Kanguva flopped, Karuppu became a blockbuster. Dragon and Dude were blockbusters, while LIK ended up a flop. The Tamil audience gave the right verdict every single time.
Looking at the statement of Vignesh Shivan, it is clear that filmmakers need to understand a simple truth: to become a hit, a film needs to meet a few core criteria. It must be entertaining, accessible, and completely free of pretentiousness.
You are making movies for the Tamil audience. If you serve something they do not want, you cannot blame them for not liking the food.
If the blockbuster success of Blast teaches us anything, it is to keep it simple and never bore your audience even if you don't have star actors.
Don't blame the viewers or online reviews for the box office result, Vignesh Shivan. Own the verdict.
ALL NINE COPS TO BE HANGED!!!
In a landmark judgement, the honourable First Additional District and Sessions Judge of Madurai, G Muthukumaran pronounced death penalty for all nine policemen in the Jeyaraj and Beniks custodial torture and death case.
Inspector S Sridhar, sub-inspectors P Ragu Ganesh & K Balakrishnan, head constables S Murugan and A Samidurai and constables M Muthuraja, S Veil Muthu, S Chelladurai & X Thomas Francis have all been found guilty of the double murder.
On 19th June 2020, Jeyaraj went to his son’s mobile shop in at Sathankulam in Thoothukudi. Police arrested him for violating Covid rules.
Following the father’s arrest, Beniks went to the police station and requested for his father’s release. Beniks apparently had an argument with the cops. They arrested him also and tortured him and his father through the night and later sent to judicial remand.
Beniks died at Kovilapatti Government Hospital on 22nd June, 2020, and Jeyaraj passed away the next day.
The investigation later revealed that the mobile shop wasn’t open beyond the permissible hours. Basically a false case was slapped.
Later, a female constable, Revathi came forward to tell the truth of their torture. Not only were the son & the father beaten brutally throughout the night but were also made to clean up their blood off the police station floor and walls with their clothes.
Beniks sustained 13 external injuries and Jeyaraj had 17 wounds that ultimately led to their deaths. They were bleeding from their rectums when they were sent to jail!!!
Following a huge social media uproar and protests, there was pressure on the then Tamil Nadu government to conduct a fair investigation into their deaths.
If you go through the whole case, you will realise that 59 year old Jeyraj and 31 year old Beniks were killed purely because the ego of the policemen was hurt.
They were angry that Beniks questioned why his father was arrested and being beaten up.
Family of the victims hope this will be a lesson to all policemen who think they can get away with any crime.
But unfortunately in our country most police don’t play by the rules. It is either their ego or orders from above or corruption that drives them. Hoping for better policing and a system that stands for victims, especially the voiceless ones.
3 years ago, I gave ₹50,000 to a friend.
No agreement, no proof, no second thought… just trust.
He said it was urgent.
He said he’d return it soon.
And I believed him… because he wasn’t just “someone”, he was my friend.
Days passed.
Then weeks.
Then months.
Every time I thought of asking, I stopped myself.
“Maybe he’s still struggling.”
“Maybe this isn’t the right time.”
I kept choosing understanding… over questioning.
But slowly, things started changing.
Replies became late.
Calls became fewer.
Excuses became longer.
And one day… silence became normal.
The same person who once shared everything with me,
started avoiding even a simple conversation.
Not because he didn’t have ₹50K…
But because he didn’t have the intention.
That’s when it hit me—
I didn’t just lose money.
I lost respect for someone I trusted.
I lost a friendship I thought was real.
₹50,000 is not a small amount.
But what hurt more was realizing…
for him, our friendship was worth less than that.
Today, it’s been 3 years.
The money never came back.
And honestly… I stopped expecting it.
Because some debts are not just financial…
They show you the true value of people in your life.
For some people,
your kindness is just an opportunity.
Some Thoughts just as a Lover of CINEMA!!
No theatres for an Low budget Indie film #Salliyargal
Censor delay causing postponement of a Big budget Big Star like Vijay Sir's film #JanaNayagan slated to release tomorrow...
Bookings are yet to open in many centres due to issue of certificate for other Big budget film #Parasakthi slated to release day after tomorrow...
Tough times for Cinema!!
Theatres need to be more supportive for indie low budget films ... Coz Big Satellite & OTT players are not so keen to buy indie films leaving Theatres as only source for revenue for Low budget films.... Not giving theatres for low budget films literally means Killing Cinema !!
For Big budget films... The strict timeline rules for Censors (India & Overseas ) is really hard to follow and puts lot of pressure on Filmmakers creative space during Post Production especially when ur doing a Big budget film with release date already announced... With current timeline rules for both Indian and overseas censors , the ideal time for a film to be fully completed is 3 months before release date... Which is Highly impossible for many reasons...This has to be streamlined and shud be made bit easy for Filmmakers... Both from the board the producers and the Stars... Otherwise postponement of Big films on festivals dates will eventually Kill Industry!!
Please let's all together in Film fraternity keep aside the Fan wars, Political reasoning , Personal agendas, Hate Campaigns & join together to do something optimistic to Save the ART ... Save Cinema 🙏🏻🙏🏻
DeepSeek has been so good for me personally for coding in Reaper so much so it has reduced my stem export time by well over 60% for #Retro and #Sikandar . Great times ahead for AI reasoning and GenAi . So much more can be done and competition is great for creators and users 💥💥💥