All you have to do to watch this 90-minute coming-of-age English feature film is enter a password.
The password is: ipromisenottohateit
Before you can watch the film here, here are the disclaimers:
1. Given limitations of streaming video online, this is the best size we could manage. Please watch with headphones for better audio quality. If you are not happy with this picture quality, the film will be able on home video in India (through Moser Baer) and through video on demand (through Tata Sky) from mid-February 2009.
2. This is a low budget independent film made with a budget of Rs. three and a half lakhs and resources available at that point of time. At best, it’s a half decent effort, a five on ten film, which is also the reason you get to watch it free.
3. Play and Pause immediately to let the page load (Just like how you watch videos on Youtube). Depending on your internet connection, it may take around 10-40 minutes for you to load each of the two parts and you can start watching even if has buffering suggests only half of it is over because by the time you get to the halfway mark, the rest of it would have loaded too. So I suggest you let Part 2 load as you are watching Part 1. Part 3 is just the end credits, goofs and outtakes – and it’s three minutes long only because we have a long list of people to thank. So if you want to make a hit-list of all people responsible for this misadventure, don’t miss Part 3.
Do feel free to report any errors or problems faced in loading the page and I will do my best to assist you.
And those of you who have blogs, please feel free to spread the word and inflict it on the world. And please tell your friends not to embed the videos on to their blogs because as producers, we could flag the sites and report copyright violation. A link to this, however, will be appreciated.
This is for the first time in the world that a filmmaker is showing his entire feature length film online and free.
And that’s because I want more people to have heard about the film and I hope that the word-of-mouth will help boost the DVD and home video sales in February 2009.
Those who will download will anyway do so anyway and those who want to support the film will anyway buy DVDs… So I’m guessing no harm done here by this experiment. 
Feedback on the film is welcome too. But remember what you typed as the password.
Have a that-four-letter-word-in’ time!
Cheers!
Sudhish Kamath
Hi Sudhish,
This is to leave a ‘Wannabe Studios was here’ note in support of your film – from a li’l network of independent filmmakers on the www. This is also to invite you to take a look our network, perhaps join us and anyways promote TFLW (among other things) among our members.
We are about 10 months and a feature film old at our network. Our feature ‘Onan’ (Tamil/English) brought together the talents of 11 of our members from 7 countries and 4 continents. It is a caper movie that was shot guerilla-style in Chennai and Kochi this summer.
I would also like to invite you to a sneak preview (private focus group actually) of our feature too. So please drop by and have a look-see at http://wannabestudios.ning.com. We would love to have you there!
Regards,
Shyam Madhavan Sarada
(Founder, Wannabe Studios)
PS: I was in two minds whether to watch TFLW online or wait to buy the DVD. Maybe I’ll just do both
I am waiting for the DVD release
Please keep us updated when one is expected to be released. I am tired of watching it in low def.
a 1280 x 800 pixel resolution will be awesome
Thanks guys.
~Esh