Blootics

Nothing went well for Rajini and Kuselan team right from it first day of release. It all started when Rajini gave a apologizing statement to karnataka pro activists. He spoiled his great image in TamilNadu by doing so. Also, it seems the movie is not doing good as expected. Its not the problem with Rajini. Production house kavitalaya reportedly gave false impressions about the movie, lured the film distributors and sold the movie for hefty money.

Rajnikant has reportedly promised Rs.100 million compensation to distributors of his box office flop Kuselan even as exhibitors raised the banner of revolt against him on Monday after losing a lot of money. “Over 375 cinemas have lost heavily due to the film being a disaster. We have announced a movement of non-cooperation against ‘Kuselan’ producers K. Balachander and Seven Arts International, and are meeting on Aug 23 to chalk out our plans with regard to Rajnikant”, S. Palaniappan, head of a distributors’ body, told reporters on Monday evening.

“The loss will cross over Rs.250 million in the short term, unless adequate remedial measures are initiated by the actor, who has immensely benefited out of our labours in the past. We were taken for a ride by the producers who claimed it was a full length Rajnikant film, which it was not”, Palaniappan added. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the distribution company Pyramid Saimira, which is showing the film across Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, said the movie had so far collected Rs.210 million since its release on Aug 1. He expressed confidence about ‘Kuselan’ covering the costs of Rs.600 million before being taken off theatres.

Saimira however, was noncommittal about accepting the compensation and did not react to the allegations made by the other distributors and exhibitors. Sources close to Rajnikant told us that the thespian’s “fabled munificence will ensure that none would be out of pocket”. While the star did not charge any fee from the Tamil producer and his mentor K. Balachander, the Telugu version’s producers had paid Rajnikant a fee of Rs.100 million.

The movie icon had on Friday recommended several cuts to improve the collections of the movie. The matinee idol had underwritten the losses of his earlier flop ‘Baba’ (2005) to the tune of over Rs.250 million and helped distributors and exhibitors stage a smart recovery through his subsequent release Chandramukhi (2005) which created box office history. ‘Chandramukhi’ ran for 800 consecutive days in Shanti Cinema, owned by the company that produced the film in the heart of the city - breaking the 64-year-old record created by ‘Haridas’ (1944).