There is no shortage of quixotic ideas for saving Malayalam movie industry. Here’s the latest one:
The worried Malayalam film industry has now decided to seek the Chief Minister’s help to save the film industry. Mammootty had met the Chief Minister recently and had given him a detailed petition listing the problem.
They want the state government to impose special taxes for non-Malayalam films that are being screened in the state.[Threat from outside ]
On top of this, there are reports in many publications about superstars(M&M) planning to avoid competition by not releasing their movies at the same time. Tamil and Hindi movie distributors can scuttle this move by contacting Pinarayi Vijayan.
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[...] Faced with competition on their home turf and on the realization that people have the freedom to watch movies in other languages, our film makers have petitioned the Chief Minister to impose special taxes on non-Malayalam movies. Earlier Director Vinayan had come up with a proposal for a ban on superstar movies so that smaller movies will run. The trend in Kerala is to ban everything so that vested interests can peddle their mediocre wares. [...]