The most crucial turning point in Premam issue had come in last day as the police and Anti-Piracy cell had made an arrest yesterday which is said to be very crucial in the course of the investigation in this Premam piracy issue. Three students from Kollam district has been arrested by the police and Anti-Piracy cell for uploading the pirated print of Premam in internet. They had uploaded the film in a website named Kickass.com on June 22. The flick has been released all over on the 29th of May this year. Police said that the arrested students has a strong and crucial connection with the piracy lobby in Kerala and they had been brought to the Anti-piracy wing of the Crime Branch headquarters from Kollam for interrogation. Police said that more details are likely to get from them and more arrests will be made soon in this case.
Anti-Piracy cell confirmed that the print of the film had leaked even before its release and precisely before 19th of May. Anti-piracy cell also confirmed that the print has leaked out from the copy given to censor board and they had asked for the CD from the censor board for further investigation. Censor board had said that they will give the CD after getting permission from its headquarters in Mumbai.
The film showed before the censor board members on May 18th and they had suggested that the letters showing the statutory warning against Smoking and Drinking will be a bit more big. Then the print went to the studio in Trivandrum and after the edit it went back to the censor board. The next day they issued the censor certificate for the film as well. The water mark of censoring was added at a studio in Ernakulam and the editing of the film also took place there.
Police focusing more on Censor board and this studio at Ernakulam along with the one in Trivandrum where the statutory warning part was added to the film. The leaked print came bearing the water mark of a censor copy and that is why censor board is a primary suspect in this issue.
