra and Asheesh Pandya.
DEEPIKA SHARMA
The film crew: (Left to Right) Shanti Bhushan, Paromita Vohra and Asheesh Pandya.
DEEPIKA SHARMA

THIS IS A LOVE STORY, and the path of love never runs smooth.

“My name is Sayyed Osama. I am a pirate. I sell all type of pirated films, including adult movies,” declares a cocky, smalltime pirate to the camera in Partners in Crime, a new documentary tracking the grey horizons of copyright and culture. In the background is his makeshift little shop in a streetside market with rows upon rows of the latest Bollywood film DVDs.

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Snigdha Poonam  was previously  an editor at The Caravan. She has written for a number of publications, including the New York TImes, The Guardian and Granta.

Keywords: art documentary Piracy copyright crime intellectual property
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