After `Kurukshetra', Mohanlal's  next  big budget film `Sagar alias Jacky' is in the shadow of a tug of war between producer and  theatre owners on the issue of `minimum guarantee'. The film was scheduled to release on March 26. At this time the  Kerala Film Exhibitors Federation [KFEF] has threatened not to screen 'Sagar alias Jacky', if the film's producer went ahead with his plan of demanding 'minimum guarantee' from the cinema theatres. "The cinema theaters affiliated to our association will not release the film if the  producer and distributor of the film Antony Perumbavoor asks us to give a certain amount as the minimum guarantee, " KFEF president P.V.Basheer Ahmed told reporters on Saturday at Calicut. He explained that according to the 'minimum guarantee' system, the proprietor of a theatre has to advance a huge amount to the distributor and if the film failed at the box office, the former would have to incur the losses. "Such a system was tried by distributors in Tamil Nadu while releasing super star films but was later withdrawn" he said. "At a time when Malayalam cinema is going through a crisis, the practice of ' minimum guarantee' cannot be encouraged'', Basheer said. He also requested the government to allow theaters to increase service charge.

Labels: Maamukoya, Sagar-Alias-Jacky

Banner : Minerva Crations
Name of the film : Malbar Wedding
Main cast : Main cast : Indrajith, Gopika, Janardhanan, Maamukoya, Manian Pillai Raju, Anup Chandran, T. P. Madhavan, K.T.S Padannayil, Githa Salam, Atlas Ramachandran, Manka Mahesh, Zeenath and others
Camera : Vel Raj
Producers : T Santosh Kumar and KB Devraj
Directors : Rajesh - Faisal

Labels: Bijukuttan, Gopika, Indrajith, Janardhanan, Maamukoya, Manian-Pilla-Raju, Suraj-Venjaramoodu