Now that MACTA is relegated to Malayalam cinema history books, attention has turned to AMMA’s venture T:20. This is a classic tale of hunter becoming the prey a la Drohkaal. Thanks to the antics of the stars, for the cine loving public there is more fun outside the theaters than inside. Usually T:20 matches are over within a few hours, but in this case the filming of T:20 has been happening for more than a year and the reason for delay is simple: star egos.

The shoot of the film is almost over but for the climax. The trouble is that the superstar’s due to their inflated egos are playing a one-man-upmanship game between them. When Mammootty has dates, Mohanlal is unavailable and when both are ready for the shoot Suresh Gopi does not report for the shoot! [Star Egos delay T:20 ]

Ever since the AMMA-MACTA ego issue was resolved, time has come for egos within AMMA to fight it out. The dormant egos are out and are battling it out like political party members. There are various theories to explain this latest tussle. Madampi-Parunthu fight, who gets to dance with Nayantara, inclusion of Prithviraj so on and so forth. This could result in the movie never getting completed or in the split of AMMA into two organizations: AM and MA.

Besides this positive effect, there is one more

This tug of war has been going on for the last three months making producer Dileep (he is producing it on behalf of AMMA) go crazy. Dileep has sworn that he will start his next film only after he completes T:20, which is dragging on like a test match! [Star Egos delay T:20 ]

This means that Dileep might never act in a movie again, which would make lot of viewers happy. Vinayan and Thulasidas might be dancing with glee. Finally if nothing works out, Dileep can fire Joshi as director and invite Vinayan to direct the rest of the movie with Dummies or Dupes. That, is what we would call poetic justice.

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