India, Jan. 27 -- It began with 2024's Martin, when the team issued copyright strikes on anyone on YouTube who did not like the film (which was pretty much everyone). More recently, the teams of films like The Devil, 45 and Mark obtained court orders to curtail rating and reviews on popular ticket aggregators like BookMyShow. The latest to join this bandwagon is the Kannada film Landlord, which released on January 23, 2026. A select few popular YouTube reviewers have received injunction notices against publishing reviews of the film.

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Ahead of Landlord's release director Jadeshaa K Hampi had been asked about the trend of blocking re...