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They had to sue to watch a movie.

January 2023. Pathaan — one of the biggest films in Indian history — arrives with nothing for the people who can't hear it. No captions. No sign language. A group of Deaf and low-vision film lovers, led by a Deaf lawyer, takes the studio to the Delhi High Court.

They won. The court ordered the film made accessible — and told the government to write the rules so nobody has to sue for a movie again.

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The fight

That evening has happened millions of times.

Not just at the movies. At the bank, the hospital, the government counter, the news broadcast. India's sign language is Indian Sign Language (ISL) — and almost nothing speaks it.

~63 million Indians estimated to live with significant hearing loss. The 2011 Census counted 5 million. The gap between those numbers is everyone the system has never met. Seeds: WHO estimates; Census of India 2011.

Tens of millions more live with blindness or low vision — a parallel story, waiting on audio description. Seed: national blindness & VI survey.

A few hundred certified ISL interpreters exist for all of it. No agency model can close that. Only a community that produces access itself — and gets paid — can. Seed: ISLRTC certification figures.

The promise

The community fought. The law promised.

2016 — The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act promises accessible services, information, and culture — with penalties.
2023 — The Pathaan petitioners win in the Delhi High Court.
2026 — Because they fought, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting notifies OTT accessibility rules: captions, sign language, audio description — every streaming platform in India now on a dated, 36-month clock.
Ongoing — IS 17802 sets the ICT standard; national education policy names ISL; TV accessibility standards phase in for broadcasters.

The community won the law.
Nobody has built the delivery.

Why captions alone can't keep the promise → Why Sign Language

What keeping the promise looks like

We've seen the third act.

In the Philippines, city councils are writing accessibility into local law with a11y at the table as technical partner — a cinema-access ordinance is already past first reading. Deaf creators are paid to produce sign language, captions, and audio description on our platform. In Bohol, Deaf residents have been trialing the service in their own province.

In Singapore, we ran trials with the Lighthouse and the Singapore Association for the Deaf — the model crossing its first border.

And for the movies specifically: our patent-pending cinema technology puts augmented reality on a moviegoer's face and delivers the film in synchronized sign language, captions, or audio description — while the person beside them watches the screen untouched.

Different countries. Same story: the community makes the access; institutions pay for the promise they already owe; a citizen finally just buys a ticket.

Your market

Now read that story again — set here.

A Mumbai multiplex where a Deaf family just buys tickets.

A state portal that answers in ISL.

A streaming platform that meets its 36-month deadline early — with content the Deaf community made, and got paid for.

India is not one market; it is a federation of them. What one state adopts, 27 more states and 8 union territories can copy. The OTT clock alone puts every platform in the country on deadline. And every sign language is a market someone organizes first — whoever organizes ISL, the largest signing community on earth, keeps it.

The builder

This story needs its Indian builder.

We bring

The platform, the API, and the creator playbook
The compliance-to-comprehension playbook, proven city by city
The brand, training, and the patent-pending cinema line

You bring

Standing in India — government, media, or the Deaf community
Operating capacity and relationships
Market investment, and the ambition to run a market this size

A licensed market operation, built with the local community — terms discussed directly. Deaf-led organizations and entrepreneurs are explicitly welcome: the people who won the ruling may be exactly who should build what it promised.

More ways in

Sponsor the access

A brand underwrites screenings, creator content, or a service line — and speaks sign language to the largest Deaf community on earth before its competitors do.

Distribute & integrate

Platforms on the 36-month clock, broadcasters, and telcos carry the access to their own audiences through one API — with or without a market partner in place.

Host the first

A state, a city, or a cinema chain stages India's first accessible screening day — the first-mover moment no press release can buy.

Invest

Back the Indian operation alongside an operator — or introduce us to the one who should run it. Investors

Next step

The law made a promise. Nobody is keeping it. That is the business.

Write to us — form, email, or a signed or spoken video message. The process: intro call → NDA → the India market dossier → terms.

Are you operating in India today?: Not yet. That is the point of this page.
What does a partnership include?: The platform, the playbook, the brand, and our team beside yours — under a licensed market structure whose terms we discuss directly.
We're a platform or broadcaster on the 36-month clock — can you serve us directly?: Yes — that is the Platform page. Integrations don't wait for a market partner.