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When a producer produces a small budget movie, about half the budget is spent on film workers. This means that a movie which can be produced for fifty lakhs today will cost about one crore rupees if the updated rules of FEFSI are followed. The federation puts worth so many rules that are extremely difficult to follow. The federation requires producers to employ people from all the 24 departments of FEFSI irrespective of whether there is actually a job for all the departments. They also insist on employing a minimum number people which may be too much for several movies. Due to these rules, producers are forced to hire more workforce and they are simply relaxing and sleeping during the movie shoots. Is this called justice? Is this the way to work? When there is no job for technicians, the producers are not only forced to hire them, but also pay them wages. Doesn’t it sound like robbery?
These laws knowingly crush people and these laws don't just crush producers, but directors as well. When the creativity of a director is pressurized, it will directly reflect in the quality of the movie. No director can think about directing a movie within fifty lakhs. The movie can't be released in theaters without hiring and employing FEFSI workers.
Such pressures and autocratic laws have already cost a lot of good efforts for the Tamil cinema industry. A number of directors have lost their lives for such laws.
The ideology of cinema has changed drastically. There is no need to go to the theaters to watch movies anymore. Digital cinema is emerging as a leader. Anyone can shoot a movie within one lakh rupees after purchasing a high end digital camera. The dictatorial laws hiding behind the screen of employee welfare should be taken back and everyone will see at least a thousand movies hitting the screen every year. At least five hundred of such movies will be a success. In such a thing happens, everyone in the FEFSI will keep getting jobs all through the year.
With talent and knowledge about cinema, it is possible to produce a movie for a few lakhs. However, if the FEFSI rules and laws are to be followed, the minimal budget for producing a movie will be at least one crore. This situation is totally abnormal as it crushes several interesting movies and directors. The laws that attack the very basic core of creativity in cinema must be uprooted now.
Please don't arrest creators and their creations. Cinema is not to be arrested in a small jar. Open up the world to everyone and you will see the waves of cinema flowing everywhere like Ganges. It will curb the thirst of the entire nation and it will gain attention all over the world. Let the Tamil cinema industry put its best foot forward and reclaim its lost glory.
Director Cheran
(A worker – a dreamer who lives as a director at all times)
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