'Uri:The Surgical Strike' is just out in theatres as of this past Friday, and people are flocking to watch it.

Patriotic feelings aside however, some don't want to spend the money to buy a ticket, so they've been looking for torrents of Uri online. And in a way, they found them.

The team behind the Aditya Dhar movie, which follows the events of a 2016 surgical strike by the Indian army, have been working hard to keep the prints from leaking out to illegal torrent sites. However, there's only so much control they can maintain over someone sneaking a camera into a cinema to sneakily record. So they just decided to upload the torrents themselves.

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You see, the makers of Uri have been deliciously devious in their preventive measures. Some users found copies of the movie on illegal sites and proceeded to download them, presumably rubbing their palms together in glee. After downloading close to 4GB of movie file, they didn't however get the 2.5 hour Bollywood movie. Instead, when they started the video they got this.

That's some time into the movie's opening scene when, in the middle of discussing a surgical strike, the actors pivot to face the camera and deliver a fourth wall-breaking chastisement of you, you filthy pirate.

"Surgical strikes 0400 hours pe start hogi," Yami Gautam's character says. "Unki army ko pata bhi nahin chalega kikya hua."

That's when Major Vihan turns to the viewer and says "Theek usi tarah, jaise iss waqt hum aapke screen mein ghus gaye hain. Aur aapko pata bhi nahin chala"

Clearly, the makers figured that their best bet at discouraging movie pirates would be to flood the market with their fakes. After all, most people would give up on encountering the first of these fake movies the creators released.

They were pretty convincing too, as the file download was a hefty 3.8GB. Of course, that was filled with this spoof movie and the trailer, both encouraging you to watch it in theatres.

You have to hand it to them, it's a brilliant move. Best to watch it in theatres, and not illegally through torrents.