Kanguva has grossed lone Rs 89 crore globally successful 7 days. (Image: Studio Green/Facebook)
As 2024 comes to an end, the Tamil movie manufacture finds itself astatine a crossroads, uncertain whether to bid farewell to the twelvemonth with a grin oregon a frown. While the archetypal fractional was comparatively uneventful, the second months saw the merchandise of respective mammoth films, galore of which earned large bucks astatine the container office. However, contempt monolithic earnings, astir of these films faced wide disapproval — often becoming the taxable of memes aft debuting connected OTT platforms. And now, the latest summation to this list, already occupied by “Thalapathy” Vijay’s The Greatest of All Time (GOAT), Rajinikanth’s Vettaiyan and Kamal Haasan’s Indian 2, is manager Siva’s Kanguva, starring Suriya.
Although it arrived amidst overmuch anticipation, the epic phantasy enactment film, mounted connected a reported budget of Rs 350 crore, met with disapproval from each quarters and has managed to gross lone Rs 89 crore globally successful 7 days. Nevertheless, it has secured a spot among the apical 10 highest-grossing Tamil films of the year, a destiny that manager S Shankar’s highly panned Indian 2, starring Kamal Haasan, besides faced.
As the movie continues its downward journey, the Tamil Film Active Producers Association (TFAPA) has attributed its struggles, not to the film’s prime but, to YouTube reviews conducted extracurricular theatres. The relation has called for a prohibition connected specified reviews, claiming they negatively interaction container bureau revenue, Mathrubhumi reported.
In a connection issued successful Tamil, TFAPA described online reviews arsenic “tasteless and hostile.” “Our relation powerfully condemns the caller inclination of idiosyncratic attacks and incitement of hostility nether the guise of movie reviews,” the relation was quoted arsenic saying successful its statement.
Check retired Tamil Film Active Producers Association’s connection connected Kanguva reviews here:
திரைப்பட விமர்சனம் என்கிற பெயரில் தனிமனித தாக்குதல் மற்றும் வன்மத்தை விதைத்தல் – #TFAPA வன்மையாக கண்டிக்கிறது ✍️@offBharathiraja @TGThyagarajan @TSivaAmma @Dhananjayang @prabhu_sr #SSLalitKumar @sureshkamatchi pic.twitter.com/bQ1FMZZdMx
— Tamil Film Active Producers Association (@tfapatn) November 20, 2024
It urged reviewers to absorption exclusively connected the film’s content, steering wide of idiosyncratic remarks astir producers, directors oregon actors. The relation besides took contented with nationalist reviews conducted instantly aft premieres and first-day-first-shows (FDFS), accusing immoderate YouTubers of utilizing sensationalist headlines to gully attention.
“No 1 reviews a edifice by declaring their beingness has been ruined by 1 atrocious meal. If specified utmost comments were made, those restaurants would instrumentality beardown action,” the connection argued, advocating for a much balanced and liable attack to criticism. “Critics person the afloat close to explicit their views, but this indispensable not construe into spreading hatred connected nationalist platforms,” the missive concluded.