Quote Originally Posted by Saai View Post
How come theater owners be middle men? They own the theaters and they are "THE" stakeholders in taking the movie to the end consumer. This is case of an overrated product oversold. A mistake from the buyers to take it at just face value. But...but....looks like this trade doesn't allow distributors to watch the movie. So, the distributors/ theatre owners do not have the chance to check the end-product. They go simply by the trust factor. That is why that guy is repeating the "10 padayappa thingy", which is what the people involved in the project told them.

You could accuse them of foolishness but greed? Who gets the majority of the money from a rajni film success? Is he greedy too? What are you even talking about?
your understanding is wrong...nobody goes by the trust factor....this guy went by the one and only Rajini factor....10 padayappa etc is all blown out...it was his expectation....