To honor M Venkaiah Naidu, Union Minister of Information and Broadcasting, a special event was conducted by the Tamil Film Producer’s Council at the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce on Sunday. Kalaipuli S Thanu appealed to the central government to to strengthen the Chennai censor office, which is understaffed and less equipped to manage more films.
“Chennai remains the hub of many South Indian films. Against 100-150 films censored a year a few years back, today Chennai censor office censors over 300 films a year. Yet, we have a small censor office with limited employees, with heavy work load. We appeal to the Minister to increase the infrastructure facilities and officers at Chennai censor office to reduce the workload and faster issuance of censor certificates,” said Thanu.
Thanu also requested the centre to construct more screens to combat piracy. “The lack of sufficient cinema screens is motivating the people to watch films through piracy. Today, piracy eats away 40 to 50% of the revenues, which should have rightfully come to the Producers. Many research reports indicate that we are losing almost Rs.18,000 crore due to piracy in India. Tamil film industry loses more than Rs.1,000 crore every year due to piracy. If the Central Government supports and takes strong action, this piracy menace can be greatly controlled. Like you have initiated to control the pornography websites availability into India, we request you to set up a separate cell and block all the Internet servers and online websites offering our films illegally across the globe. As the internet and telecommunication comes under the Central government purview, unless your government takes up strong initiatives to curb piracy by blocking all such illegal internet servers and websites, the piracy will go unchecked and will soon destroy our film industry. We appeal to you to kindly look into this matter urgently as this is the most important request from our industry to you,” he added.
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