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As many may already know, we started work on "Baahubali" movie in August 2012. Since then apart from the main cast and crew, several vendors and hundreds of talented individuals have been working hard on the project with commitment, passion and integrity.
Hence, it was a real shock when we realised that 12 minutes of raw unfinished footage of a key sequence in our film was in the public domain. The last three weeks or so, since we came to know of it were really harrowing to all of us involved in the project. It has the potential to jeopardise the hard work put in by so many passionate people not to mention the huge financial risk.
An ex-system administrator, who was in-charge of all the data in one of the VFX firms working for us, had taken the content out of facility without anyone's knowledge or permission. He had in fact signed an NDA and a letter
confirming that he had surrendered all confidential data while leaving the firm. There is very little that one can do when the very person entrusted with securing the content behaves irresponsibly. The City Cyber-Crime division has now arrested the person.
We really appreciate the efforts of our well wishers and fans especially in Tanuku and Bhimavaram who went out of their way to first bring this matter to our notice and also identify the source of the leak.
We are making every effort to ensure that the leaked content is not in the public domain. We would be grateful if you can cooperate with us in this effort. We request you not to share the content and report any links on internet or social media to info@arkamediaworks.com.
We would now like to put this episode behind us and move on as we have lot to do!
-Team bahubali