The powerful Kanchipuram-Thiruvallur District Theatre Owners Association held an emergency meeting on Monday (Aug 18) in Chennai and has demanded that they be compensated for their loss in playing Kuselan.
They have claimed that they lost nearly 75 percent of the MG (Minimum Guarantee) amount they paid to the distributors.
P.Kannappan, Secretary of the association says: "Nearly 300 screens that released Kuselan in Tamilnadu who have paid attractive MG’s has suffered huge losses. We paid huge MG’s, as director P.Vasu, producers Kavithalaya and Seven Arts assured us that it was a full length Rajinikanth film, but we were conned by them"
The association President S.P Palaniappan said: "We have asked Mr. Rajinikanth to intervene and request the producers to pay us for the losses and settle the matter amicably. There is a precedent to it, as he compensated all of us when Baba failed."
The association has decided to boycott all films of Kavithalaya which are under production.
Meanwhile Rajinikanth who has come back from US is trying to sort out the issue, behind the scene. He is willing to pay a part of the compensation package, and is also trying to put pressure on the producers to pay up.
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