{"id":798,"date":"2004-12-08T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=798"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:28","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:28","slug":"i_love_watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/i_love_watching\/","title":{"rendered":"I love watching movies on tiny screens. Not."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Anna_looks_like_my_stepmom\"<\/p>\n\n

So my favourite MC<\/a> leaves me a message about this article from ABC News<\/a>…apparently an Indian cell phone company is going to broadcast a new Bollywood phil-im in its entirety, for free. On their customer’s mobiles. (Well, the customers who dished $270 for a phone that can stream video…)<\/p>\n\n

“Rok Sako To Rok Lo,” or “Stop, If You Can,” will be available to Bharti Tele-Ventures customers in 11 Indian cities, provided their phones have the supporting technology, said Atul Bindal, a director at India’s second-largest cellular service provider.<\/blockquote>\n\n

They are boldly and potentially annoyingly going where no company has gone before:<\/p>\n\n

Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. will be “the first cellular service in the world to premiere a full-length movie on mobile phones,” Bindal said. “I am certain that this service will add a whole new dimension to the concept of mobile-based entertainment.” <\/blockquote>\n\n

“Rok Sako To Rok Lo” stars Sunny Deol (pictured)…and no one else, meaning the film’s other actors aren’t well-known, exciting or important. \ud83d\ude09 Directed by Arindam Chaudhary, the teen flick will debut on cell phones Thursday, and be released to regular old theaters Friday.<\/p>\n\n

Don’t everybody try and drain your cell phone batteries at once:<\/p>\n\n

A maximum of 200 people will be able to connect and watch the movie simultaneously, and the movie cannot be copied or replayed. <\/blockquote>\n\n

If this novel experiment in using mobile phones for something other than, oh, talking, is successful, Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd. may air other phil-ims, for a phee. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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