Raghu,
where do you live???? Timbuktu, Xanadu or the place they call Utopia??
Lose your illusions baby……….

Cinema.., is being seen as the medium to earn quick money! too much of unregulated/black money operates. guess, you guys wld have read the interview given by one of the “financiers”. He clearly stated everybody knew the interest rate. It was NOT a secret or as if its being shown on
movies.. like getting signature in white paper! c’on most of these producers are educated! and hv good experience.

I was thinking of an option like ESOPs to s/w dudes. Producer/or any one pays money, gets a % of
profit. Actors get 10% or wotever.(apart from a
standard upfront reasonable payment) I guess it
can be shared with other technicians too. Thus,
it can be corporatised! I guess so. Everybody
gets their share of decent money, and a share from
profit!!

Verdict already clear from the movie stills and happenings .

more over kamal’s last hit was several years (not less than 10 years) back.

they can better wind up the movie at this stage after all this nonsense.

Well it’s not just about managing finance & the associated risk…there’s operations mgmt as well. When Kaaja might have willingly offered whatever he did to Kamal for ‘VV’ what about the commitment from the actor’s side to finish it on time??

Without getting specific (as we don’t know the facts)-from the actors’ side,there needs to be empathy for producers- to finish a project in time,for the salary they receive.This’s is clearly lacking in the case of most of the star-actors. I think the ONLY exception was Sivaji Ganesan!!!

Yes, I agree Tamil cinema’s best times were also when the studio-system prevailed!

Cheers
Carnatakam

responsibility

no doubt producers want to make money too! but i dont agree that producers fall prey to actors. i think they fall prey to their own greed for money!

actors have their own brand equity which they sell at the price they think that brand equity should sell for. if one cannot afford to buy a branded pair of jeans for $120, then they should simply stick to the Rs. 1000 newport jeans they can afford! you cannot blame the brand for selling their product at $120 for i am sure they will be buyers clamouring for it. you can only blame the buyer who knowingly writes away his whole paycheck to buy that one pair of jeans.

when are we going to let people take responsibilities for the decisions they make in their lives instead of simply letting them play the blame game for all their failures?? when has one producer ever stood up and said, i made a mistake in miscalculating my appetite for risk and the management of my finances??? nope, all of them point their fingers at convenient scapegoats as if they were extorted at gun point to fork out the money and borrow likewise at exorbitant rates! this is one of the reasons why hollywood is built on a studio system instead of individual producers, for that way the risk can be spread across other areas, making it more palatable!

katz

BTW, LG did you that Khaja categorically denied that Kamal or “Prey and Play” had nothing to do with his suicide attempt?And he did this not once but twice, once before the press and once in Jaya TV.