Chennai,
The Tamil Movie Producers Affiliation in an announcement launched immediately mentioned:-
All journalists have the fitting to criticize the mass flaws of movies. But it surely shouldn’t solely be concerning the movie, however we strongly condemn the usage of movie criticism by some media in latest occasions as a device for private assaults on the producer, director, and protagonist of the movie and to vent their hatred in direction of them within the public house.
Our affiliation considers movie trade critics as an act of complete destruction of the movie trade by criticizing and making particular person assaults in a manner that destroys the movie as an entire, not solely by telling the mass of flaws of a movie like a scale. Our affiliation condemns the journalists who’re doing so.
Everybody has a singular opinion a few film. Critics ought to chorus from presenting their views to the general public as common. Many individuals (together with the viewers) who’re speaking a lot {that a} movie has cheated us, we’re seeing so many injustices, violations and frauds taking place round us. We contemplate it an injustice that many individuals are speaking a few film for 3 hours not solely as leisure, however as if it has accomplished injustice to all the society.
Critics have each proper to evaluate films. However we request all journalists to do movie opinions preserving in thoughts that hatred in direction of a movie shouldn’t be sown within the media as a consequence of private malice.
We hope that the journalists who dwell by this cinema trade will at the very least right themselves and criticize in a correct method.
On the identical time, outdoors the theaters, many YouTube channels are recording viewers feedback after the primary day of the film, encouraging cross-border viewers suggestions and posting it often, taking such feedback to a worldwide degree because the collective opinion of all viewers. Very reprehensible.
Lately, everybody was shocked to see a giant man within the identify of “Ganguwa” evaluate, private assaults outdoors a theater and spewing fury. We strongly condemn the YouTube channels that recorded such feedback and took them to the general public on a big scale.
Have you ever ever eaten at a restaurant and if the meals was not good, has anybody come out and talked about that restaurant within the media as if it ruined their life? If they’d talked like that, would they’ve left the lodge alone? Not solely on the lodge, however on the place the place you purchase or use any product, should you do not prefer it, you’ll take it civilly and discover a answer.
After the strategy of listening to the opinion of the viewers outdoors the theaters and recording it on YouTube channels, many viewers (Viewers) are attempting to achieve reputation by speaking about themselves as movie trade nerds to achieve reputation by means of such movies, as if some movie has disturbed their complete peace. A number of YouTube channels are selling them as they’re properly conscious of the affect their discuss can have on the movie. They publish and popularize such concepts instantly with out doing any sort of enhancing.
It’s crucial for everybody concerned within the movie trade to right away cease these actions which can be destroying the movie trade as an entire.
Tamil Nadu Theater Homeowners Affiliation President Tirupur Subramaniam introduced immediately that every one theater house owners in Tamil Nadu shouldn’t permit any YouTube Channel to interview viewers/followers about new films, not solely within the theater premises, but in addition close by.
We request all theater house owners to right away ban this development of turning the viewers into people who find themselves indignant on the movies and people concerned in them within the identify of Public Assessment/Public Discuss.
Additional, we want to put it on report that our affiliation will take all efforts to take strict authorized motion in opposition to these individuals/followers who interact in private assaults, incitement of hatred by means of media with out morally criticizing the movies. We hope the viewers/followers will understand how their bigoted feedback are affecting the movie trade in a giant manner and can at the very least give their criticisms in a accountable method any further.
On this 12 months 2024, Indian 2, Vediyaan and Ganguwa films have been closely influenced by YouTube Channels by means of Public Assessment/Discuss. It’s crucial that every one the associations associated to the movie trade unite and cease this follow by not encouraging them anymore.
As a primary initiative, we request all theater house owners to ban followers’ interviews on their premises and any YouTube Channel close to the premises and cooperate in withdrawing this FDFS Public Assessment/Discuss follow altogether.
That is said in it.