Director Prem Kumar is highly talented and impressed the audience with his first film 96. Earlier, he worked as a cinematographer ,but as a director, 96 brought him immense fame. Later, the film was remade in Telugu too. Prem’s second film Meiyazhagan also performed well, at the box office but the revenues are not as promising as they expected. In a recent interview, he blamed the reviewers for killing the cinema.
Some time back, in a recent interaction at a directors’ roundtable, Prem Kumar openly stated that the review writers are killing the culture of cinema with targeted reviews and negative propaganda. In a recent interview, he stated that the review writers have mental illness.
“If Meiyazhagan took in Malayalam, the Tamil audience could have celebrated it. We didn’t get the revenue that we expected. Reviewers are more threat than piracy. Some have a mental illness. I don’t have any fear of reviewers, that’s why I’m speaking,” said Prem Kumar.
Prem Kumar received some criticism with regard to Meiyazhagan, that it is too slow and does not have a story. A lot of reviewers in Tamil called the film average, while the general audience loved the movie unanimously. Having said that, the film is a disappointment in terms of collections, which Prem Kumar regrets.
Prem Kumar has an opinion that the film could have made more money if it had been released in Malayalam. It has been the opinion across languages, and even some Telugu filmmakers also often feel that if a film releases in Malayalam and gets dubbed in Telugu, it would perform well.
On that note, the problem with some reviewers exists everywhere, and the Tamil producers approached the court to place a ban on the reviews but it did not work for them.
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