Hyderabad, Nov 16: Ace director S S Rajamouli has now explained the amount of effort his team took to ensure that the content of their film was not leaked and also expressed his pain at how a random drone operated by unscrupulous elements had, despite their best efforts, managed to leak a still from his much-awaited magnum opus, ‘Varanasi’.
At the title announcement event of the film, which features Mahesh Babu in the lead, the makers attempted to screen the title teaser on a giant screen they had erected for the purpose. Initially, there were technical glitches. However, the makers set it right and treated fans to a splendid title teaser. Director S S Rajamouli, while waiting for the technical glitches to be fixed, explained the reason for the issue. Stating that they had set up a giant screen to give the audiences a feel of the scale and scope of this film, Rajamouli said, “We were doing everything. We were supposed to test our video last night. But to make sure that the teaser shouldn’t leak, we used huge cranes to cover this place with black cloths and worked late into the night. At about 2 am, we started testing our test videos, without playing our teaser. We don’t know where these people came. I don’t know if it was one or two of them. They started taking a drone and used it to make a video out of whatever we were supposed to show.