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A blue film is a film associated with the amateur underground pornography industry in India. Other names for the industry include the more reserved 'human trafficking,' which refers to the perceived belief that participants have little or no control over their participation in the films due to economic pressures from the Indian underground crime syndicates, as they are 'trafficked' around.

While the Indian government has attempted to limit or prevent the production and distribution of such tapes, manufacturers have become increasingly creative, even following the precedents set by the Japanese and American pornography industries and offering the films in animated format.

The name ostensibly comes from the fact that to maintain anonymity in the past, video participants masked their identities via blue bars across their eyes added during video post-processing. Unverified online sources also indicate that the slang finds its origins in that during the 1980s, pornographic video casettes were sealed using blue tape.

In 2005, Mohit Suri directed a movie called Kalyug in 2005, starring Deepal Shaw and Kunal Khemu. The movie was produced by Mahesh and Mukesh Bhatt, Bollywood producers notorious for remaking popular Hollywood films with Indian actors.

The film attempted to reveal aspects of the industry as a doppelganger to its more mainstream Bollywood counterpart. It was later renamed Kalyug, due to controversy over its title. (read more . . . )