Super Star in & as LINGAA ♠Anushka ♠ARR ♠KS Ravikumar

[vijeeshgovindhan]

Though unwilling to say anything against Rajini, the pressure of repaying loans has got to the fans, “It’s not easy for us to talk about how our Thalaivar’s movie tickets did not get sold out for the first show. The problem is that all of us in the fan club are from struggling families and we had taken Rs 4 lakh on loan at a hefty interest to buy the tickets up front. When we lost nearly half of that amount, we had to get it back from the theatre owners,” said a member of the Mettupalayam Rajinikanth Fans Welfare Association, the reluctance in his voice replete. This particular fan club lost Rs 2.04 lakh on the first show tickets and has managed to receive two payments of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 94,000 within a week from the owner of Sivasakthi theatre.Fans from Pattukottai are even more distraught because they had taken money from loan sharks amounting to Rs 7.70 lakh to buy the first tickets, “The responsibility to sell those tickets was on us. After taking away the complimentary tickets and so on, we were only pricing them at Rs 300-400, but even with that only 1,600 of the 4,600 seats were filled,” said a letter from N Thirunavukarasu, Town Secretary of the Fan Club there. They lost a whopping Rs 4.10 lakh on the first day and sought help from the distributor asking for a refund. Irony stems from the fact that the man who repaid that Rs 1 lakh is R Singaravadivelan, who is the spearhead of all the anti-Rajini protests.

In spite of all this, Rajini fans will still be Rajini fans. Even as the distributors have announced March 1 as the date for their begging protest outside the actor’s Poes Garden residence, die hard fans like Nellai G Karthikeyan are on the warpath - announcing a counter strike on “any and every protest against their kadavul”.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/stat...cle2677437.ece

[Anban]

Now fans are conspiring against the super star. They have links with politicians, that's the reason. They want to bring down Rajni's fame.

[irir123]

I have heard of people taking loans for education/medical treatment etc - but taking loans from loan sharks to buy cinema tickets when one's family is struggling? seriously?? monumental levels of stupidity

[leosimha]

I have heard of loans for education/medical treatment etc - but taking loans from loan sharks to buy cinema tickets when one's family is struggling?seriously?? monumental levels of stupidity

true...wish Rajinikanth had advised these type of fans much earlier "if he had known"...now that it has come in the media and it would have come to known to Rajini (if he hadn't known all these years) it would be best of Rajini to advise his fans...

[irir123]

true...wish Rajinikanth had advised these type of fans much earlier "if he had known"...now that it has come in the media and it would have come to known to Rajini (if he hadn't known all these years) it would be best of Rajini to advise his fans...

hmm - I dont think Rajini (or for that matter anyone else) have to tell his fans not to take loans - their job is to act and it ends there - in a professional setup - I have indeed heard of fans in some parts of chennai spending substantial part of their family's monthly income to watch movies during the week of release - thats bad/horrible enough - but taking loans to watch your favorite star's film is taking things to an entirely different level of disbelief - utter nonsense - if they are struggling because of this, let them suffer - its their fault - its not as if Rajini came out asking them to take loans to watch his films

[leosimha]

hmm - I dont think Rajini (or for that matter anyone else) have to tell his fans not to take loans - their job is to act and it ends there - in a professional setup - I have indeed heard of fans in some parts of chennai spending substantial part of their family's monthly income to watch movies during the week of release - thats bad/horrible enough - but taking loans to watch your favorite star's film is taking things to an entirely different level of disbelief - utter nonsense - if they are struggling because of this, let them suffer - its their fault - its not as if Rajini came out asking them to take loans to watch his films

well...I did expect a reply like this from you... guess you forgot to add one more point that Rajini wouldn't ask his fans to watch his movie...it is up to that person's wish whether he wants to watch it or not...

[m_23_bayarea]

hmm - I dont think Rajini (or for that matter anyone else) have to tell his fans not to take loans - their job is to act and it ends there - in a professional setup - I have indeed heard of fans in some parts of chennai spending substantial part of their family's monthly income to watch movies during the week of release - thats bad/horrible enough - but taking loans to watch your favorite star's film is taking things to an entirely different level of disbelief - utter nonsense - if they are struggling because of this, let them suffer - its their fault - its not as if Rajini came out asking them to take loans to watch his films

Well, superstars (at least in our state) do thrive on this nonsense and stupidity though!

[Avadi to America]

Everyone wants to make quick money...... anyone can buy the bulk ticket and sell it in retail (theater counter). every distributor and theater owner part of the crooked busines to extract money from fans/people.....ticket prices are much higher in local theaters than multiplex....No legitimate business......a pathetic state of an industry....

[thamiz]

Though unwilling to say anything against Rajini, the pressure of repaying loans has got to the fans, “It’s not easy for us to talk about how our Thalaivar’s movie tickets did not get sold out for the first show. The problem is that all of us in the fan club are from struggling families and we had taken Rs 4 lakh on loan at a hefty interest to buy the tickets up front. When we lost nearly half of that amount, we had to get it back from the theatre owners,” said a member of the Mettupalayam Rajinikanth Fans Welfare Association, the reluctance in his voice replete. This particular fan club lost Rs 2.04 lakh on the first show tickets and has managed to receive two payments of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 94,000 within a week from the owner of Sivasakthi theatre.Fans from Pattukottai are even more distraught because they had taken money from loan sharks amounting to Rs 7.70 lakh to buy the first tickets, “The responsibility to sell those tickets was on us. After taking away the complimentary tickets and so on, we were only pricing them at Rs 300-400, but even with that only 1,600 of the 4,600 seats were filled,” said a letter from N Thirunavukarasu, Town Secretary of the Fan Club there. They lost a whopping Rs 4.10 lakh on the first day and sought help from the distributor asking for a refund. Irony stems from the fact that the man who repaid that Rs 1 lakh is R Singaravadivelan, who is the spearhead of all the anti-Rajini protests.

In spite of all this, Rajini fans will still be Rajini fans. Even as the distributors have announced March 1 as the date for their begging protest outside the actor’s Poes Garden residence, die hard fans like Nellai G Karthikeyan are on the warpath - announcing a counter strike on “any and every protest against their kadavul”.

http://www.newindianexpress.com/stat...cle2677437.ece

Is this some kind of drama against distributors and theater owners from fans? They are using the same coin against the distributors and theater owners?

[thamiz]

Everyone wants to make quick money...... anyone can buy the bulk ticket and sell it in retail (theater counter). every distributor and theater owner part of the crooked busines to extract money from fans/people.....ticket prices are much higher in local theaters than multiplex....No legitimate business......a pathetic state of an industry....

Singaravelan did not tell about all these? I thought he is very honest!