The row of comments between the AP Government and Tollywood is escalating day by day with both sides making strong statements against each other. Right after YCP MLA Prasanna Kumar Reddy’s controversial statement, the Telugu Film Producers Council issued a statement. The Kovur MLA during a meeting said that the film industry is full of arrogant individuals who just seek to fill their pockets. The entire industry is based out of Hyderabad, then why should AP Government look to help them.
In a strongly-worded statement, TFPC stated that:
“It is unfortunate that the honorable MLA has such an impression of the film industry. The success rate in the film industry is 2-5%. Film producers spend crores of rupees to make films and more often than not, they suffer huge losses. There are a few producers who have lost everything and are taking a pension amount of Rs 3000 per month from the Producers’ council. That is how dire the situation can be. It is not right to speak ill of the film industry and its people,” said the statement.
Now, producer NV Prasad has also released a rather strong statement on the Kovur MLA and said that the minister’s statements are rather irresponsible and made out of half-knowledge. He welcomed the MLA to come to the film sets once and see the hard work that it takes to make a film.
NV Prasad also added that the film industry towards the resolution of the problem and has been following all the guidelines of every G.O. It is also abiding by the decisions made by the committee formed to resolve the issue. In such a situation, co-operation from the government would be the best way to resolve the issue and such statements would only worsen the situation.
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