As the fight between film producers intensifies, poet, director, lyricist and producer Sreekumaran Thampi shared a post on social media. In every field of work, the one who invests money is the capitalist and the one who works and gets paid is the worker. However, in the film industry, the situation is the opposite. In a Facebook post, he said crores have to be paid for an actor and should beg them to act in our film.

His FB post
In any field of work, the one who invests money is the capitalist and the one who works and gets paid is the worker. However, in cinema, the situation is the opposite. There, the one who invests money is the worker and the actor who works and gets paid a lot is the capitalist. A situation where crores have to be paid, and should beg them.

Even the choice of the heroine and technicians in his film should be based on the wishes of the actor. I will never say that actors should not make their own films. Of course, they should enter the production industry. Only then will they understand the situation of a producer.

I am not posting this as a poet or a director. I am posting this as a producer who has produced over two dozen films on his own and has suffered financial losses and humiliation.