Netaji Film Does not Get Screening in Madhya Pradesh

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Netaji Film Does not Get Screening in Madhya Pradesh

`Bose` doesn\'t get a screening in MP

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Bhopal: Shyam Benegal's biopic on the charismatic and controversial

freedom fighter Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose might have been adjudged

one of the best for the recently announced National Film Awards but

it is clearly not a selling proposition in Madhya Pradesh.

 

Bose - The Forgotten Hero has not even got a screening in the state,

till date, because no distributor - most of whom are based in Indore -

picked it up.

 

With films flopping one after another, exhibitors and distributors

are becoming picky about the films they promote. And a film on Bose

is clearly not worth the risk. "People do not go to theatres to watch

such movies so no distributor of Indore has bought the film. The

movie may be great, but distributors are doubtful about the returns,"

say the distributors who feel that they might have bought the rights

if it was made tax-free.

 

"Such movies have very limited audience and hence the government

should help," says Rakesh Narula, manager of a popular cinema hall in

Bhopal. "No distributor bought the rights of this film in Madhya

Pradesh. I do not know the exact reason. "But these days distributors

and film hall owners are incurring heavy losses and have therefore

become very choosy. They do not go for movies unless high profits are

not guaranteed."

 

Biopics and Madhya Pradesh clearly don't go together. Narula said the

same thing had happened earlier with the three films on the life of

freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. "All the three movies were well-made

but few distributors in Madhya Pradesh bought the rights of the

movie."

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