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Telugu film World Famous Lover, which hit screens on February 14, is the latest victim of piracy website Tamilrockers.
Directed by Kranthi Madhav of Malli Malli Idhi Rani Roju fame, World Famous Lover stars Vijay Deverakonda, Raashi Khanna, Aishwarya Rajessh, Catherine Tresa and Izabelle Leite among others.
Tamilrockers, despite being banned by the Madras High Court, tends to leak new movies on their website.
Tamilrockers continues to work through proxy servers and keeps changing its domain, making it difficult to block the website.
Before the release of World Famous Lover, Vijay Devarakonda in an exclusive interview with indianexpress.com, said that this film will be his last love story. “Love stories don’t excite me. World Famous Lover will be my last love story, at least for a while. Within two or three months, you will see my new phase as an actor and as a person. I know what kind of movies I am going to do in the next two years,” the actor remarked.
Indianexpress.com's Manoj Kumar R gave World Famous Lover 3 stars and said Vijay Devarakonda was “in his element as a bleeding, wailing and reckless lover.”
In his review, he wrote, “World Famous Lover is not a cheesy romantic story about a man hurting from inside and fighting to win back the love of his life. It is an indictment of the male gaze that fails to see the other side of the story: women.”
