Tamil Film Producers' Bharathiraja asks industry members paid over 10 lakh to take 30% cut

President of Tamil Film Active Producers Association - veteran director Bharathiraja on Monday, October 19 - took to Twitter to send out an open letter for all A-list actors and technicians of Tamil film fraternity. In his letter, Bharathiraja has urged all members to accept a 30% pay cut in order to allow film producers to restart projects that had been halted owing to COVID-19 pandemic. In his tweet, he appealed to those who get a salary more than 10 lakh to help ors in this time of need.

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Bharathiraja’s open letter

An Appeal to All Actors & Technicians who are getting a salary more than Rs.10 lacs to reduce 30% in ir payment due to this pandemic impact and help Producers to release ir films.

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In letter shared by him, he requests everyone to take responsibility in this precarious situation. Citing films that were under production amid nationwide shutdown, he claims that producers are having difficulty in managing ir projects. Bharathiraja made an attempt to explain it to his fellow acquaintances of industry using statistics. He wrote,

In this situation, it is responsibility of all actors and technicians to come forward and help producers, whose films are under production and are stuck due to this lockdown. producers can man to come out of this trying condition and release ir films smoothly, only if ir total investment in films is reduced by at least 40 to 50%. Only n, even if ir films do t fetch big revenues, y can come out without much loss.

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letter also articulates how Telugu and Malayalam film industries are following same process for gaining efficiency. His entreaty only include films that were ‘under production’. His furr states,

We are making this request only for films which were under production and are stuck due to Covid-19 and t for new films, which you are signing and commencing, for which you and producers may decide on appropriate remuneration. For films, which were stuck for over 6 months due to this pandemic, we are making this request 

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