Arun Kumar: Pirates are robbing Bollywood of a billion dollars in revenue annually in the US, says veteran Indian filmmaker Bobby Bedi, lamenting that “the face of the Indian films pirate is Indian”.

“The home video market in the US is bleeding massively with close to 95 percent of Indian films pirated,” he says. “Go to any Indian store in the US and you’ll see stacks of pirated Indian films,” adds Bedi who has himself seen five varieties of a single film in an Indian store.

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