As a result, many 2022 Bollywood movies were harder to find on pirate sites by late 2022, and those that were available often had poor quality or fake files.

In the digital ecosystem of film consumption, 2022 marked a transitional year for the Indian film industry. As theaters reopened post-pandemic, Bollywood released a slew of high-budget films hoping to recover losses. However, parallel to this theatrical revival, websites like continued to operate as significant thorns in the side of producers and distributors.