No ban on Malayalam Movies

Though the two recent superstar movies from Malayalam -'Vencile Vyapari' and 'Oru Marubhoomikatha' didn't open in Tamil Nadu as usual with their Kerala release, the theatre owners in the state maintain that this is not due to the ongoing Mullaiperiyar issue. The exhibitors who says that they do not entertain ban of releases of any films in Tamil Nadu  cites that it is due to the numerous Tamil releases and the release of  the big Tom Cruise movie which led to Malayalam films not getting needed stations in Chennai.

Shafi, the director of the Mammootty movie 'Venicile Vyapari says that his movie didn't open in Tamil Nadu because much of the Malayalee families there will be moving on to Kerala due to year end vacations and Christmas season. And so the B O will not be that much impressive. Shafi is planning to release the movie only the 30th of this month at Chennai.

But there are allegations particularly from the Malayalam Film Distributors' Association that this sudden unavailability of release centres is due to Tamil Nadu's stand on the Mullaiperiyar issue and an unofficial ban imposed on the trade. Director Renjith and V K Prakash are also crying foul, as the later's 'Beautiful has to stop the Chennai screenings after its first week. They are also planning to go for agitations; if the Kerala exhibitors led by Liberty Basheer change the Malayalam movies on theatres by next week end for 'Vikram's new release 'Rajapattai' expected to be on theaters shortly.