Posted:
16 years ago
Pongal damp squibs!
By Moviebuzz
Thursday, 24 January , 2008, 16:43
The new year has started on a bad note for the Tamil film industry as all
the Pongal releases have turned out to be duds at the box-office!
Industry analysts are shocked that none of the films even got a good
opening, and most of them started wobbling from day-one itself. Says a
prominent Chennai theatre manager: "It is shocking that Pongal film
collections nose-dived during the first week itself, there was no pressure
to get tickets from the public and films which opened in large number of
theatres are cutting down the number of screens in the second week."
A distributor from Madurai says: "2008 Pongal is the worst in recent
times; people were just not interested in seeing films in towns and
villages as they had better fare on television. And some of them which
were aimed at B & C centers were the worst of the lot, as they bombed
miserably in these circuits. Our directors and stars should realize a bad
film will do badly all over irrespective of small or big station!"
The trade and industry experts say that one of the main reasons for the
failure of the films was "lack of content, rehashing of earlier hits, and
there was nothing new in presentation."
