As someone who keenly follows the developments in the Malayalam film industry, I thought it might be worthwhile to write a post on the ongoing AMMA (Association of Malayalam Movie Artistes) — MACTA (Malayalam Cine Technicians Association) face-off.
First things first: Where is (that bad actor) Dileep? It was he who triggered the showdown by backing off from a Thulasidas film after having pocketed the advance signing amount. The reason? Dileep thought it was not smart on his part to work with a director who hasn’t made a hit film in a while. To quote from a PTI report: “The whole issue cropped up when Dileep, who was to act in a film being directed by Thulasidas, refused to play his role after taking an advance, allegedly because Thulasidas’s last film was a flop.” Hello, who can remember when Dileep himself was last seen in a good, let alone successful, movie? The guy’s career is floundering because he refuses to do the one thing he is good at — comedy — and instead insists on working with directors who wouldn’t even have dreamt of casting him if he hadn’t approached them first. That said, Dileep has found alternative ways to stay afloat. He takes more than a passing interest in the booming real estate sector in Kochi. And he craftily offered to produce the multi-starrer Twenty:20, which is sure to rake in the moolah owing to sheer star power. Oh, Dileep is also one of the vice-presidents of AMMA. Ha! Anyway, he seems to have purposely opened a can of worms and stealthily disappeared from the scene.
Meanwhile, with MACTA general secretary Vinayan proving once again that he is a foul-mouthed, pigheaded (literally!) person with a huge inferiority complex, (apart from being the most awful director in the history of Malayalam films) the split would have happened sooner or later. With several members resigning, MACTA is as good as dissolved. Actor Innocent, who has been president of AMMA since its inception, while speaking at a recent meeting, is reported to have said, “It is high time that MACTA closed its open door, or else more and more technicians inside may jump out through it.” A new organisation is on the anvil. As a friend said, I really ought to give a clearer picture, but owing to time pressure, I will direct you to this Sify report instead. It’s fairly informative. Cheers to Malayalam cinema.
First things first: Where is (that bad actor) Dileep? It was he who triggered the showdown by backing off from a Thulasidas film after having pocketed the advance signing amount. The reason? Dileep thought it was not smart on his part to work with a director who hasn’t made a hit film in a while. To quote from a PTI report: “The whole issue cropped up when Dileep, who was to act in a film being directed by Thulasidas, refused to play his role after taking an advance, allegedly because Thulasidas’s last film was a flop.” Hello, who can remember when Dileep himself was last seen in a good, let alone successful, movie? The guy’s career is floundering because he refuses to do the one thing he is good at — comedy — and instead insists on working with directors who wouldn’t even have dreamt of casting him if he hadn’t approached them first. That said, Dileep has found alternative ways to stay afloat. He takes more than a passing interest in the booming real estate sector in Kochi. And he craftily offered to produce the multi-starrer Twenty:20, which is sure to rake in the moolah owing to sheer star power. Oh, Dileep is also one of the vice-presidents of AMMA. Ha! Anyway, he seems to have purposely opened a can of worms and stealthily disappeared from the scene.
Meanwhile, with MACTA general secretary Vinayan proving once again that he is a foul-mouthed, pigheaded (literally!) person with a huge inferiority complex, (apart from being the most awful director in the history of Malayalam films) the split would have happened sooner or later. With several members resigning, MACTA is as good as dissolved. Actor Innocent, who has been president of AMMA since its inception, while speaking at a recent meeting, is reported to have said, “It is high time that MACTA closed its open door, or else more and more technicians inside may jump out through it.” A new organisation is on the anvil. As a friend said, I really ought to give a clearer picture, but owing to time pressure, I will direct you to this Sify report instead. It’s fairly informative. Cheers to Malayalam cinema.
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