UlagaNayagan KAMALHAASAN in ||"PAPANASAM"|| Directed by Jeethu Joseph

[sakaLAKALAKAlaa Vallavar]

Overall, ban announcement, postponement, uncertainity of release, happening repeatedly for ALL kamal films is surely a very very worrysome situation. But if one looks on individual case basis, question raises on other end too. in this case its kamal's.

Even though we may say the distros/theater nexus are turning rowdy mafias, still they are pouring laksh and crores as advance payment, for all the biggies that is kamal/rajini/vijay/ajith/surya films. so they do have a stake. none of the biggies films releases to theaters on collection/dcr share basis. only MG basis is the practical happening of the day.

Uttama villain initial issue was purely due to lingusamy and then itself there was an announcement that kamal's side agreed for a 30crorse small budget film to help lingu's financial case. this indirectly means kamal has some stake in the lingu's case. atleast thats what one can decipher, from the publicly available news sources. then kamal started thoongavanam and there was no news about that 30C movie. now, the distro/theater nexus force-pressed papanasam producers by announcing a verbal-ban for the film yesterday and it seems today morning, those gang were asked to meet kamal in thoongavanam sets in chennai and after a hour long discussion, its being decided that the 30C film will happen after thoongavanam and thus the soft-ban on PN stands lifted. So this info in a way means that kamal didnt consider the 30C movie unless knife was placed in his to be released film. so now whom to be reasoned for the ban, though we may say its unfair way to do this publicly instead of the distro nexus directly contacting the PN movie camp and explaining the issue.

same goes to linga where singaravelan and co had boldly gone even to police and tn gvt eplaining his case and he still owes money from rockline but it seems rajni-nexus successfully fooled singaravelan of settling the money. and there were news that linga losses in other areas were silently settled.

also, coming back to UV, the 1 and half day delay in release and uncertainity, surely made almost 8 crore loss of opening. but kamal didnt care to explain the reason to fans or public, unlike vishwaroopam issue. lingu was most careless and never cared to update fans on the issue (unlike the PN producers who promptly tweeted that there is NO change in release date. ) Also kamal, when asked about the tension fans underwent due to UV delay, said that it was just a temporary financial issue. so this in a way means that he is not worried about the money lost on opening or the uncontrollable mad tension we fans went through that day. i was along with karthi, sandiyar and other fans for the whole 1 and half day, in woodlands, and saw the tension of fans for the whole period.

So i have decided that, i will not worry for any one sided news coming about delay / ban for kamal films. only when he responds/informs publicly t fans about a certain problem about release, like how he did for viswaroopam, will i take that issue, as a fan. becos its not black and white, grey areas are there at both sided. we fans whud not waste energy without a point