‘Dishoom’ To Be Submitted To Censor Board In Encrypted Format To Prevent Leak

In the past few months, films like Udta Punjab, Great Grand Masti and Kabali got leaked online and in order to prevent a similar fate, the makers of upcoming film Dishoom have decided to send the film in an encrypted format to the Censor Board for certification to prevent a leak.

Sources claim that for the first time, a movie will be submitted through a DCP-KDM format, instead of a DVD. DCP or Digital Cinema Package is the digital equivalent of a film print, packaged on a hard-drive for playback on a Digital Cinema server system. A DCP usually arrives at a theatre on a hard-drive or USB flash drive, and is played off the theatre’s Digital Cinema Server on basic verification through a Digital Cinema Projector. A KDM (Key Delivery Message), on the other hand, is a special electronic key that contains a code to ‘unlocks’ an encrypted film. The encryption prevents films from being stolen and duplicated.

Directed by Rohit Dhawan, Dishoom stars John Abraham, Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez and Akshaye Khanna.