DMK to hit back at Kollywood for Kalaignar 100 Fiasco

Kollywood top bosses are now bracing up for an Andhra CM Jagan kind of approach that will come soon from the Stalin regime. The Kalaignar 100 marketed as mother of all Star shows turned out to be the mother of washout of all functions. Trade bodies expect request to increase number of shows and ticket rates will not happen. Increase in ET tax by local bodies, hike in public shooting charges and permissions for conducting film functions in open grounds would be hard to get. Active Producers Association pushed to background by Film Producers Council and FEFSI are having the last laugh. Arrangements were so shoddy that Nayanthara who came in her latest custom built Rolly Royce was made to travel with few supporting actors in a batter operated pickup vans to cart STARs from parking lot to venue Despite Selvamani and Murali and their coterie working overtime, Gokulam Gopalan of Gokulam Movies was given the PRIDE of place as he was the main sponsor. Stalin announcement open a State of Art Film City near Gokulam Studios in Poonamalee road could have come as a shocker to Gopalan or is State Government going to go for JV with Gopalan ? Thalapathy Vijay and AK aka Ajith are on the on the same page. This was evident by both not turning up at the Kalaignar 100 function in Chennai. One of the main fund contributors for the event was Gokulam Gopalan of Gokulam films and for that `service’ he heard TN CM Stalin say that a hi-tech Film City will ccome up near his Studios in Poonamalee Road. Tamil Nadu Producers Council Murali and FEFSI Selvamani in association with Tamil Directors Association were the event managers. As Ajith posted pixs of him in Dubai with family and then he going solo to Azerbhaijan and his family catching a flight to Chennai on January 5th late night sealed the answer to question onhis turning up at Kalaignar 100. Murali Ramaswamy asked AGS to make schedules to accommodate Vijay to be in Chennai on January 6th. To top it, it was a no shooting day as FEFSI announced it. Vijay was in Chennai and as there was no shooting, he decided to take time to be with his political party members. After the slipper throwing incident at Captain’s funeral, Vijay has decided that he would not stir out without his bodyguards. On that day, he had on the spur of the moment made a dash to see Captain’s body and got a taste of mob fury. Apart from that he did not want to be seen endorsing Kalaignar in public and his political philosophy as it looked like bowing to DMK pressure. In his last public address to fans he listed out names of leaders whose writings written by them should be read and it did not include Kalaignar. Thirdly the invite mentioned Rajini and Kamal and had no mention about him. Thirdly, his Makkal manram was told that they were unwelcome and could come in as public through general entry but with no fan photos or flags. So without Cheerleaders why comes for a function ? Ajith was In Dubai and he celebrated his daughter birthday and left for work in Azerbhaijan. As he was not interested in being a component to boost TRP of Kalaignar TV and his past footprints showing him to be more associated with AMMA, it would look kind of embarrassing to wax eloquent on Kalaignar and his family that is carrying the legacy now. In short Ajith and Vijay for reasons of their own and the circumstances surrounding them has in their actions said that no strong arm twisting through trade bodies can change their minds. It signaled the end of days when Stars were at mercy of the two TV channels that dictated terms if their political bosses were in power.