Kamal charges Rs1 crore per day - Rs 1 lakh advance to buy car - AMMA makes cash of its meeting

Kamal Haasan would be paid Rs 1 crore per day for a 9-9 call sheet by the makers of Pan Indian film Project K starring Prabhas , Amitabh and Deepika Padukone. The makers have asked 30 days call sheet but might extend by 10 more days. Sources say that Rs 1 crore per day system used by Akshay Kumar is now adapted by Kamal in South. Meanwhile the trade analysts figures and Adipurush makers official figures show a variation of Rs 100 crores. According to trade experts the ten-day figures stand at Rs 350 crores but the makers official poster puts it at Rs 450 crores. Going by the theatrical release for Telugu , the number of screens and shows, the film has to collect full houses for two weeks in both Andhra States to get break even figure of Rs 320 crores as it was sold for Rs 190 crores. From fourth day onwards, the film slid down badly. Hindi version in fact did better as the opening was third best after SRK Pathan and KGF 2. However, it started to slide and trade puts the figure at Rs 111 cr net and says that it is below Ranbir Kapoor film Tu Jhoothi Main Makkar. Kamal Haasan was in the news yesterday for gifting a car to Coimbatore first lady bus driver who quit her job as bus driver of a private transport company. Kanimozhi MP boarded the bus to give the driver Sharmila , a pat . A checking official who is a lady asked Kanimozhi and her PA to show the tickets. Sharmila took objection to this. Kanimozhi and her PA had tickets with them. Sharmila took the bus to the office and told the owner about this action by bus ticket checker. Sharmila says that the owner told her father who accompanied her to take the daughter and go away and termed it a publicity stunt. She handed over the keys and came out. Sharmila’s father said that Kamal gave Rs 1 lakh cheque as advance and told them to buy a car and was not handed any car keys as reported by media.

Malayalam Actors Body known as AMMA general body meeting held every last Sunday of June every year took place. For the first time, streaming rights for the meeting was given to a You Tube Channel for Rs 10 lakhs. For Rs 5 lakhs there was a bid to cover the entry point only. The actual meeting was allowed to be covered. Outcome of the meeting was Producer’s body had withdrawn the ban on Shane Nigam. His film RDX is releasing in Tamil and Malayalam. AMMA used to stream the event on their You Tube channel and it was not live. Later AMMA decided to not engge in any social media activities. The cost for AMMA GM cost Rs 20 lakhs. It was expected that Shammi Thilakan expulsion matter would come at the GM meeting but it did not happen. The channel that streamed the event got 25 K views and two sponsors.