Death Imminent for Tamil Film Industry and it is Resisting New Oxygen

Hello World,

If you are from Tamilnadu or even familiar with tamil movies, you should be knowing that the Tamil film industry is not doing so well. Well, let’s just confirm on that and remove the ambiguity on that fact. The films have been getting horrible by the day and most of them resemble the same. Every once in a while, say 1 out of 50 films creates a positive impact on the audience. The rest just struggle to complete the minimum expectation of 3 days in the theaters. Overall, the Tamil film industry is struggling to make the minimum it needs to employ and feed the thousands who have no other career option on hand!

The tough part of the story is that the Tamil film industry refuses to accept the fact and strongly believes in the ever-popular marketing trend of ‘Brainwashing Through Publication’ [sounds familiar??!!] where, in spite of continuous failures, the industry participants will have paid media publications that will claim trivial success states including/similar but not limited to ‘Blockbuster Hit!’ ‘Mass Entertainer Breaks Record!’ ‘[Hero’s Name] Thrills Audience Once Again!’ ‘First day 250000 crore collection, Box Office Buried Under Money!’

If you still believe the films are ok and the industry is doing well, have a look at the exhibits below and think:

Why would one member of the value chain complain on the other if the industry was doing well and the money really flowed in crores? Remember, it is the distributor who is making this claim. Theater owners and distributors are the first groups to realise the revenues from the final customer group, the audience. 

At what point do we admit? I was asked by my family to play a recent Rajini film on amazon prime and the family ended up chatting other topics, getting zoned out from the Rajini movie within 15-20 minutes. I now have a standing instruction not to play anymore Rajini movies. Rajini is done. At what point do we admit?

Instead of embracing variety and enabling new comers, the industry is now going to consider 'budget' and 'star value' of the film. The fact remains that big budget movies with popular stars are bombing everywhere and still the industry is stuck to its ego, largely funded and controlled by the interests of these select rich producers and popular actors. It's their money, it's their films. However, that doesn't not give them the right to waste the audience's time and money!

Yes there have been some viral trailers but popular trailers alone cannot and do not guarantee success for any film. If every film needs vitality on social media, then they are formally accepting that their content sucks and all they can do is cheat the audience to come to the theatres. This is a dangerous trend for the film industry. If sudden emotional response on social media is needed for a film's success, then they are not making proper films. 

Over-abuse of the trailer technique has now resulted in bad trailers becoming a trend. In the mad rush to gain swift emotional response on social media, editors are being forced to cut trailers that are either outright contradictory to the actual film or is just a crude blend of insignificant scenes from the film. The consequence is nothing but bad trailers becoming a trend and now the audience is not willing to trust trailers anymore. There was one thing that served positively for Tamil films and now the industry out of its stupidity has sacrificed that as well.

Why would the support/service providers migrate to other film industries? Simply put, there is not much spending on their services and this means the film industry now has moved on to other 'better options.' However, if the industry is struggling, what is the point of migrating to 'better methods'??!!? You stopped purchasing a certain thing for your films and the vendors now moved on to other industries and still your films are flopping one after the other. So you are not making money and the others are also not making any money.How on earth is the Tamil film industry alone flourishing??!!?

If footfalls are dropping for big films and distributors are unwilling to pay 'Minimum Guarantee', how would any sane human with a tiny bit of rational sense will believe the lie that Tamil Film Industry is flourishing with hits and profits??!! 

Read the above exhibit carefully again. It is not GST and instability causing the problems and 'films failing' is a pre-existing condition that the Tamil Film Industry is struggling to cope up with and the new tax regime and political instability is just exaggerating the problem. The industry needs to stop worrying about tase and politics and just focus on making good movies that do not fail. One trick is to stop doing what it is doing right now and rethink the art of filmmaking. If something has been the same for 50 years, it is about time, the industry realises that 50 years is long enough. 

I am not the only one after all. There so many bloggers writing their sad stories covering their experience with very bad Tamil Films. People do not watch a film because so many others watch it. People watch films when many others say they watched the film and it is good. Is the 'attention span' of the Tamil film industry so small that it can't wait until the second half of that idea hits their brain??!!? 

Highest grosser but NO PROFIT!!! When 'NO PROFIT' is unavoidable, why use 'Highest Grosser' and raise the level of the bulshit??!!? It is now beyond unbearable to see flops being glorified as mass masala money minting schemes!!! If the production house is afraid of producing another big budget and if the same company has produced back to back big budget films, it only means that select criminal-minded filmmaking groups have used popular actors as the front face and cheated them of their money, promising international blockbusters. The result is the same what happened with the american cd rental company Blockbuster. Out of business and nobody cared!

'Content being good' is something the Tamil Film Industry is struggling to get its head around. The addiction to 'PAKKA MASS' 'VERA LEVEL MASALA' 'JANARANJAGAM' 'SIZZLING STAR-STUDDED FILM'  and 'MASS ENTERTAINER' has rendered the brains of Tamil film industry dead and incapable of delivering films that can be accepted as films. The craze for enabling the rich and influential, disregarding the creative talent, is what is keeping Tamil film industry in a brain-dead coma.

When the big films are failing what is wrong in letting the smaller ones access the screens/theaters the same way? By blocking the small budget films, the big ones gain no real advantage. Tamil film industry needs to understand that entertainment is not a zero sum game. Others' loss can never be your gain. That thing can happen only when two really good film makers release their films the same date and that too will even out over time. If something is good, people will come for it and the clash will cause a delay. At what point will the Tamil film industry learn this simple fact??!!

Overall, it is just failure after failure and most of the failures involve popular, trending film-stars. The distributors hate minimum guarantees, the producers are unwilling to fund big budget projects, the trailers are getting worse and the audience is suffering!! 

The Tamil Film Industry is struggling to get its basics right and is still focused on marketing gimmicks and promotional campaigns for what is otherwise the worst piece of films which in many cases are an insult to the engaging and entertaining art form call Film-Making!!!

A what point do we admit??!!

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SAVE TAMILNADU: ENGINEERING EDUCATION IS KILLING IT

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Tamilnadu’s engineering education is in great danger as of now. When I joined engineering in 2002, I knew I was into something from a few centuries in the past with very little to do with whatever I had to do post graduation. I was young and fairly inexperienced and so I wasn’t able to figure out the whole nonsense in detail. I was however absolutely sure I was in a game that was rigged to fail while dragging my career along with it.

After a decade-plus time from that, today, I am able to connect the dots backward and what I have is a disturbingly dark story that I wasn’t too far from figuring out when I was a student.

In the interest of time, let’s cut to the chase.

Have a look at these news items:

So, 40% of engineering colleges are filling a total of 10 seats or less. Over a lakh engineering seats are left vacant as the demand for engineering seats has taken a nose dive. Teaching faculty are hoping for a salary appraisal. National level engineering education controller organisation is allowing artisan science courses in engineering disciplines.

Here is the story on either side of the news items you saw above. 

Candidates from engineering colleges of Tamilnadu are being defeated by students from other engineering institutes in the country in the interviews conducted for jobs in Chennai [based on my personal observation]. Candidates from engineering colleges in Tamilnadu who do end up getting the entry level positions, are, for the most part, from states other than Tamilnadu [they get their schooling done elsewhere and come with an edge]. This might seem like there is something unfair going on and you are not entirely wrong by assuming so. It is the engineering education that is being sold at sky high prices to the students of Tamilnadu that is the basis for this horror designed against Tamilnadu’s engineering students/graduates.

In the name of ‘BASICS/FUNDAMENTALS’, engineering colleges in Tamilnadu are selling outdated crap worth INR 4.50 [at best] to a large segment of eager youth. Remember, they are paying in lakhs, after paying in the same amount for their seat as well. Their tuition fees, for the most part, comes from educational loans which operate on average 14.5% compound interest which means, starting from the 7th month post graduation, the engineering graduate needs to start paying the loan back and missing which will force an interest on the interest and the snowballing effect will swallow the graduate and his/her family.

The format of education is another horror happening within these colleges where the students are directed to stay away from anything other than their textbooks/syllabus. They are discouraged from participating in anything the students might fancy making a hobby of. This results in the students graduating from engineering remembering about 3 formulae, 2 equations in the second order and a few foreign names referring to compatibility conditions or some other related procedures. These graduates tend to talk like telegrams: few words, assumed hyphens and filler words that don’t mean a thing. The result is that the interviewer is forced to do a PhD to understand what this engineering graduate from Tamilnadu is trying to say. Add in a cultural element of encouraging youngsters to do everything with confidence and we have these engineering graduates lying with confidence or declaring themselves unfit by confidently giving out incorrect answers assuming, they will win with their confidence. 

Students are being forced to believe they need to master SOFTWARE PACKAGES if they should become eligible for jobs. That is true for very few jobs and even those jobs involves them going through on job training after they join. There is a huge market thriving on this fake demand being created by carefully installing software names in the official syllabi of courses [the university is the culprit helping this racket]. 

Everyone cannot know everything at all times. This needs to be installed or say buried in the heads of professors, HoD’s, lecturers of engineering colleges in Tamilnadu. The students will also need this medicine through their 8 semesters. They need to be advised: “It is ok if you don’t know something. Just say so.” The syllabus is just beyond repair. It will be anywhere between 350-400 years before that will be revised. Meanwhile, the students can better trust Google and learn their engineering and its applications on their own using the internet. Apart from learning their trade from the internet, they should also make it a practice of working towards a hobby of their choice such as [including but not limited to] blogging, drama, reading, film-making etc.  

Engineering graduates from Tamilnadu need to learn the art of articulating their views without ambiguity in the simplest format so anyone can understand what they are saying. If you have to say “Everyone cannot understand this” then you don’t know your shit right and you are just bluffing. Knowing, understanding, applying are very different games within any trade and engineering is no exception. 

As for the laminated cardboard the graduates get after clearing the 60+ exams, its only purpose at this point is: proof of eligibility and course completion. There might be some idiots saying, the chairman of the college was a rowdy but he delivers good product out of his engineering college. That is schizophrenia left untreated and at this point, there are a few lakhs of those patients roaming around in and around Tamilnadu.

If we are going to ignore this problem further, 10 years from now, all chain snatchers will be engineering graduates from Tamilnadu. Even then, those criminals will take pride in their engineering course and say the companies did not hire them. The fact is, this engineering nonsense administered in Tamilnadu is systematically rendering the graduates unfit for employment to most modern day jobs. 

Given the current circumstances, even if some company decides to favour engineering graduates from Tamilnadu, they will still not find candidates for all of their positions. They have to depend on graduates from other states and institutes from outside of Tamilnadu. Try discussing this with a HR and you will face much darker facts about this issue.

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SURGICAL STRIKES: FOOLISHNESS, FANTASY AND FANFARE

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Also refer to: 

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/437607-pm-imran-khan-to-address-the-nation-shortly



It is a great embarrassment that India is going through with its Air Force pilot being captured and held under arrest while India is looking to retrieve him safe and sound.

Thanks to the Pakistan government for sparing our pilot's life. It must have caused so much friction within the Pakistani administration as not delivering the ultimate damage might be perceived by the Pakistani population as 'weak government.' What Pakistan government has done so far is commendable and they are the winners at this point in time. In spite of having our pilot under arrest, the Pakistani PM has invited India for peace negotiations.

We need to look into this from a different perspective as well.

Pakistani leadership claims they offered a joint probe to look into JeM camps/involvement related to Pulwama attack. They are offering a negotiation for a second time as per their claim. 

If the JeM locations and their relation to the Pulwama attack was offered to Pakistan and Pakistan had denied any effort in that direction, a preemptive strike would have been a justified consequence. 

It took a full day to acknowledge one of our pilots is in their custody. Nobody's disagreeing with the Pakistani leadership that no such offer was received or placed from the other end. 

The questions still remain: 

1. Why would a country enter another's territory without asking for a voluntary participation from the host country? 

2. Have we (India) documented a strict no-response or decline of any such offer from Pakistani side before the surgical strike on JeM installations were conducted?

3. Does anyone know the name and nationality of the suicide bomber who attacked the CRPF convoy in Pulwama? Can that fact be shared? 

[Please note this part of the discussion is being deliberately avoided by all stakeholders?]

If your patriotism still insists you see this as a victory for India, please consider the approach below:

Have a look at this:

Now have a look at these questions:

1. Will anyone in their senses ever explicitly divulge such details of lack of ammunition, for the sake of new defence contracts/budget allocation??!!

2. When extreme situations demand we divulge such military deficiencies and we give in, would we, in our senses ever consider surgical strikes in someone else's territory??!!

3. Did we not violate Pakistan's sovereignty when we conducted strikes in their territory without their express approval?

BOTTOM LINE:

India infringed upon Pakistan's sovereignty by unlawfully entering its territory to conduct surgical strikes on what it claims to be JeM camp(s). However, Pakistan retaliated  with caution, targeting only military installations and made sure no casualty occurred. Pakistan shot down Indian aircraft, arrested Indian pilot and still is insisting India sit with it at a negotiation table to talk things out amicably. It could have targeted civilian locations and caused much harm. It could have killed the Indian pilot and could have covered it up claiming Indian pilot died in combat. Pakistan is still claiming it invited India for a joint effort and is insisting India joins it for peaceful negotiations. 

PAKISTAN WON. INDIA LOST.

AT WHAT POINT DO WE ADMIT??!!?

Hoping Wing Commander Abhinandhan returns home safe and sound. 

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/437607-pm-imran-khan-to-address-the-nation-shortly

Update as of 28th Feb, 2019, 6pm IST:

Pakistan has agreed to release Abhinandan tomorrow. Pakistan has taken a bold step towards positive bilateral relations where the rivalry can get an extended means beyond the battlefield to discuss and sort out differences over territorial conflicts.

All through this game, Pakistan had the lead, leverage and the advantage. In spite of it, it had done the right thing. As an Indian, I respect the decision taken by the Pakistani administration including their PM Imran Khan and the military leaders working along with him. The account book is too big and dripping with blood for dropping an opportunity to draw blood. Pakistan did it anyway. This makes Pakistan stronger than India.

For some reason even Pakistan PM seems more legit and sensible than my own.

It is about time India uses real brains [the fake assertive nationalist ones took us into this losing game].

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WARRIOR CLANS IN INDIAN HISTORY: ACTUAL THUGNESS AND IMPACT ON THE NATION

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Have you ever wondered how the 'warrior clans' in India valiantly did nothing but compromise with the invaders over and over again just so they can maintain their 'Ruling Class Status'??

Yes, there had been a few skirmishes and may be an ambush or two.

However, if you notice closely, the warrior clans were there when the first group of invaders came. The warrior clans remained in power when the first group of invaders ruled India. 

Then came the next group of invaders. The great warrior clans of India continued to exist in their power. Something happened and they bravely fought the second group of invaders. Guess what??!!? The warrior clans survived again and continued to be in power while the second group of invaders ruled India, this time, for more than a century.

Fast forward to now, the greatest of warrior clans are renting out their mahals as traditional palatial hotels for exquisite flavour connoisseurs of the western world from where their masters alias the second group of invaders came.

In spite of this glaring fact staring into our eyes, we choose to believe in the fantasy of warrior clans fighting for our nation and sacrificing their lives for our freedom.

Thinking straight, it is obvious that the actual freedom fighters  were a different breed of selfless revolutionaries to whom we owe everything our democratic civil rights provides us today.

If the warriors remained as rulers during and after invaders' rule, aren't they really 'COMPROMISE CLANS'??!!!

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Organised Genocide Approaching South India: The Fear of Modi Administration's Onslaught on Southern States

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There is a dangerous political trend sabotaging our country as we speak. Whatever is happening under the leadership of Modi is carefully destroying India. If you care to look into the why/how parts of the fact, please read on. 

I belong to those regions where the PM has deliberately decided to ignore people' welfare just because his party can never win an election here. We in this part [South India] are desperately waiting for this government to leave so anything else can deliver a safe environment for us. We are not in a position to choose a specific group based on any political orientation. We consider anything instead of the current administration. Such is the state of our desperation.

It is incredibly disheartening to see carefully misled interpretations enabling the glorification of what might be the most tyrannical rule ever in the history of India. We will face the heat from this for the next few decades.

For example, please refer to the document in the URL below and search for 'forest cover':

https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/es2014-15/echapvol1-10.pdf

It will take you to page-3 where in the table you will see that 'Forest Cover' is being given 7.5% weightage in the formula that decides ow much federal money a state would get. Just so I make it clear, the government has decided, the state with more forest cover will get more money. However, the government has asked the states to remove forests to help establish federal projects and guess what, it is the southern states who had to remove forest cover to support government programs.

Have you ever seen any administration decide fund allocation to states based on forest cover? Do you really think, in a developing nation such as India, where people are struggling for 2 square meals a day, such forest-cover based fund allocation will do any good?

Here is the fun trivia. try googling 'Top Indian states with forest cover' and you will see the states where the Indian PM's political party has/had the state government.

So, someone who holds the federal government decided the states where his party leads will get more money and they tweaked the formula accordingly. The leader of such a federal government is being praised. It can't get more cruel.

On behalf of all of south India, I beg you to stop enabling the organized genocide we South Indians are living with the fear of under the current government.

Please forgive me if my words hurt your feelings or insulted you or your interests in anyway. This blog post is probably one of the last resort efforts from taxpayers of a country who do not have any more hope of equal coexistence under Modi's leadership.

I would like to create an opportunity for you get your own perspective, not necessarily being guided by my views. Please read the following news items below from popular, fairly credible news media. 

If you read the news in sequence, you will see something odd jumping out. I will let you interpret this further:

https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/germany-to-help-india-clean-ganga-says-took-30-years-45-bn-euros-to-clean-rhine/1297562/

https://indianexpress.com/article/india/rs-7000-crore-spent-on-ganga-in-two-years-without-improvement-national-green-tribunal-4749280/

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/rs-3-000-crore-statue-of-unity-of-sardar-patel-in-gujarat-to-be-ready-for-inauguration-on-october-31_-339667.html

https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/kerala-floods-state-asks-rs-1220-cr-immediate-relief-centre-gives-rs-100-cr-86479

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/kerala-floods-pm-modi-announces-rs-500-cr-relief-fund-conducts-aerial-survey-of-affected-areas/videoshow/65448901.cms

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/tamil-nadu-given-rs-353-crore-for-gaja-relief-says-union-minister/story-8e6u5I6NUSjAQYNfZ1RwoK.html

Questions, as a taxpayer, I have are:

When a country takes a loan from another, the entire populations has to repay the loan (with interest) using their tax contribution. 

1. When everyone has to repay the loan, why is the loan being spent on a river that touches just 5 out of 29 states? Why should a government take a loan on India's name when all the Indians do not get an equal share of the benefit of the expenditure that uses the loan? [try looking up which states and you will see a all-north trend]

The country is reeling in poverty and unemployment and struggling to have enough infrastructure and employment. 

2. Why should the taxpayer's money be spent on an expensive statue? [The statue is built in the state where Modi served as Chief Minister]

The government under Modi had the capacity to take a loan and clean a river that touches just 5 out of 29 states. The government had spent several thousands of crores on the Ganga Rejuvenation project so far. 

The government had the capacity to allocate 3000 crores for a statue.

However, the government did not have the funds for supporting the relief measures for two flood hit states. Guess what, both of them are southern states. 

The states requested immediate relief measuring in thousands of crores and they got in hundreds. 

3. What crime did the south do against Modi and his government that his government prioritized river clean-up and statue over rescue and rehabilitation of its own citizens? 

A statue can get 3000 crores but a state stuck in floods begged for 1220 crore and it was given 100 crores initially and then another 500 crores. 

The government under Modi spent over 4000 crores in advertisement in 4 years. 

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-four-years-modi-govt-spent-over-rs-4-300-crore-on-publicity-rti-shows/story-InEz7kP27hlA5ym9BzAxwI.html

The government has the money to support Bhutan. 

https://www.businesstoday.in/top-story/pm-narendra-modi-announces-rs-4500-crore-assistance-to-bhutan/story/305138.html

Nobody is against offering help to neighbors in need. However, how come a government has funds for a foreign country but not for its own tax paying citizens when they are hit by natural disasters [flood/cyclone]?

There is much more to this and every piece of information just confirms the deliberate effort to ignore the south. 

Imagine you live in South India and you see all this happening.

Can 'tolerating unfair treatment of citizens in governance' amount for anything positive? Is this leadership?

We in the south are living in a state of fear as to what else is ready to descend upon the south as we are having the election this coming May.

Please do not agree with me. Please look up those news items. Think how you would feel if you were at the receiving end of such organized unfair treatment. You decide what we in the south are going through. 

I may be alive but I do know many of my fellow citizens in the south have lost their lives to poverty, natural disaster and unfair educational policies and all Modi did was watch. 

Indian citizens in South India are suffering and Modi and his majority voters all over the country are watching.

I see this trend as nothin less than a carefully organised, legal-looking, genocide against South India under the leadership of Modi. 

If you have read this post until here, it means you received more feedback than Modi did in all the 4+ years since 2014. 

South India needs to recognise the genocide being executed against it under Modi's leadership. 

While South India has not much left in terms of hope, the only thought possible right now is:

Hopefully the Indian citizens in North/East/West India got something positive. If we are losing losing much, there must be someone out there who must have gained from our loss. If not, then the whole nation is approaching an abrupt end under Modi's leadership.

Again, do not believe or agree with me. Think about it. There should be some sense, rational thought, logic and humanity left around in India in spite of the tyrannical Modi Administration.

This is a time of organised destruction, at least for South India and there is not much South India can do. Hoping South India escapes the genocide waiting to happen under Modi's leadership.

Given that you had the patience to scroll to this end of this post, I would invite you to watch the comedy/satire show in Tamil language run by Summa Productions on Youtube. This show covers the other aspects of the argument presented above. Please share this post if you think this will help anyone in any way. 

Check out some more posts below if you find this interesting:

http://crazymotts.blogspot.com/2018/12/why-modi-will-win-again-in-2019.html

http://crazymotts.blogspot.com/2019/01/justification-of-caste-based.html

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