Sunday, April 26, 2020

No rations or money for Movie trackers - YouTube reviewers ?

Film scribes in Chennai are a neglected lot of people. No Superstar or Super heroine has come forward to give any food rations or financial assistance to  any scribe in distress over Covid 19. The fans of the actors have been fighting about the amount of money given to kitty of CM- PM - FEFSI etc, no one has asked whether the movie trackers on Twitter and the You Tube reviewers  are in need of any money as there is no material to propagate, Almost 90% of the film scribes are without any job security. It means no employment letter. Most of them are owners of this  media which is either a blog , a website which runs on PRO;s mercy. Now that there are no films releasing, the movie trackers who used to be fed money to make a dud into a safe proposition and a an average at BO to be member of Rs 100 cr club  are worst hit. As they were  giving BO figures that are not authenticated by either the producer- distributor or theater,, for  a change they are getting certified figures of COVID 19 admissions, those who died and one;s who escaped. So they have moved from movie tracker to Covid tracker.
The YouTube reviewers made a killing out of the paid reviews and the FDFS reports that had the crew of the film come out of theaters and gush into the mike that the film is a must watch. All this has dried up. Some have switched to talking about old hits and it makes sense as TV channels are airing them.
Now all those who thrived on `exclusive' coverage of audio release are affected. If there are many feature film camera's lying idle, there is more number of mobile camera in the cupboard. Now lets move to PRO's. They are yet to be part of FEFSI. Now Mathioli Raaja a PRO turned TV producer and news channel owner managed to raise food grains etc from producers like Dhanu to give it to PRO's who are in need.
The question here is Why does not actors donate for welfare of Film Journalists ? Is it because that there is no unified body to represent them or that the equation works between the actor and scribe on a personal basis or that all you need is a PRO and a budget and need not bother about building a personal relationship ? The State Government announced a Rs 3000 aid to all accredited journalists. As some who are told to work home and those who always worked from home, have to keep their pipeline going. With no idea as to how to clear the backlog of release, these scribes are talking about  an actor who is in deep trouble financially taking over a project or a producer announcing sequels

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