AYNGARAN INTERNATIONAL ON VELAYUDHAM BLU-RAY

 At least 50% of the DPX files are slightly pillarboxed - due to different cameras used on principle photography; thereby giving us a varied aspect ratio. For its theatrical release: the frame size was slightly zoomed in when printed from DI to 35mm. This helped remove the pillarbox. Sadly, this meant that 50% of scenes that did not have pillarbox issue was cropped - causing picture information to be lost. For the blu-ray - we debated on what to do. If we follow the 35mm aspect ratio version of zooming into the picture (thus removing the pillarbox) it will cause film grain to increase in size and could lead to complaints. Zooming would also crop image information on scenes which doesn't have pillarbox issue. So I have advised AP International to encode the picture as the DPX file (with pillarboxing), since this was approved by the director at the time of final post-production. We will place a warning on the blu-ray inlay card - so that customers are aware before purchasing.