Unappeased with the attitude of Maharsahtra government Bollywood has shifted ball against the maker’s of pirated DVDs, VCDs and CDs into the court of central government.

Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA) has urged railway minister Lalu Yadav to order Station Masters of the different stations to prohibit selling of pirated CDs and DVDs from the stations by vendors. “The film industry contributes so much to the state exchequer, so we hope that the government will do something about it. The pirates are eating into our legitimate revenues,” said TP Aggarwal, president of IMPPA.

It is termed as sorry state of affairs by Bollywood producers that despite the assurance given by state Home Minister R. R.  Patil, the Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities ACT (MPDAA) has not yet been implemented as this is well established act that Mumbai is center of piracy in India. According to an estimate piracy eats up nearly 20 percent of whopping revenue of Rs. 6 billion generated by Bollywood each year.

And the vendors completely pay deaf ears to the complaint of film industry as they are only concerned with their revenue and benefit. So it also responsibility of viewers also to avoid screening of movies on pirated DVD and CDs.